The City of Edmonton is seeking ideas on how to transform the site of the decommissioned Rossdale power plant in Edmonton’s Central River Valley.

The historic landmark is also sacred space for Edmonton’s Indigenous people.

“We have about 30-31 people that are buried there from Papaschase,” said Chief Calvin Bruneau, Papaschase First Nation, some whose ancestors are also buried at the site.

The land once home to fur trading sites was where First Nations gathered in the 1800s.

In the 1930s, construction started on the Rossdale power plant and was completed in the 50s. But the site was fully decommissioned in 2012, and the building has bee empty since then. The power plant designated a provincial historical resource.

As the city begins to repurpose the empty building, the River Crossing

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