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Fontainebleau Las Vegas is a US$2.9 billion, 3,889-room, 68-story unfinished hotel/condo-hotel/casino development near the north end of the Las Vegas Strip on the site previously occupied by the El Rancho and Algiers hotels in Winchester, Nevada. It was intended to be a sister property to the well-known 1950s-era Fontainebleau Miami Beach. The building is currently the second tallest in the Las Vegas Valley. The project, upon completion was expected to include: a casino, a spa, 3,300-seat performing arts theater, 1,018 condo-hotel units, of retail space, of indoor and outdoor conference space, nightclubs, and 24 restaurants and lounges. The building was designed by Carlos Zapata Studio with Bergman Walls Associates as the architect of record. Groundbreaking was officially announced to have begun on April 30, 2007. Gaming revenue on the Las Vegas Strip peaked at the end of October 2007. The tower was topped out in November 2008. ==Bankruptcy== Fontainebleau Resorts CEO Glenn Schaeffer, the former chief financial officer of Mandalay Resort Group, which generated record profits before it was sold to MGM Mirage in 2005, left Fontainebleau Resorts without comment in May 2009. Schaeffer was primarily responsible for securing more than US$3 billion in loans for the project. Also, Bank of America, the resort's largest lender, refused to provide financing on its committed line of credit for the project around this time; as a result, the resort's operator, Fontainebleau Las Vegas LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June 2009. In a move seen as an attempt to force creditors to supply funding, Fontainebleau's owner sued himself in the form of the general contractor suing the hotel ownership company - both controlled by the same individual, Turnberry Associates CEO Jeffrey Soffer. Construction work has stopped on the project, which is about 70 percent complete; the grand opening had been scheduled for October 2009. In July 2009, the resort sought permission in bankruptcy court to cancel events that were scheduled for the first half of 2010, as well as permission to cancel a lease for office space which was to be used for Fontainebleau's employee recruitment center. In October 2009, Penn National Gaming was considering purchasing the partially completed resort and the of land for US$300 million. At that rate the land was being sold for US$12.25 million per acre. Two years earlier land was going for over US$30 million per acre on the Strip. Over US$2 billion has already been invested in the topped-out building on the site. Penn National has been looking for an opportunity to enter the Las Vegas gaming market. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fontainebleau Resort Las Vegas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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