Editing Bowling Green, Kentucky (section)

===21st century===
[[File:BGChamber.JPG|thumb|The new Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce building was one of the first parts of the Downtown Redevelopment Project to reach completion.]]

In 2012, the city undertook a feasibility study on ways to revitalize the downtown Bowling Green area. The Downtown Redevelopment Authority was formed to plan redevelopment. Plans for the project incorporated Bowling Green's waterfront assets, as well as its historic center and streetscape around Fountain Square. It also proposed a new building for the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce, construction of a Riverwalk Park where downtown borders the Barren River, creation of a new public park called Circus Square, and installation of a new retail area, the Fountain Square Market.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.downtownbg.org/accomplishments/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509181336/http://www.downtownbg.org/accomplishments/|url-status=dead|title=The District - Accomplishments<!-- Bot generated title -->|archive-date=May 9, 2008|access-date=May 27, 2021}}</ref>

As of spring 2009, the new Chamber of Commerce, Riverwalk Park, and Circus Square have been completed. The Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center, a facility for arts and education, broke ground in October 2009 and celebrated its opening night on March 10, 2012, with a concert by [[Vince Gill]].<ref>[http://www.theskypac.com/event/opening-night-vince-gill] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315023044/http://www.theskypac.com/event/opening-night-vince-gill|date=March 15, 2012}}</ref>  Ground was broken for the Fountain Square Market in 2012.

In 2005, an effort was made to incorporate a Whitewater Park into the downtown Bowling Green riverfront at Weldon Peete Park. Due to the recession, the project was not funded.

In 2011, the Bowling Green Riverfront Foundation expanded its efforts to develop land on the opposite side of [[Barren River]] from [[Mitch McConnell]] Park (which is located alongside the U.S. 31-W Bypass and the riverbank, between Louisville Road and Old Louisville Road), upriver to Peete Park. The new plans include use of the adjacent river for white-water sports—the stretch of river includes rapids rated on the [[International Scale of River Difficulty]] between Class II and Class IV—as well as a [[mountain biking]] trail, a bicycle [[pump track]], and a [[rock climbing]] area.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bgriverfront.org|title=Bowling Green Riverfront Foundation|access-date=June 25, 2016}}</ref> Some of this facility will be located on a reclaimed landfill, which had served as Bowling Green's garbage dump for many years.