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Plans for a new National Hockey League arena and events centre in downtown Ottawa have taken a major step forward with the National Capital Commission announcing that it will sell off 4.5 hectares of land in the city’s LeBreton Flats area.

The NCC and Capital Sports Development Inc. (CSDI), a group led by the NHL’s Ottawa Senators , released a joint statement Monday on an agreement in the long-running effort to develop a stadium to replace the 29-year-old Canadian Tire Centre.

The Senators have played at the facility, located about 20 kilometres west of downtown Ottawa, since 1996.

The site central to Monday’s agree

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