The station provides service to the Government Centre part of the downtown core and the neighbourhood of Wîhkwêntôwin.

In June 2021, Edmonton City Council voted unanimously to remove the name 'Grandin' from the station, due to Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin's active involvement in Canada's Indian residential schools system and the cultural genocide of Indigenous peoples.

The escalator and stairs at the south end of the platform connect to a pedway system that provides access to several government buildings near the station.

It was designed by artist Sylvie Nadeau, and it was donated by the Francophone jeunesse de l'Alberta.

[8] After criticism from local First Nations activists that the Nadeau mural could be interpreted as celebratory of the Indian residential schools system, local artist Aaron Paquette was commissioned to create a second "response" mural from a First Nations cultural perspective.