This winter, Fountain Square's ice skating rink will move to a new home

CINCINNATI — This year, winter festivities downtown are expanding and Fountain Square's annual ice skating rink will move two blocks away.

According to a press release from 3CDC, the ice rink that's normally set up each year at Fountain Square, near the giant holiday tree, will instead be moved to a new plaza created at Elm Street, next to the Duke Energy Convention Center. The convention center is currently undergoing a $264 million renovation that also closed down Elm Street to create a large pedestrian-only plaza.

The Elm Street Plaza spans over 2 acres and, when renovations are complete, will become an extension of the convention center that can be used for large events and meetings. But 3CDC says when the convention center isn't using the plaza, it will coordinate programming.

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