The Intercity Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

1, was expected to make the Highland Park area of St. Paul extremely desirable.

As part of the planned development, St. Paul expanded the original street, Edsel Avenue, and renamed it Ford Parkway.

The bridge project was designed by a committee of politicians and engineers from both Minneapolis and St. Paul and chaired by Charles M. Babcock, Minnesota's first commissioner of highways.

It was not until after World War II that the desired growth in the Highland Park area resulted from the bridge.