The Riverwalk: The Building

The system was built in stages over two decades, and the banked course of the building stands here at the strengths the parks file assigned it, with the last stage raised to the builder's own record. By 2003 the south-bank walk and the three footbridges to Kamm Island were largely complete — the island that John Kamm's brewery ground made, tied to the bank it faces. Beutter Park, the loop's centerpiece ground at the old Uniroyal riverfront, opened in 2004. In 2008 the Central Park–Battell Park link and its cable-stay bridge closed the north-side gap; visitors call that bridge the "Mishawaka Suspension bridge," and the conflict between the visitor name and the structure's kind prints here as the parks file left it. In 2009 the final west phase joined Lincoln Park and Kate's Garden. The riverfront build-out of the following decade — the Ironworks ground, the event and ice facilities, the new City Hall quarter — proceeded on the loop's banks as park and civic fact, and stands in the parks file. In 2015 the walk was extended the full length of Central Park, past the Hospice campus to Cedar Street.

The closing stage is documented at builder strength. Larson-Danielson Construction, the general contractor, with DLZ as designer, began the east extension in June 2022: the walk carried from Race Street to Cedar Street, and at its end a new park, Marvin's Garden, built as the loop's east bookend to Kate's Garden at the west. The construction project cost $4 million on the builder's statement. The dedication came on Thursday, 5 October 2023, with city officials and citizens joined by members of the 1954 Milan High School state championship team and Mary Lou Wood — the garden honors Marvin "Marv" Wood, the Milan coach who moved to Mishawaka in 1969, whose coaching record stands in the sports and halls files; here he is a trail fact, the namesake of the ground where the loop now ends. With that dedication the Logan-to-Cedar course stood complete, and the city's own parks page — read in November 2026 — presents the whole course in the present tense: the Riverwalk path through Central Park, Beutter Park, and Battell Park as one walking and biking ground, Kamm Island's footbridges and new park facilities in place, the Robert C. Beutter Riverfront Park named for the former mayor's riverfront work.