Fontainebleau Las Vegas - unfinished 735-foot tower and prolonged construction halt

The Fontainebleau Las Vegas project was designed as a high-rise resort tower planned to rise about 735 feet above the Strip; construction began in 2007 but halted in 2009, leaving an unfinished concrete skeleton that remained a visible structure for years. The property site on the north Strip has been sold and subject to multiple redevelopment efforts in the 2010s and 2020s, making the incomplete tower a long-running, conspicuous construction story along Las Vegas Boulevard. The site's interrupted construction and later resumptions have been widely reported in local and national media.