Fairmount Drive bisects the neighbourhood from north to south and Chinook Centre is located northwest from the community.

William Standish (1851– 1920) and his wife, Ellen Maria (née Greer), homesteaded on the southeast quarter before they eventually relocated to Priddis.

Toppler Bowling Lanes, a landmark business in the shopping centre, was one of its original tenants when the mall opened in 1962.

Major business complexes include Fisher Park (1970), Phillips Industrial Mall (1971), and Heritage Hill Plaza (1973).

The former industrial bakery at 231 Forge Road SE, built in 1961 to house Honeyboy Bread, became a Moose Lodge in the 1980s and the Hungarian Canadian Cultural Association in the 1990s.

The next building to the west, 134 Forge Road SE, was built in 1967 and in 2017 became the headquarters of Chabad Lubavitch of Alberta, part of a worldwide Hasidic Jewish movement.

Industrial development began in 1940, when the federal government acquired a 200-acre parcel from Burns in the service of Canada’s Second World War effort.

To meet wartime demand for explosives, Ottawa established Alberta Nitrogen Products Limited and built its massive ammonia and ammonium nitrate plant.

Before long, alternative materials for explosives manufacture were developed, and in 1943 the plant was partly converted to produce fertilizers.

After the war, Ottawa sold the complex to Cominco (as Consolidated Mining and Smelting was eventually renamed) which operated it as a fertilizer plant.

The developer is expected to transfer a 44-acre parcel along the Bow River as a wildlife preserve following review and contaminant remediation.

Heritage Partners planned to expand Deerfoot Meadows to include The Bluffs, comprising office and luxury residential towers on the ridge below Blackfoot Trail, and the Village at the Deerfoot Meadows, a high-end shopping complex north of the existing mall.