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Fontainebleau Las Vegas Opens After Years of Delays

The long-stalled Fontainebleau Las Vegas finally became a reality last week with a star-studded grand opening that included Tom Brady, Cher, Justin Timberlake and other celebrities on hand. The 67-story hotel-casino is one of the biggest in Las Vegas, spanning 25 acres and 9 million square feet, featuring about 3650 hotel rooms, 550000 square feet…

Industry ・ 21 December 2023

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The tallest hotel in Las Vegas finally welcomes guests after sitting empty for 10 years

The tallest hotel in Las Vegas has finally opened its doors after a sitting empty and unfinished for more than 10 years. The 67-story Fontainebleau hotel-casino tower is the sister property of the iconic Fontainebleau Miami Beach in Florida, with the Las Vegas outpost - on the city's glittery resort corridor - costing $3.7 billion to build, second…

Travel ・ 19 December 2023

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Blockbuster Las Vegas Strip casino resort opens after long wait

The long wait for the opening of the Fontainebleau Las Vegas casino on the Strip is finally over, as the first customers will visit the resort on Wednesday night. The 67-story luxury resort and casino is reported to be the tallest occupiable building in Nevada and includes 3644 rooms and suites, a 14000-square-foot fitness center, a…

Land-based ・ 14 December 2023

AP News

Newest, bluest resort on Las Vegas Strip aims to bring Miami Beach vibe

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A developer's drive to open a Las Vegas Strip resort with a vibe echoing Miami Beach's venerable Fontainebleau reaches reality on Wednesday, with the opening of a 67-story hotel-casino tower that became famous as it sat unfinished for more than a decade. "Bringing Fontainebleau Las Vegas to life has been an extraordinary journey,"…

Land-based ・ 13 December 2023

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Grand Opening for 'Cursed' Casino at Heart of Vegas Strip

The Las Vegas Strip will welcome its newest icon today with the grand opening of the long-awaited Fontainebleau Las Vegas Hotel & Casino. Almost 20 years in the making, the 67-story glass monolith that sits at the north of the Las Vegas Strip has been blighted by floods, fires, and financial frustrations over a nightmare, decades-long construction…

Land-based ・ 13 December 2023

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Newest, bluest resort on Las Vegas Strip aims to bring Miami Beach vibe to southern Nevada

LAS VEGAS -- A developer's drive to open a Las Vegas Strip resort with a vibe echoing Miami Beach's venerable Fontainebleau reaches reality on Wednesday, with the opening of a 67-story hotel-casino tower that became famous as it sat unfinished for more than a decade. "Bringing Fontainebleau Las Vegas to life has been an extraordinary journey," said…

Land-based ・ 13 December 2023

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Fontainebleau Las Vegas opens Wednesday. Here’s what it means

If you look hard enough, you can find bow ties in the most unusual places at the Fontainebleau. The new resort-casino's logo is on the carpets, in the shape of the wayfinding signs and repeating patterns in chandeliers, on drawer handles in rooms, on trash cans and in the shapes of sofas and banquet hall chairs. The bow ties are an homage to…

Travel ・ 10 December 2023

World Casino News

Fontainebleau Las Vegas To Officially Open On December 13

After a timeline of 16 years since construction officially began, Fontainebleau Development, the initial developer of Fontainebleau Las Vegas, has finally received regulatory validation to officially open the Strip resort, an investment worth $3.7 billion. New gaming license: 4 hearings before Nevada gaming regulators and 4 validations, the…

Land-based ・ 21 November 2023

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The Las Vegas Strip is fading all those concerns of a consumer slowdown

The early report out of the casino industry's heavyweight G2E Global Gaming Expo is that trends in Las Vegas are not showing any major signs of slowing down, despite the macroeconomic backdrop. Wells Fargo analyst Daniel Politzer said meetings with management from Caesars Entertainment (NASDAQ: CZR) at G2E indicated that Las Vegas seems to be…

Land-based ・ 12 October 2023

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Fontainebleau on Las Vegas Strip is biggest hotel project in U.S.

Towering over the north Strip, Fontainebleau Las Vegas has not only been in the works for a long time, it's by far the biggest hotel being built in the nation. But as a reminder of the intense competition here, several other casino-resorts on Las Vegas Boulevard can house more guests. Boasting 3000-plus rooms, the Fontainebleau is the largest…

Land-based ・ 12 February 2023

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Fontainebleau Las Vegas Secured $2.2B to Ensure Project Completion

Image Source: Shutterstock.com A long-delayed casino resort slated to appear on the Las Vegas Strip is set to finally complete construction work after securing a $2.2 billion loan from a group of banks and other investors. Fontainebleau Las Vegas, developed by a partnership between Fontainebleau Development and Koch Real Estate Investments (KREI),…

Land-based ・ 28 December 2022

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Hard Rock deal ends casino strike threat in Atlantic City

ATLANTIC CITY - The Hard Rock casino reached agreement with Atlantic City's main casino workers' union Saturday, removing the last threat of a strike during the busy holiday weekend and clearing the way for the gambling halls and their workers to concentrate on bouncing back from financial losses during the coronavirus pandemic. Local 54 of the…

Land-based ・ 14 December 2022

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Last-minute deal averts casino strike in Atlantic City

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - The main union for Atlantic City casino workers reached agreements on new contracts with four casinos on Thursday, providing for what one its president called "the best contract we've ever had" and labor peace that will avoid a strike on Fourth of July weekend, one of the casinos' busiest of the year. Local 54 of the…

Travel ・ 26 September 2022

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Resorts CEO Named New Chief Of Atlantic City Casino Group

With 40 years of experience in an Atlantic City casino industry that itself is only 44 years old, Resorts Chief Executive Officer - and Atlantic City native - Mark Giannantonio was an obvious choice to be named as the new president of the Casino Association of New Jersey. The announcement last Thursday accompanied the departure of former Hard Rock…

Travel ・ 16 August 2022

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Atlantic City Casino Strike Threats All But Over

On Saturday night, Hard Rock Atlantic City casino officials agreed to a new labor agreement with the Unite Here Local 54 union, matching the ones reached two days earlier with Borgata and the three Caesars Entertainment casino properties, Caesars, Tropicana, and Harrah's. Bally's and Ocean casinos had agreed before the strike threats to a "me too"…

Land-based ・ 05 July 2022

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Hard Rock Deal Ends Casino Strike Threat in Atlantic City, NJ

The Hard Rock casino reached agreement with Atlantic City's main casino workers union on Saturday, removing the last threat of a strike during the busy holiday weekend and clearing the way for the gambling halls and their workers to concentrate on bouncing back from financial losses during the coronavirus pandemic. Local 54 of the Unite Here union…

Incidents ・ 03 July 2022

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4 Atlantic City casinos reach deal with union, avert strike

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - The main union for Atlantic City casino workers reached agreements on new contracts with four casinos on Thursday, providing for what one worker called "big raises" and labor peace that will avoid a strike on Fourth of July weekend, one of the casinos' busiest of the year. Local 54 of the Unite Here union reached…

Land-based ・ 01 July 2022

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Friday strike deadline looms for 4 Atlantic City casinos

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - The main union for Atlantic City casino workers reached agreements on new contracts with four casinos on Thursday, providing for what one worker called "big raises" and labor peace that will avoid a strike on Fourth of July weekend, one of the casinos' busiest of the year. Local 54 of the Unite Here union reached…

Land-based ・ 01 July 2022

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Hard Rock casino's charitable donations top $1M in 4 years

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Atlantic City's Hard Rock Hotel & Casino marked its fourth anniversary on Tuesday by making donations to four local charities, putting the casino's total charitable donations past the $1 million mark. The casino donated $10000 each to the Atlantic City Rescue Mission, CASA of Atlantic and Cape May Counties, Avanzar and…

Jobs ・ 28 June 2022

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Atlantic City's History of Casino Strikes

The last labor strike at an Atlantic City casino ended disastrously for all concerned - Trump Taj Mahal shut its doors in September 2016, with owner Carl Icahn blaming the strike for the closure and the loss of nearly 3000 jobs. That marked the fifth of 12 casinos in the city to shutter within two years. Six years later, the same union - Unite Here…

Jobs ・ 27 June 2022

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Casino workers to commence picketing in Atlantic City

In Atlantic City and the Local 54 branch of the Unite Here trade union has reportedly announced that its members are to begin picketing outside of the Tropicana Atlantic City property after it failed to reach new employee contracts with the city's casinos. According to a Tuesday report from the Associated Press news service, the action is set to…

Travel ・ 01 June 2022

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Las Vegas’ Fontainebleau has new message: “Miracles still happen”

After a tumultuous history with years of not knowing what would happen to the building, Las Vegas' Fontainebleau has a message: "Miracles still happen." That's the wording on a new billboard along Las Vegas Boulevard near the towering project that also features the resort's name and logo. Many locals might consider it a miracle that the…

Covid ・ 14 April 2022

The Street

Long-Awaited Las Vegas Strip Hotel May Finally Get Built

While the Las Vegas Strip contains some of the most iconic hotel/casinos in the world, it also has its share of failures. Nearly every major property sits on the site of a once-iconic brand that outlived its day, became dated, or just lost out to the glitz and glamor of whatever new mega-resort casino gets built. In just the past few months, we've…

Land-based ・ 05 February 2022

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Construction underway at Fontainebleau Las Vegas

A visible sign of construction - a crane - has landed at Fontainebleau Las Vegas. Activity has been underway for some time at the long-unfinished hotel-casino project on the north Strip, which now has an "fb" logo near the top of the tower, work trucks on site, Fontainebleau Las Vegas signage along its fencing, and other signs of construction. This…

Land-based ・ 04 February 2022

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Fontainebleau Las Vegas Casino Set to Open in Q4 2023

The Fontainebleau Las Vegas casino resort is set to open in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to Fontainebleau Development, the developer of the project. Construction has begun on the luxury casino resort at 2777 S. Las Vegas Boulevard, which will clock in at 67 stories tall. The project will fulfill Fontainebleau Development's long-term goal…

Land-based ・ 19 January 2022

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Construction Resumes on Fontainebleau Las Vegas

The sky is finally clearing at the long-dormant Fontainebleau Las Vegas site as construction revved up again yesterday on the project that commenced nearly 15 years ago. Jeffrey Soffer's Fontainebleau Development plans to open the hotel and casino at the end of 2023, ahead of the 2024 Super Bowl landing in Vegas. Located on 25 acres at the north…

NFL ・ 23 November 2021

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Fontainebleau Las Vegas sets late 2023 for opening

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - It's been more than 15 years since the first shovel went into the ground at the Fontainebleau hotel and casino site on the north end of the strip. This morning, the current developers, Fontainebleau Development and partners Koch Real Estate Investments, held a "commencement ceremony" at the 3700 room hotel-casino site at 2777…

Land-based ・ 09 November 2021

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Former Fontainebleau and Drew Las Vegas project to open Oct. 2023

arriott International's website says the former Fontainebleau and Drew project on the Las Vegas Strip, which it calls the JW Marriott Las Vegas Blvd, will open in October 2023. The unfinished 63-story hotel has been sitting on the north end of the Las Vegas Strip for years after construction stalled that originally began in 2006. When completed, JW…

Land-based ・ 22 July 2021

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Trump’s First Atlantic City Casino Is Imploded, And Spectators Marvel At The Symbolism

The Trump name was officially vanquished Wednesday from the town that brought the former president so much fame, fortune, and failure, as the long crumbling Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in the heart of Atlantic City was finally imploded. Donald Trump's three Atlantic City casinos all ultimately fell into bankruptcy and were sold, but after he…

Land-based ・ 17 July 2021

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Trump Plaza Hotel And Casino To Be Impoded Wednesday At 9 A.M.

Welp, if you've seen one ex-president's former crown jewel casino getting imploded after months of back and forth between an auction house, a charity, a billionaire, and Bette Midler, you've seen them all. And yet here we are, as Wednesday at 9 a.m. will mark the grand finale of the most schadenfreude-y casino implosion imaginable, the taking down…

Land-based ・ 16 February 2021

Las Vegas Magazine

The STRAT celebrates 25 memorable years in Las Vegas

When charismatic gambler and businessman Bob Stupak opened his Stratosphere hotel and tower in 1996, Las Vegas celebrated with him. Stupak had started his Las Vegas hotel- and casino-owning days downtown in 1971, converting the Vault casino into Glitter Gulch, and installing the iconic Vegas Vickie neon sign (now on display at the new Circa Resort…

Sports ・ 04 February 2021

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MGM's New CFO Had a Hand in Tanking Caesars

After two failed attempts to acquire online gambling partner Entain, MGM Resorts International named Jonathan Halkyard as its new chief financial officer Thursday. Presumably, MGM, parent company of online sportsbook BetMGM, brought Halkyard on for his experience in mergers and acquisitions in the wake of the rejection of the company's $11 billion…

Industry ・ 19 January 2021

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Bidding To Blow Up Trump Plaza Hotel And Casino Balloons To $175,000

The price to press the button that will blow the former Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino to smithereens later this year has ballooned to $175000. To date, 15 online bids have been placed for the auction to implode the Atlantic City Boardwalk eyesore, with 15 days to go before the auction goes live at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 19, complete with an…

Land-based ・ 19 January 2021

The Oklahoman

City to auction spot to push demolish button on Trump casino

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - One of President Donald Trump's former Atlantic City casinos will be blown up next month, and for the right amount of money, you could be the one to press the button that brings it down. The demolition of the former Trump Plaza casino will become a fundraiser to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City that the…

Land-based ・ 19 January 2021

St. Louis Today

Implosion of former Trump casino pushed back a few weeks

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - The implosion of one of President Donald Trump's former Atlantic City casinos is being delayed by a few weeks. Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small said Thursday that the demolition company handling the job told the city the former Trump Plaza casino cannot be brought down as scheduled on Jan. 29. A more likely date is…

Land-based ・ 19 January 2021

The Sydney Morning Herald

Want to blow up a Trump casino? It'll set you back $US1 million (or more)

One of President Donald Trump's former Atlantic City casinos will be blown up next month, and for the right amount of money, you could be the one to press the button that brings it down. The demolition of the former Trump Plaza casino will become a fundraiser to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City that the mayor hopes will raise in…

Land-based ・ 19 January 2021