It is a steel girder bridge, built as part of the Circle Drive freeway system in southwestern Saskatoon.

The bridge was scheduled to open with the completion of the entire Circle Drive South project on September 30, 2012.

However, record rainfall, high water tables and an early snowfall made that deadline unfeasible.

The city council originally decided that a naming contest would be held[7] but then scrapped the idea because of the cost.

Graham-Flatiron countered that the city caused the delays because it was too slow with environmental audits, design reviews and approvals, and the handover of land.