Never finished Fontainebleau on Vegas Strip to be covered up

A Clark County commissioner turned a relatively routine request for an off-site improvement bond extension into an opportunity to compel the property's owner to cover up part of the unsightly construction site that has been visible for several years, rising 63-stories above the Strip.

Other under-construction properties along the Strip have agreed to cover up unsightliness, including The Venetian, which covered up a tower that was never finished, and Boyd Gaming Corp., which sold its Echelon project to the Genting Group before it needed to cover up that site.

If she and other commissioners had voted down the extension, the company would have lost access to the bond money already set aside and the county could have started making off-site improvements to the public areas around the site itself.