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Originally Posted by DyAm00394
Land Sale Announcement | West Side Saint John
1857 Manawagonish Road, Saint John, New Brunswick
https://sjcommercialre.com/2026/04/02/land-sale-announcement-west-side-saint-john/
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”PMK Holdings Limited is proud to announce the sale of a 19.94-acre development parcel on the west side of Saint John.
Ideally situated, the property boasts sweeping views of Irving Nature Park and the unspoiled 49-acre Saints Rest Marsh–F. Gordon Carvell Nature Preserve. A remarkable natural setting defined by forest, beach, and salt marsh ecosystems.
Spanning more than 19 acres, the site presents significant development potential for its new owner, Island View Village Inc. planning on building roughly 1,580+ apartment units.
The vendors, Larry Kingston and Gail Kingston, are longtime residents of the surrounding area and played a key role in developing several homes along Manawagonish Road. They look forward to seeing how the new ownership will bring this highly desirable, water-view property to life.
This sale represents another positive milestone in the ongoing growth and transformation of Saint John’s west side".
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That’s quite the ambitious proposal, wow.(AI slop or not lol)
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Originally Posted by dhottawa729
Unsustainable….Equivalent to four 40-storey buildings if you were to locate all that housing in an area with walkable amenities like Uptown SJ. Instead, will generate 656 and 572 car trips during the weekday morning and afternoon peak hours, respectively, at full build-out. Source: ITE Trip Generation Manual.
Why is nobody taking advantage of the high-rise incentive uptown? This suburban stock will satisfy the housing demands for a long time leaving no residual demand for increased density in the core.
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Imagine how much nicer this would look/ how much less land would be used if it was spread across 15-20+ storey towers with underground parking. The view from even 10 storeys up here would be incredible.
I’m with you that there’s a huge opportunity for high rise development within the Uptown core and other core adjacent areas, but this area isn’t exactly too far from the city centre (less than 10 minutes away from Uptown Saint John). I think there’s many people who’d rather live in a high rise apartment or condo in an area like this with a spectacular view and walking distance to multiple ocean beaches, nature reserves, etc… instead of a high rise within the uptown core and having to deal with all the disruptions that come with living Uptown.
It would be very good to see more ambitious proposals like this put forward for West Saint John… as if we can continue to grow the population of the city on this side of the river, we will have much more influence within the federal riding we’ve been put in (that is currently a mostly rural riding) … or it will result in further redistricting that puts us back within an urban riding.
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