Downtown St. John’s is open for business.
Stores and shops on Water Street are celebrating the end of construction for the season, with a construction tape cutting ceremony this morning.
Gaylynne Gulliver with Downtown St. John’s says businesses have been patient with the tear-up and while things went well overall, they’re glad to have the work done for the season.
She says downtown businesses are tough and made the best of it knowing that the project had to be done.
Gulliver says clever signs acknowledging the work seemed to generate some positive response and construction was not without its surprising discoveries.
Those included 74 human teeth – believed to have been discarded by someone employed to pull them out – bits of pipe and old cobblestones.
This morning’s ceremony is set for 9:45 at the intersection of Beck’s Cove and Water Street.