Uptown is home to entrepreneurs of all sizes, large multinationals, hundreds of shops and businesses and is the service center for Southern New Brunswick. Uptown shops specialize in unique and high quality products including original gift items such as jewelry, fashions, antiques and fine art. The quality and number of multi-ethnic restaurants providing a variety of culinary experiences is very impressive.
Saint John was twice named "Canada's Premier City for Business" by the Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine and "The Best City in Atlantic Canada" by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
In addition, over 100,000 tourists visit the City each year.
More than 50,000,000 people (Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Boston, New York) live within a single day's drive.
- More than 8,100 people call the uptown peninsula home.
- Greater Saint John has more than 120,000 residents.
- Cruise ship passengers expected to exceed 180,000 in 2008.
- Based on a 1999 study, cruise ship passengers spend approximately $85 each.
- Average of 38,000 meeting and convention delegates each year contributing $28 million a year to the economy.
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