Harbour Passage - Phase 1 - Loyalist Plaza

completed

Of the 5 kilometers of waterfront in the City of Saint John’s Central Peninsula neighborhood, more than 90% of it is currently inaccessible. This project will extend the City’s waterfront boardwalk and harbor passage system, effectively doubling the amount of accessible waterfront in Uptown Saint John. This key transportation and recreational infrastructure will improve connections from the waterfront to the rest of the harbour passage trail system, enhancing linkages between the City’s Central Peninsula, the North End and the West Side. The harbour trail extension will encompass a roughly 20 to 30-foot-wide public space system along the edge of the Fundy Quay property and the Market Square boardwalk, spanning roughly 850 metres in total length and roughly 11,000 square metres in area. Phase 1 will connect from Smyth Steet to King Street and the Fundy Quay property with approximately 300 metres of linear trails and small meandering walkways. An additional 150 metres of trail will be constructed on the Fundy Quay property, for a total of 450 metres in phase 1 and an approximate area of 8,500 square metres. This will help to rehabilitate the deteriorating downtown boardwalk system, and reroute the existing trail system at Loyalist Plaza to integrate with new sections. The trail system will include ancillary public spaces at Loyalist Plaza to provide public amenities and to encourage usage of the trail system, including amenity space along Market Square, the central destination of the trail system.