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Fontainebleau Development CEO On Success In Luxury Hospitality

Barchart·12/19/2025 03:20:15
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Fontainebleau Las Vegas, a 67-story, 9M SF luxury resort and casino, opened its doors on Dec. 13, 2023, and is now recognized as one of the city’s top destinations.  The project was nearly 20 years in the making, and it wasn’t always smooth sailing, Jeffrey Soffer, chairman and CEO of Fontainebleau Development, said on this week’s Walker Webcast, hosted by Walker & Dunlop CEO Willy Walker. “Lehman Brothers was one of the banks, and when the banking crisis happened, everything stopped,” Soffer said. “The place was 70% built. Nothing was finished here. It was just steel with the roof on it.” Carl Icahn of Icahn Enterprises...