Fontainebleau Las Vegas

About this audio guide

This guide tells how Jeffrey Soffer's glass Strip tower, launched at the height of the 2007 boom, was left as sixty stories of raw concrete when the 2008 crash cut off financing and his company went bankrupt owing subcontractors over 250 million dollars. It follows the wreck through corporate raider Carl Icahn's purchase and a brief life under new owners who renamed it. Look up at the dark glass and imagine it standing empty for over a decade.