Friday, January 29, 2010

Icahn acquires stalled Fontainebleau Las Vegas project

As reported in ExpoWeb…

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s Icahn Nevada Gaming Acquisition LLC made the winning bid to buy the bankrupt Fontainebleau Las Vegas Resort for $156.1 million. Icahn’s bid was the only qualifying offer to purchase the 63-story, 3,800-room project, which cost more than $2 billion and was about 70 percent complete when it filed for bankruptcy last June after nearly $800 million in funding from lenders was pulled. 

The sale is expected to close Feb. 9. The original hotel/condo/casino project was designed to include more than 393,000 square feet of meeting space, including a more than 105,000-square-foot ballroom. Analysts expect another $1 billion will be required to complete construction of the project.


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