Riverside ‘Open for Business’ with 260-Acre Office and Industrial Innovation Project City Names Briarcliff Development Co. to Lead Horizons

Riverside on Tuesday named a unit of Briarcliff Development Co. to develop Horizons, a 260-acre site at Interstate 635 and Missouri 9, and unveiled a plan calling for a park-like setting to be home for a projected 5,900 jobs over the next generation.

Briarcliff Development said construction would begin this year on an estimated $12 million plan, including 25 acres of lakes, three miles of tree-lined canals and land set aside for public use and recreational purposes that is projected to connect to the Missouri River Trail.

“Riverside is open for business,” declared Mayor Kathleen Rose. “In the years since the state-of-the-art Missouri River levee was built to protect hundreds of acres in our community, we focused on creating the best possible economic development initiative for land the city owns. We have that today.”