Not long after, the now-iconic hotel also boasted a link to Las Vegas - a connection that, following a volatile run on the Strip, continues today.ĭeveloper Jeffrey Soffer, owner of Fontainebleau Miami Beach, reacquired Las Vegas’ Fontainebleau a year ago, well over a decade after he originally broke ground on the towering hotel-casino only to see it go bankrupt after the economy crashed, change hands a couple of times and then get derailed by the pandemic, all before Soffer came back to finish what he started.Ĭonstruction is underway on the 67-story Fontainebleau Las Vegas, which is slated to open in late 2023 and feature 3,700-plus rooms. “Meals are extra, of course,” the columnist noted. Rooms at the new South Florida spot included a $262-a-day suite, he later wrote - or more than $2,700 today when adjusted for inflation. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) the fall of 1954, a newspaper columnist quipped that he had been invited to the upcoming premiere of the “trillion dollar” Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach.
Fontainebleau Las Vegas under construction on the north Strip Friday, Feb.
