Harbour Passage Extension Will Feature Public Art Piece With ‘Oversized Tin Cans’
SAINT JOHN – Projects to enhance the city’s waterfront, big and small, are well underway this week.
Of course, there is the highly visible the demolition of a former Coast Guard building to make way for the new home of the New Brunswick Museum. But the city has also begun to construct an extension to Harbour Passage that will see the popular walking trail continue past the Diamond Jubilee Cruise Terminal to Tin Can Beach area in the South End.
The new section of the Cranberry Trail will have park furnishings, light standards and landscaping to match the existing portions of Harbour Passage. A public art piece designed by the Glenn Group will also be installed at the corner of Charlotte and Broad Streets that will feature three oversized tin cans wrapped in scenes of the Saint John Harbour.
“Harbour Passage has always been about the journey of discovery and connections to the waterfront,” said Dann Glenn, principal of the Glenn Group, in a release. “The new sculpture plaza will provide a place to rest and reflect on the evolution of this waterfront neighbourhood, which is represented in three images on stacked barrels – an ode to the City’s popular Tin Can Beach.”
An interpretive panel will accompany the sculpture that will explore the origins of development in the Saint John’s South End.
The cost of the extension is approximately $550,000 and is jointly funded by the City of Saint John and the Federal Public Transit Infrastructure Fund, which supports active transportation projects.
The extension is expected to be finished this fall.
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