KC Streetcar Riverfront Pavilion Progressive Design-Build

Our team is providing progressive design-build services for a pavilion for the KC Streetcar’s extension to the Berkley Riverfront District. The CPKC Pavilion at KC Berkley Riverfront Station is sited just south of the Missouri River, near mixed-use development and CPKC Stadium, home of the Kansas City Current women’s professional soccer team.

Inspired by the Missouri River and its ever-shifting qualities of reflection, movement and flow, the new pavilion enhances Kansas City’s civic infrastructure, creating a gateway for the streetcar that connects downtown, the starter line and the surrounding neighborhoods.

The project transforms the heart of the Berkley Riverfront District through improved multimodal transportation and thoughtful placemaking, offering generous pedestrian gathering and crowd circulation areas. Visible from the Bond Bridge, Heart of America Bridge and Buck O’Neil Bridge, the pavilion serves as an iconic beacon for the riverfront. Its design balances architectural expression, safety, operational efficiency and comfort — elevating a functional transit stop into a memorable civic experience.

Imagined as ripples frozen in time, the pavilion captures the spirit of the river through a series of abstract gestures. The mirror-polished stainless-steel soffit echoes the movement of people passing beneath it, while sculpted concrete “pebbles” anchor the space, evoking the texture of the riverbed below. Slender light poles rise like reeds emerging through the water’s surface, illuminating the pavilion at night and animating it by day. Together, these elements create a composition of reflection and rhythm — a place where the movement of the river and the life of the city converge.