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The city of Montreal has unveiled the winning design for a long-talked-about $67.1-million project to build a public space and winter ice rink in the Quartier des spectacles neighbourhood near Clark St. and Ste-Catherine St. W. downtown.

The 5,000-square-metre space, dubbed Esplanade Clark, is to serve during the summer months as an “urban terrace” with food stands and seating and other outdoor furniture that promotes relaxation, the city said in a statement issued on Sunday.

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From November to March, the area will transform into an outdoor refrigerated skating rink, the city said.

Construction is to begin this fall and finish in the late fall of 2019, the city said.

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The funds for the project come from a federal-provincial infrastructure program, the Building Canada Fund–Quebec Program.

The area, which is west of Clark St. and between Ste-Catherine St. and De Maisonneuve Blvd., is currently vacant.