Big thanks to the Twitter follower who passed along this pic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n3. Power Line Being Installed<\/h2>\n An eagle-eyed reader spotted a “Fountain Blue” sign near the JW Marriott LVB site (by Turnberry Towers at Karen Ave. and Joe Brown Drive), so we chatted with the company displayed on the sign. We confirmed it’s a constractor installing an NV Energy power line for JW Marriott LVB. This is big news, infrastructurewise, and it’s a strong indication the project is moving forward.<\/p>\nThat’s how it was pronounced, by the way, “fountain blue.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIn addition to these delicious tidbits, there has also been a flurry of new and renewed building permits for the JW Marriott LVB project, clinching our belief we’re going to see the place become a reality, against all odds.<\/p>\n
The hope for JW Marriott LVB is conventions will be back to full strength by its 2023 opening, and the hotel’s location will position it perfectly to take advantage of increased investment in drawing more and larger conventions to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
The Las Vegas Convention Center, just a lanyard’s throw away from the new JW Marriott LVB, recently completed a $989 million expansion, including a new underground shuttle system from Elon Musk.<\/p>\n
JW Marriott Las Vegas Blvd. will have more than 3,700 rooms and 500,000-square-feet of meeting space.<\/p>\n
The abandoned Fontainebleau project has been an eyesore for years, and a thorn in the side of \nlocal officials, so it’s refreshing to see tangible evidence the JW Marriott Las Vegas Blvd. project is moving forward and could finally come to fruition.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There’s new life at the long-abandoned Fontainebleau (and The Drew) site. The hotel has a new name, JW Marriott Las Vegas Blvd., and we’ve got some juicy evidence this new resort is actually going to happen. This project has been stalled since 2009 (Fontainebleau was 70 percent finished when construction was halted), but was recently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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