Partners on AHI — AI Hub of Innovation · Red Deer County, Alberta
Turning Stone Developments stands at the forefront of AHI — the Métis-led, Indigenous-owned Lead Investor and general partner bringing generations of development, business and negotiation strength — in partnership with Havenz Smart Communities as Lead Developer of the campus.
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Who Turning Stone is
Turning Stone Developments is an Indigenous-owned infrastructure firm based in Calgary — Métis-led, privately held, and built to develop revenue-generating infrastructure with First Nations, not around them. Community benefit is written into the ownership structure from day one.
Turning Stone sits where few firms can: between institutional capital and community-led projects that have to close. The filter on every project is shared value — First Nations in a real ownership position, and institutional-grade returns. If a structure cannot do both, it does not go forward.
That standard is exactly why Havenz chose Turning Stone — and why Turning Stone chose AHI.
Leadership
Ron Maurice is one of Canada’s most accomplished Indigenous business leaders. In 2002 he founded Maurice Law — Canada’s first Indigenous-owned national law firm — and built it over two decades into the country’s leading advocate for historic Treaty and Aboriginal rights claims, with billions secured for First Nations clients and a national practice spanning claims, litigation, trusts and wealth creation, and corporate governance.
That is the calibre of partner standing behind AHI: decades across Indigenous law, treaty rights and economic development — and the negotiation and business judgment that only generations of that work can build.
Background summarized from mauricelaw.com.
First Nations at the centre
Turning Stone’s involvement means AHI is structured the way national infrastructure should be: Indigenous-led, revenue-generating, and built so the benefit stays in community for generations.
Partnership begins with respect — for the Nations, the land and the generations of stewardship behind both. Engagement is led by Indigenous leadership, on Indigenous terms.
Real ownership positions, procurement pathways, careers and revenue participation — economic participation designed in from day one, not added later.
Long-term stewardship and capacity that stays in community — governance seats, operating skills and institutional relationships that outlast any single project.
How Turning Stone structures — applied on AHI
A dedicated Indigenous-opportunity portal across all four AHI pillars — energy, data, food and job security — is part of the campus plan. Nations, communities and counterparties are engaged directly and respectfully; nothing on this page implies any Nation’s endorsement of any specific transaction.
The flagship, together
On 119 titled acres in Red Deer County, the partnership pairs on-site power with high-density AI infrastructure — 10 MW in construction today, 30 MW as the plan of record, a 300 MW-class master plan† and a 1 GW-class pathway† — with Indigenous economic participation and ownership built into the general partnership itself.
Indigenous ownership and governance · First Nations partnership network · capital relationships · negotiation and business strength honed over generations · scaleable vision.
Development execution as Lead Developer of AHI — land, approvals, engineering, delivery ecosystem, operations through AHI Management, and the platform to replicate what works.
A permitted, appraised ($382.8M), revenue-designed campus where energy security, data security and community benefit share one title — and one aligned partnership.
† 300 MW-class and 1 GW-class figures are master-plan and pathway objectives, not completed facts; growth proceeds in phased 10 MW increments subject to approvals, capital and milestones.
Selective by design
Turning Stone applies one filter to every project: shared value — real Indigenous ownership and institutional-grade returns, or it doesn’t move forward. Havenz applies the same discipline through its site checklist, stage labels and verification register.
Two selective partners choosing each other is the strongest signal either can send. AHI is where those two standards met — and the model both intend to carry into the next project, and the one after that.
Partner with the partnership
Turning Stone Developments and Havenz Smart Communities — one partnership, one flagship, one standard.
Partnership descriptions on this page use project-approved language. Turning Stone Developments’ brand marks are used with the partnership’s permission for AHI. Nations, communities and counterparties are engaged directly and respectfully — nothing on this page implies any Nation’s endorsement of any specific transaction.