Boston’s often-barren City Hall Plaza will be redecorated with picnic tables, a skating path and holiday shopping market under an agreement with Delaware North Cos.

The city is contracting with the TD Garden owners on the three-year program to add street festivals and vendors to the 8-acre plaza. The contract began Sept. 1, with the first step being installation of new seating and shaded picnic tables. The 11,000-square-foot ice path will be installed after Thanksgiving and remain through February.

The holiday market will include local and international food and beverage vendors occupying individual “chalets,” Boston Mayor Martin Walsh’s office said. A “Beer Garden on Bricks” program will be sponsored by the Main Streets Foundation.

Events programming will be developed by the city in collaboration with Delaware North Cos. subsidiary Boston Garden Development Corp., Rink Management Service Corp. and Millennial Exhibitions.

The licensing agreement gives the city a percentage of the profits from all programming on the plaza. A copy of the contract was not immediately available from the city, but the Boston Globe reported that Boston Garden Development Corp. will pay the city a $50,000 flat fee or a percentage of profits, whichever is greater.

Boston-based Utile Architecture and Planning is studying permanent improvements to the plaza as part of Walsh’s “Rethink City Hall” initiative.