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There is a lot more to RendezVous LeBreton’s $3.5-billion plan for LeBreton Flats, dubbed IllumiNation LeBreton, than just a new home for the Ottawa Senators.

It also offers a café-lined waterscape, an optional new central library building, innovative light and holographic features, parks and gathering spaces, and enough green cred to win over the most ardent environmentalists.

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Though the plan contains five distinct neighbourhoods and numerous high rise buildings, more than half the site – which includes both the 9.3-hectare primary lands offered for development by the National Capital Commission and the 12.3-hectare “option lands” – will be devoted to 11 distinctive open space areas.

If chosen by the National Capital Commission, the project would take more than two decades to complete. But construction could start as early as 2018, and the new arena could be ready by 2021, with several other key elements finished by 2026.