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Rainbow-coloured balls to return to Montreal Gay Village
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The iconic rainbow-coloured balls that were once strung across Ste-Catherine Street in Montreal’s Gay Village will return, according to an announcement from the city today.
From 2011 to 2019, 180,000 suspended balls graced the street, as conceived by the late Quebec landscape architect Claude Cormier.
The return of the installation is part of a $200-million redevelopment of Ste-Catherine East from Berri to De Lorimier, set to begin in the fall of 2027 and end in 2030.
The plan was previously announced by the Plante administration, but Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada’s team has tweaked the project to include the balls, and possibly not guarantee year-round pedestrianization, as the mayor suggested in today’s press conference.
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