Downtown St. John's, truly one of the most unique destinations you will ever experience. A place where old-world charm mixes with a bustling business core in the oldest commercial district in North America. Downtown St. John's is the most easterly Downtown in Canada and North America.
Downtown St. John's Business Improvement Area (BIA) was created in September 1989 as a self-help mechanism organized and operated by local business. The mandate of Downtown St. John’s is to make the downtown core a more attractive place to live, work, shop, and visit while preserving and enhancing downtown as the dominant commercial centre of St. John’s. We strive to recognize the important balance between the office, retail, hotel, service, and industrial sectors of the area while working to preserve its historic and traditional character.
Downtown St. John's represents more than 500 businesses and services and is committed to the revitalization of the area and the preservation of the historic and traditional character of the downtown. Great dining, shopping, art galleries, museums, music and most of all, great people.
Downtown St. John's, the heart and soul of the City.