Each restaurant creates a custom burger with flavours and fusions from around the world, and you get to vote for your favourite. Plus, during the month of March, if you post pics of your burgers you’ll be entered to win a gift card from one of the participating restaurants. Use the tag #DTBurgerBattle2025 and #lovedowntownstjohns to be entered to win. It’s that easy!
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With over 40 competitors, we’re serving up mouth watering burgers all month long.
Visit https://downtownstjohns.com/signature-events/burger-battle/ to check out all the amazing burgers!
The Downtown Safety Coalition (DSC) is leading a multi-point action plan to improve the safety of everyone who works or visits downtown. One point of this plan is the deployment of private security patrols downtown. Our goal of the program is to provide foot patrol seven days a week supplemented by a mobile unit.
The next phase of the program began in February and will run until the end of May. Work is currently underway on the Summer/Fall 2025 phase of the program.
This phase of the project is funded by the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the George Street Association and the Downtown St. John’s Business Commission.
Independent Security Services Atlantic (ISS) will be patrolling the area highlighted below providing security and support to all persons in the downtown including the businesses that operate there. They are not a replacement for the RNC, rather they are an additional level of the security net of our community.
ISS patrol area:
Water Street from Queen Street to Prescott Street.
George Street from Beck’s Cove/Water Street to Queen Street.
Duckworth Street from Queen Street to Prescott Street.
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY CALL THE RNC BY DIALING 911
Report any suspicious activity in the downtown area to ISS and RNC.
DSC History
The Downtown Safety Coalition (DSC) is a working group formed in 2022 to tackle the complex safety issues in downtown St. John’s. This group comprises members of the Provincial Government, City of St. John’s, Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, Destination St. John’s, Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador,
George Street Association, Downtown St. John’s, and Music NL.
DSC is leading a multi-point action plan to improve the safety of everyone who works or visits downtown. One point of this plan is the deployment of private security patrols within the Downtown St. John’s Business Commission district. Phase 1 concentrated on George Street and ran from July to November 2023. Since February 2024, patrols have included a larger portion of the area, from Prescott Street to Queen Street on Water Street and Duckworth Street. Our goal is to provide foot patrol seven days a week supplemented by a mobile ISS unit.
This phase of the project is funded by the Provincial Government, the George Street Association and the Downtown St. John’s Business Commission. It’s supported by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, Destination St. John’s, Hospitality NL, the City of St. John’s and Music NL.
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Motorists are advised that snow removal and/or street widening operations are scheduled from Wednesday, February 12 2025 at 11:00 pm until Thursday, February 13 2025 at 6:00 am, and vehicles must be removed during snow removal operations. To avoid being ticketed or towed, vehicles should be moved. The streets highlighted below are within the Downtown St. John’s Business Commission area:
1. Adelaide St (New Gower St to Water St)
2. Bates Hill (Queen’s Rd to Duckworth St)
3. Cathedral St (Queen’s Rd to Duckworth St)
4. Church Hill (Gower St to Duckworth St)
5. Cochrane St (Duckworth St to Water St)
6. Duckworth St (Quidi Vidi Rd to Queen’s Rd)
7. George St (Queen St to Water St)
8. Hill O’chips (Duckworth St to Water St)
9. Holloway St (Gower St to Water St)
10. Mcbride’s Hill (Duckworth St to Water St)
11. Prescott St (Duckworth St to Water St)
12. Queen St (New Gower St to Water St)
13. St. John’s Lane (Duckworth St to Water St)
14. Temperance St (Duckworth St to Water St)
15. Water St (Temperance St to Waldegrave St)
For updates, please visit https://map.stjohns.ca/snow.
Vehicles impeding the snow removal operation will be removed and impounded at the owner’s expense. The towing and administration fee is $250, and the impounding fee is $25 each day the vehicle is held in storage. If proof of registration and insurance is not provided, the vehicle can only be towed (not driven) from the impound lot.