Fontainebleau letter signage gets initial tryout on Strip tower

A period aft developer Jeffrey Soffer unveiled plans to unfastened the long-unfinished Fontainebleau, signage for the edifice has appeared adjacent the apical of the northbound Strip tower.

Portions of Fontainebleau Las Vegas’ “fb” logo tin beryllium seen connected the exterior of the skyscraper successful the aforesaid country arsenic it is featured successful a rendering of the project.

The developers are investigating signage, and for now, it’s not being permanently installed, according to a typical for proprietor Fontainebleau Development.

The 67-story hotel-casino is slated to unfastened successful 2023 — agelong aft Soffer, who reacquired the spot aboriginal this year, initially started the project.

Soffer and erstwhile Las Vegas casino enforcement Glenn Schaeffer unveiled plans for the Fontainebleau successful 2005 and broke crushed successful 2007. But the existent property marketplace soon crashed, the system tanked, and the Fontainebleau went bankrupt successful 2009.

Billionaire Carl Icahn acquired it successful 2010 for astir $150 cardinal and sold it successful 2017 for $600 cardinal to developer Steve Witkoff and partners.

In aboriginal 2018, Witkoff unveiled the resort’s caller name, Drew Las Vegas, and aboriginal said it would debut successful 2022.

But successful March 2020, helium suspended operation arsenic Las Vegas rapidly unopen down implicit fears of the coronavirus outbreak.

Soffer, proprietor of Florida-based Fontainebleau Development, reacquired the spot successful February successful concern with the existent property helping of Kansas conglomerate Koch Industries.

He announced the resort’s sanction alteration and expected opening day connected Nov. 9.

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