When the Rock Island Bridge began its next life as the nation’s first entertainment district over a river, the vision was bold, but the real estate framework had to be just as inventive. To turn a single historic rail structure into a destination with distinct dining, gathering, and community spaces in Kansas City, Kansas, the project needed legally defined parcels where none had ever existed. BHC supported that transformation by preparing the original plat for the property and later finalizing the recorded condominium plat, establishing individual parcels on the bridge itself. The result was a clear, recordable path to ownership and development, solving the unique challenge of creating legal parcels above a river.