Need Some Furniture? The Fontainebleau is Selling Theirs

September 28, 2010 at 6:53 PM | by juliana | Comments (0)

The Fontainebleau Las Vegas in December 2009.

Those dreams of having iMacs in our Vegas hotel room at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas have officially been crushed. The long-stalled project in Vegas, which we've long dubbed "The Fontaine-bust", is now holding a fire sale, according to the New York Post.

All furniture that was bought for the hotel, on which construction was stopped when it was 70 percent complete, is now up for grabs. That includes "beds, dressers, TVs and other furnishings"--iMacs perhaps?

The Fontainebleau was snapped up earlier this year by billionaire investor Carl Icahn and the initial thought was that construction would resume and someday in the somewhat near future, the hotel and casino would open as originally planned. But the furniture sale could mean that Icahn is already looking to unload the property to someone else. And even then, the hotel may never get built.

With so many hotel rooms now open in Vegas and visitor numbers and spending not quite what they used to be, opening a nearly 4,000+ hotel room in a crowded, somewhat depressed market is just not a sound business opportunity. Indeed, it's a common joke on the Strip that the Fontainebleau will get imploded before it even opens. Sad. We just wonder where will the LVFD do their training from now on?

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