Mothballed Las Vegas Strip casino-hotel on market for $650 million
The vacant Fontainbleau Las Vegas.
The billionaire investor who bought the unfinished Fontainebleau Las Vegas out of bankruptcy in 2010 for $150 million is offering to sell the long-mothballed casino-hotel for $650 million.
CBRE Las Vegas executives John Knott and Michael Parks said Wednesday that their firm is listing the 63-story tower at the north end of the Las Vegas Strip for property owner Carl Icahn and his firm, Icahn NV Gaming Acquisition.
Construction of the $2.9 billion, 3,900-room property stopped in 2009, about two years after privately held Fontainebleau Resorts began work in February 2007.
County lawmakers last week ordered part of the 730-foot tower covered up to mask unsightly gaps in the blue-glass facade.
Officials assured the Clark County Commission that monthly inspections have found no structural risks.
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