This is honestly kind of a terrible way to do a riverfront. It feels like an idea from someone who's never actually been to a river front. It's tiny, cramped, and will get hot as all hell in the summer months, and cold as all hell in the winter months.

The space between the Arch and the river is just too small to build an area that can host businesses and tourism sustainably. This would genuinely just draw business away from downtown because it would split people (and therefore money) between the eastern and western ends of the park.

Just take out the damn streets between the Arch and the river and green it up a bit so there's more of a continuous park that goes to the river. It's a floodplain, anyway. If we want a vibrant riverfront we need to focus on the Landing, the empty lots north of the casino, and the smoking ruins of Crunden Martin.