AHI begins at Blindman Industrial Park, Red Deer County

Milestone retrospective. This entry was written and published in September 2026 as part of the campus timeline; the date shown is the period it describes, not a release date.

In November 2020 Havenz Smart Communities began planning AHI on industrial land inside Blindman Industrial Park, an established heavy- and medium-industrial park in Red Deer County on Highway 2A — a few kilometres from the QEII and at the midpoint of the Calgary–Edmonton corridor. That land is the foundation of what is now AHI, the AI Hub of Innovation.

The choice was deliberate. Blindman is an industrial park in a heavy-industrial corridor that needed an anchor — not farmland that needed converting. The site sits inside industrial zoning (Business Service Industrial district), among yards, shops and energy-services businesses, with the City of Red Deer to the south and the Town of Blackfalds to the north.

The fundamentals that made Alberta the right province were already in place: continent-scale gas from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, a deregulated power market that suits behind-the-fence generation, a northern climate that gives free cooling for most of the year, and a stable, pro-development Canadian jurisdiction.

That decision began a multi-year planning discipline: integrated master planning, environmental reviews and research into best practice, ahead of any construction.

AHI — AI Hub of Innovation is developed by Havenz Smart Communities (Lead Developer) in partnership with Turning Stone Developments (investment partner); both are general partners of AHI. Statements about future capacity, dates and milestones are forward-looking and subject to approvals, capital and change; nothing in this article constitutes an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy securities. Growth beyond the first phase is a master-plan objective subject to its own permits and studies. Third-party names describe roles and imply no endorsement. See Important information.