Stepping up to the podium in front of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, Fontainebleau Development President Brett Mufson made a tongue-in-cheek promise to regulators.
“I assure you, those windows are going to be closed up pretty soon,” Mufson joked, referencing some remaining exterior work-in-progress visible from the street.
His passing comment reflects the deep interest that Las Vegas has had in the resort’s development, a story that’s been written in fits and starts since the project was first announced in 2005. Some locals are so tuned into the project that they watch construction for progress and delays.
Roughly six weeks away from its Dec. 13 opening, the $3.7 billion Fontainebleau Las Vegas is closer than it has ever been to welcoming the public inside. Its past was plagued by financing woes and ownership changes that came to define the building as a symbol of the Great Recession on the Strip skyline. But in two years since Jeffrey Soffer – the man behind the original project pitch – reacquired the 737-foot-tall building on the North Strip, a new vision for the glittering blue building has emerged.
