It was built in 1971 and is located at 15 Market Square in uptown Saint John.

[3][4] Additionally, the City Hall's tower building features 180,000 square feet of office space.

[1] After the Great Fire of Saint John in 1877, the next City Hall was built in 1878.

[6] The current City Hall, built by private Toronto-based development company Corporation Eighteen Ltd.,[7][8] was built at a cost of $6 million (equivalent to $45.1 million in 2023) and featured 17 stories,[9][10] though it now only has 16.

[11] Claude Roussel's design of three aluminum columns painted red, orange and yellow at the exterior entrance of the City Hall was chosen, much to the dismay of some members of the public as well as Saint John Mayor Bob Lockhart, who called the design a "disaster and a personal disappointment.