Irving Oil Home Office

This was not the first time Irving Oil had planned to build a headquarters in Saint John. Previously, the company intended to build a $30 million headquarters on Saint John's Long Wharf but cancelled these plans in 2010.^[10] On October 21, 2015, it was officially announced that the Irving Oil Home Office would be constructed on one of their employee parking lots next to the Imperial Theatre.^[5] Landscape architect Alex Novell and the architectural firm B+H Architects was hired by Irving Oil to design the building,^[11] with the aim being to relocate approximately 1,000 Irving Oil employees from five separate offices into one large office building.^[12] Construction was scheduled to begin in April 2016, but plans were delayed due to an appeal regarding the proposed building site's location within Saint John's heritage conservation area, which imposed specific building limitations.^{[13][14][15][16]} The city council revised the heritage rules with respect to the proposed site to facilitate the project's continuation.^[17] Construction began on the morning of June 6, 2016,^[4] with an expected completion date between 18 and 24 months from then.^[18]

On February 6, 2018, 33-year-old construction worker, Adam Carleton, died in the hospital after receiving a head injury from a fall in the construction site the previous day.^[19][20] WorkSafeNB launched an investigation to determine if the death had violated the Occupational Health and Safety Act.^[21][22]

In March 2019, employees began relocating to the home office,^[23] and it officially opened in the fall of the same year.^[24] In 2020, Service New Brunswick assessed the building's value for taxes at $56.8 million, significantly lower than the estimated construction cost of $88 million.^[25]

• Irving Oil website