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Fontainebleau by the numbers

Facts and trivia about Fontainebleau, by the numbers:

* At 67 stories and 729 feet, Fontainebleau is the tallest occupiable building in Nevada.

* The resort estimates hiring as many as 6,500 workers. There were about 3,800 constructions workers on-site each day.

* 150,000-square-feet casino with 42-foot ceilings.

* 1,300 slot machines, 128 table games and 36 high-limit table games.

* 3,644 rooms and suites on 60 floors.

* 36 first-to-market food and beverage outlets.

* 550,00 square feet of meeting and convention space spanning five levels.

* 90,000 square feet of retail space.

* 90,000-square-foot theater with 3,800 general admission seats in BleauLive Theater.

* The resort uses 19,175 pieces of blue glass.

* The South Lobby is home to a 68-foot-tall escalator that spans 150 feet in length and travels at 100 feet per minute.

* 55,000-square-foot Lapis Spa, with 44 treatment rooms and 14,000 square-foot fitness center.

* 105,000-square-foot Royal Ballroom that can fit two Boeing 747s nose-to-nose.

* A 48-foot-tall gold sculpture, Urs Fischer’s “Lovers #3,” sits in the resort’s South Lobby.

McKenna Ross is a corps member with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms. Contact her at mross@reviewjournal.com. Follow @mckenna_ross_ on X.

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