{"id":721650,"date":"2026-06-07T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721650\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:43:09","slug":"st-johns-council-approves-water-street-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721650\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John\u2019s Council Approves Water Street Demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/157-water-street.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"St. John's Council Approves Water Street Demolition\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">157-163 Water Street has been approved for demolition by St. John&#8217;s City Council (via Google Maps).<\/p>\n<p>St. John\u2019s city council has approved a heritage report related to the demolition of a number of buildings on Water Street.<\/p>\n<p>Council previously <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/04\/22\/297268\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">voted against<\/a> a motion to grant the property at 157-163 Water Street heritage status, which would have protected the structures from the wrecking ball.<\/p>\n<p>However, the staff report has determined that any new structure erected on the site maintain a number of heritage features that would maintain the historic character of the street and surrounding neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>The report recommended taking pictures and maintaining some of the property\u2019s\u00a0\u201ccharacter defining elements\u201d\u00a0including the general look of the building and a pedestrian\u00a0walkway linking Water Street with Harbour Drive.<\/p>\n<p>The motion was carried.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; 157-163 Water Street has been approved for demolition by St. John&#8217;s City Council (via Google Maps). St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-721650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}