{"id":765535,"date":"2026-06-27T21:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765535\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T21:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:47:13","slug":"heritage-group-takes-fight-for-limeville-to-downtown-pedestrian-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765535\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Group Takes Fight for Limeville to Downtown Pedestrian Mall"},"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\/limeville.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Heritage Group Takes Fight for Limeville to Downtown Pedestrian Mall\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(via Change.org petition)<\/p>\n<p>People concerned about the loss of built-heritage character in The Battery will march through the Downtown Pedestrian Mall this afternoon to raise awareness of the issue.<\/p>\n<p>At hand is a plan to replace the old Alderdice property\u00a0(Limeville) with a residential development which includes 25 housing units.<\/p>\n<p>The group \u201cProtect the Gateway to the Battery\u201d will form at Harbour Drive\u00a0this afternoon and march through the mall to City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>They have a petition going before the House of Assembly to designate Limeville as a\u00a0historic site. That petition can be signed at the Battery Cafe.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson Erin Callahan says the Alderdice property is not the only one under threat \u2013 Memorial University wishes to divest itself of two significant structures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to continue having community marches and gatherings because we\u2019re also concerned about what\u2019s going to happen with the Signal Hill campus and the GEO Centre,\u201d says Callahan.<\/p>\n<p>The march begins in the east end of downtown at 2:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (via Change.org petition) People concerned about the loss of built-heritage character in The Battery will march through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-765535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765535","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=765535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}