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The oft-delayed completion date for the Mordecai Richler gazebo on Mount Royal has been delayed again. Work on the gazebo will have to cease for the winter, and will resume in the spring, city officials said Friday. They could not give an estimate on when it could be completed.

The price for the reconstruction of the former music pavilion built in 1928 remains $593,000 “for the moment,” public relations official Renée Pageau said.

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Last March, Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre promised the gazebo would be finished by the end of the summer. Then unexpected construction issues, like the presence of lead paint and a weak foundation, stopped the restoration in July. It resumed in late summer. In August, Coderre promised the work would be finished by late September or early October. Or by the end of 2015 at the latest.

On Friday, Pageau said it was “premature” to speculate on the completion date, “but with winter at our door, it appears the work will have to continue in the spring.”