Fontainebleau Las Vegas Will Be A 63-story Luxury Casino Hotel

摘要

The Fontainebleau is coming to Las Vegas. The legendary hotel first opened its doors in Miami Beach in 1954. Designed by famed architect Morris Lapidus, it reigned as the top resort in one of the nation's most popular destinations for more than half a century. In 2005, Turnberry Associates, headquartered in Aventura, FL, purchased the famous Miami landmark. The company is renovating the original hotel while building Fontainebleau Las Vegas using the latest concrete pumping methods to revitalize the name as a global brand. Fontainebleau Las Vegas will be a 63-story luxury casino hotel built on a 25-acre site on the north end of the Las Vegas Strip, at Riviera Drive, within walking distance of the Las Vegas Convention Center. The project, expected to open in late 2009, is being pumped by Colasanti Specialty Services, a division of the 50-year-old company that is one of the leaders in self-performing concrete work. Headquartered in Detroit, Colasanti assigned a core group of professionals to supervise the placement and finishing of more than 6 million square feet for the 68-story tower, casino and parking structure. Cross Enterprises, a Melvindale, MI, Schwing dealer and longtime supplier of concrete pumping equipment to Colasanti, consulted with the company regarding the massive amounts of concrete to be placed and the schedule for completion. Owner Charles Cross, recent winner of the Thomas Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the concrete pumping industry, has provided Colasanti with pumping equipment for some of the highest visibility projects that the fourth-generation company has built.