Fontainebleau
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No, its not pronounced “Fountain Blue”. The Fontainebleau Las Vegas, will be a spectacular $2.9 billion, 63-story, 3,889-room resort, condo-hotel, casino and entertainment destination on the Las Vegas Strip, anticipated to open in fall 2009. Fontainebleau Las Vegas will feature ramatically high ceilings, signature restaurants, 
60,000-square-foot spa, 3,200-seat performing arts theater, trendsetting retail, state-of-the-art meeting space and the world’s largest rooftop pool and club scene with incredible views directly down the Las Vegas Strip. The project encompasses 25 acres and features two dynamic entrance lobbies, one for drive-in guests off the Strip and one conveniently situated at Paradise Road near Las Vegas
Convention Center.
The forerunner of a new generation of world-class resorts, Fontainebleau Las Vegas will bring the Fontainebleau brand to Las Vegas in dramatic fashion. Embodying a spirit of classic elegance meets cool …with a touch of Zen, it will offer an aesthetic environment of light,
reflection and space. Fontainebleau Las Vegas takes its cue from Morris Lapidus, the innovative architect who designed the curvilinear Fontainebleau in Miami Beach more than a half-century ago.
Fontainebleau Resorts is led by its majority owner Jeffrey Soffer and Glenn Schaeffer. Soffer who also heads the Turnberry group of companies, one of the country’s leading real estate development firms. It is credited with the creation of more than $7 billion in commercial and residential property, including the Aventura Mall and Turnberry Isle Resort & Club in South Florida, Turnberry Place, Signature at MGM Grand and Town Square in Las Vegas, and The Residences at Atlantis on Paradise Island, Bahamas. Turnberry pioneered the category of high-rise luxury residential condominiums and condo-hotels on the Las Vegas Strip and will market approximately 1,000 condo-hotel units as part of Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
Glenn Schaeffer is recognized for concepts that have shaped Las Vegas over the past 25 years, particularly during his former tenure as president of Mandalay Resort Group and its development of Mandalay Mile. After Mandalay was sold in early 2005 to MGM MIRAGE, Soffer and Schaeffer co-founded Fontainebleau Resorts.
