Urban Renewal


  • Urban Renewal Saint John Update

    Urban Renewal Saint John Update

    I have received several posts on the book, and I don’t know how anyone can still get a copy, but for historical purposes, and that fact that my other post is one of the most popular sites here is some of the content from the former website for the book that is no longer online.


  • Urban Renewal Saint John (Book Website)

    Urban Renewal Saint John (Book Website)

    URSJ.ca Screenshot

    Created for Brenda McDermott to promote and sample her book on the Urban Renewal period of Saint John. The website can still be found at http://www.ursj.ca.


  • Urban Renewal Saint John

    I was walking through the market this weekend when I saw taking with elderly ladies talking with the clerk at Baleman’s in the Saint John City Market holding this article. It was nice to see the interest as I have been working with the author on her website at http://www.ursj.ca.


  • Dead or alive…

    I was just uptown and thinking about the talk of recent in Saint John about the growth and prosperity about to hit the city. I don’t really want to be a neigh-say-er but I just can’t imagine Saint John ever living up to its potential. The mentality of the people is one of the biggest drawbacks. It is the greatness of the “littlest city” syndrome the keeps the rose colored glasses, from seeing the realities the global economy is going to be in recession very shortly and I feel that the current growth can sustain and are set the repeat the last boom “Urban Renewal” / “Super Block” / Millidgeville / Shopping Centres projects from the 1960’s – early 80’s.