[Moncton] Shediac Developments

[MonctonRad]

That new five storey mixed use building on Main Street in Shediac (where St. Louis Bar & Grill is located) has secured another commercial tenant. I think this means they will be at 100% commercial occupancy (correct me if I am wrong).

Get ready, Shediac! Paborito Asian Market – Asian Grocery Store is opening its doors this September!

Stay tuned to our Facebook page for the official announcement of our grand opening day—you won’t want to miss it!

Find us at 353-8 Main Street, Shediac, NB (E4P 2A5)
Landmark: Right across from St. Louis Bar & Dollarama
We can’t wait to welcome you to Paborito Asian Market this September!

[J81]

Originally Posted by MonctonianSentinel01

ArcelorMittal from Luxembourg.
https://corporate.arcelormittal.com/

Thats it! Thank you!

[Beaubassin]

I tried to sum up all the new construction in Shediac since 2019 using PAOL NB and the latest satellite imagery. I'm surprised by the amount of rowhouses being built. If you use the average 2.4 persons per households in Canada, this would house around 3750 people. I think Shediac will hit 15,000 with the new municipal borders in around 5 years if the growth keeps up. Hopefully the 2026 census uses the new municipal borders.

[MonctonRad]

Nice work!

I would not be surprised at all if Shediac surpasses Riverview in population within the next 10-15 years.

Riverview is about 22,000 and has a fairly modest growth rate. Shediac is burgeoning.

If Shediac were added to the Moncton CMA, it would boost the CMA population up to about 210,000 or so.

[MonctonRad]

A request has been made to allow for construction of two small generic apartment buildings on South Cove Road:

A request was submitted for the construction of two multi-unit residential buildings on the property bearing the PID 70687454, located on South Cove Road in Shediac. Each building will contain two storeys and 12 residential units, for a total of 24 units on the lot.

https://plan360.ca/media-planning/meetings/SE-PRAC-Report-25-1628.pdf

[MonctonRad]

These announcements were made as deliberations began on the town's 2026 budget:

The town said several capital projects are planned for 2026, including:

• Phase 2 of the Breaux Bridge Street extension, extending this main artery to Ohio Road, with completion expected in 2026.
• Construction of a new main sewer line included in the 2026 capital projects program.
• Upgrades to the drinking water filtration system at the town’s water treatment facility.
• Improvements to municipal parks and the Festival Arena.

• Planning for the new recreation centre, with nearly $500,000 allocated in the budget to advance the project.

https://tj.news/moncton-miramichi/shediac-holds-tax-rate-in-2026-budget (paywall)

So, the Breaux-Bridge Road extension is planned for completion in 2026. That's big news! Shediac will finally have a second full length east/west connector!!!

[MonctonRad]

Status update for the new k-12 anglophone school off of Ohio Road:


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[MonctonRad]

Gas plant could add 5% to N.B. Power bills, documents reveal
Utility’s regulatory filings also say it will need even more natural gas turbines by 2030
Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Jan 13, 2026 6:00 AM AST | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/tantramar-gas-plant-bills-9.7042511

NB Power is holding on to the land it purchased in the Scoudouc Industrial Park for a potential second 600 MW natural gas power plant by 2030.

Several documents said N.B. Power will need another 600 megawatts of generation by 2030 and it was looking at a site in Scoudouc, near Moncton, where it could build a second plant with natural gas turbines.

The Scoudouc site was the location N.B. Power announced for the first plant in December 2024. In July 2025 it instead submitted an environmental impact assessment document for the location in Tantramar.

The document reveals that Tantramar was the first choice all along.

N.B. Power wasn’t able to contact a landowner it needed to buy land from, so it turned to the Scoudouc site even though it presented a number of time-consuming obstacles.

They included potential Indigenous archaeological sites, wetlands, watercourses and bird life that would require more regulatory approvals and the need to build 24 kilometres of transmission lines to the N.B. Power grid.

N.B. Power eventually reached the Tantramar landowner and bought the land it needed, putting the Scoudouc site aside.

But “certain long-lead studies” are still being done in Scoudouc, the May 2025 briefing note said.

The location “provides an option for additional combustion turbine development which is likely to be required at some point in the future,” according to another briefing note from the same month.

Several of the documents estimate that even with the Tantramar plant online, N.B. Power could face “a significant capacity deficiency” by 2030 and should plan to build another 600 megawatts of generation — almost the capacity of the Mactaquac hydroelectric dam.

[MonctonRad]

New school drives Shediac building permits over $111M in 2025
Town says new K-12 school on Ohio Road near Parlee Beach entrance will inspire more development
Author of the article:Alan Cochrane
Published Feb 10, 2026 • Last updated 16 hours ago • 1 minute read
https://tj.news/moncton-miramichi/new-school-drives-shediac-building-permits-over-111m-in-2025 {paywall}

In a news release, the town said the building permit for a new English-language K-12 school is valued at $61,939,387, which is more than half of the total value of permits issued in 2025. The new school will be located near Highway 15 and Ohio Road, near the main entrance to Parlee Beach Provincial Park. The town says construction of the new school will open up the area for more economic development.

“This major project will have a significant economic impact on this part of the town. Developers are already at work in this area of Shediac, and with an announcement like the school, there is, of course, more interest,” said Mr. Pellerin. “Shediac is increasingly part of the discussion among national and provincial investors.”

Regarding the second quote, there is a large cleared parcel of land immediately across the street on Ohio from the entrance to the new school, which has presumably been prepared for development. Rumours are either Superstore or Walmart. Nothing has been confirmed.

This BTW is only the second time that building permit valuation in the town of Shediac has exceeded $100M. The first time was 2023 ($105M), so, this is a new record.

So far, building permit valuations for Moncton, Riverview and Shediac in 2025 were all all time highs. Does anyone have any information on the valuation for Dieppe? I suspect this will also be an all time high.

[caidehs]

New PitaPit location opening soon in Shediac. As per pitapit Bouctouche FB page

[Tmaz]

Originally Posted by caidehs

New PitaPit location opening soon in Shediac. As per pitapit Bouctouche FB page

I wonder where? There’s still two empty units with A&W.

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by caidehs

New PitaPit location opening soon in Shediac. As per pitapit Bouctouche FB page

Rumour is in the last CRU in the new downtown mixed use building where St. Louis Bar & Grill is located.

[MonctonRad]

About two years back, there was really good intel that Lawton's Pharmacy was going to build next to the Sobeys on West Main Street.

Does anyone know what happened???

[caidehs]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

About two years back, there was really good intel that Lawton's Pharmacy was going to build next to the Sobeys on West Main Street.

Does anyone know what happened???

I am hearing the same for PitaPit same building as St-Louis.

For Lawton's the only activity I have noticed was a few large trees was cut down before winter. Located at the left side of Glenwood kitchen the plan relocation of employees new parking area. As per snb there was a new pid created at the current parking location there's no sale transfer. Maybe in spring new parking area will be completed to make room for constructions.

[MonctonRad]

There us a proposal for a new residential development on the SE corner of the Breaux-Bridge/Bellevue intersection for a total of 11 new apartment buildings, each three storeys tall, containing a grand total of 132 units, and with 185 total parking spaces.

These will be built over the next few years with completion in 2029.

Documentation:
https://plan360.ca/media-planning/meetings/SE-PRAC-Report-25-1822.pdf

These buildings are all generic clones, so I did not feel the urge to go out of my way to do screen shots and post them to an online hosting site.

[MonctonRad]

Another residential development is proposed for further north on Bellevue (on an extension of Jocelyne).

The application seeks a rezoning from the Medium Density Residential Zone (R2) to the High Density Residential Zone (R3) in order to permit the development of a multi-family residential project consisting of four separate buildings, for a total of 58 dwelling units, distributed as follows:
• two buildings containing 12 units each;
• one building containing 10 units;
• one building containing 24 units.

Both this development, and the one above seem to be spurred on by the impending extension of Breaux-Bridge to Ohio Road (improved vehicular access).

Documentation:
https://plan360.ca/media-planning/meetings/SE-PRAC-Report-25-2048.pdf

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by caidehs

New PitaPit location opening soon in Shediac. As per pitapit Bouctouche FB page

According to Jeff Boucher, opening is approaching very rapidly. Signage has been installed.

[Tmaz]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

According to Jeff Boucher, opening is approaching very rapidly. Signage has been installed.

And this is in the new building on main with Halo Donuts, etc.? I work pretty much across from the building, but I’ve never seen those windows before, must be from the back?

[MonctonRad]

This is being discussed tonight at Plan 360 (which handles Shediac's planning advisory committee work):

Proposal:

To create two new streets, the extension of Bombardier Street, Union Drive, and Generation boulevard, and a future street

A request was received to subdivide the subject property, which includes new publics roads, such as an extension to the existing Bombardier Street, and a new Street tentatively called Horizon Street that will align with a future intersection connection to the new (anglophone0) school entrance on the west side of Ohio Road. This intersection is intended to include a future round about (traffic circle) which is why the alignment has an odd shape adjacent to Ohio Road.

The land is proposed for commercial use, so the final lot layout has not yet been completed. The plan does show a new Lot 26-1 for future development purposes, as it is isolated and separated by the creation of new public streets; however, further subdivision of that land is expected, and LFPP / cash-in-lieu will be addressed at that time.

The subdivision represents the first phase of a larger commercial development in the area, where the property is predominantly zoned General Commercial. The street will be built to municipal specifications and aligns with the long-term vision of Ohio Street as a commercial entrance to the Town of Shediac. It will also support the further development of these large lots.

This site plan was included with the documentation:



This isn't particularly helpful, but, the land in question lies on the west side of Ohio Road, immediately to the north of the new anglophone k-12 school under construction. It is intended to connect to the entrance road to the school, and eventually to the neighbourhood in behind. The intent of the proposal is to create a large commercial retail park on Ohio Road with large lots for major retail development.

This could be very big for the town of Shediac if it builds out as expected.

[josh_cat_eyes]

I believe it’s actually on the east side of Ohio Road, across from the road that will connect to the school. The southwest regional service commission building is on the corner of bombardier Street and Ohio road in the bottom left of the diagram.