The 63-story tower was 70 percent finished when the recession stopped construction. The site near the Circus Circus and SLS hotel-casinos, as well as the Las Vegas Convention Center, has been dormant since 2009, about two years after privately held Fontainebleau Resorts LLC began work on the $2.9 billion, 3,900-room project. “The structure here is so well-conceived, even from nine years ago, that there are a lot of possibilities for us to put our imprint from a design standpoint on that property.” “It is going to be a design-forward building, and when we bring it all together, people are going to say, ‘I really want to come back,'” Steven Witkoff, chairman and CEO of the real estate firm, told The Associated Press ahead of the announcement. The new luxury property, which will feature a casino and approximately 4,000 rooms and suites, announced Monday that it also will be home to the Strip’s first JW Marriott. The hulking, bluish casino-resort, which has sat unfinished on the Las Vegas Strip since 2009 and became a poster child of the Great Recession, is now scheduled to open in late 2020 under a partnership between hospitality giant Marriott International and New York-based global real estate firm Witkoff. LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Fontainebleau is no more.
