The Woodlands Corporation, a long-standing client of Ford, Powell & Carson, Inc., sought to turn a substantial flood control channel into an urban feature. It would link many of its more important public and private projects together, yielding an urban waterway that is both bucolic and urban along its length. Ford, Powell & Carson, was part of a two-firm effort in association with the Denver office of EDAW.

The area surrounding the waterway is a densely-wooded pine forest through much of its length except for a portion where it adjoins a large outdoor amphitheatre, a lake, and Town Center. Here, the riverbank is more hard-edged and urban in character. Given these two different types of character, there are similarities to both the Mission and Museum reaches of the San Antonio River development.

Ford, Powell & Carson's work on the waterway also includes a number of bridges as well as the vessels used as water taxis. A rendering of the water taxi and photos of the Waterway Avenue Bridge and the Six Pines bridge are shown here.