The park is part of a 32-acre (13 ha), 21-block mixed-use urban redevelopment with office and retail spaces, and residential units.

[2] The $1.3 billion project, consisting of a city park and pier and five residential, office and retail buildings, began construction in 2016.

The bathrooms installed in Vancouver are equipped with both a table for changing babies, and a bin for addicts to safely dispose of used needles.

The opposite side has an "engraved stone with a topographical map of the Columbia's origins", down which water falls into a shallow wading pool.

According to KOIN, "one-inch-deep 'river' flows 150 feet along a molded riverbed dotted with stacks of granite representing each of the Columbia's tributaries".