Marriott International’s plan to open two luxury hotels on the north Las Vegas Strip at the long-stalled Fontainebleau site. The project could finally provide crucial energy for a stretch on the north end that has been largely dormant for the better part of a decade.

Quiet since 2009 because of recession-era construction delays, the project is slated to open in 2020 as the Drew Las Vegas, a 4,000-room integrated resort that will include a JW Marriott and a hotel under Marriott’s Edition brand, as well as a third eponymous hotel, the Drew, which will be overseen in part by former Cosmopolitan Las Vegas CEO John Unwin.

In addition to a casino, restaurants and nightclubs, the Drew will add more than 500,000 square feet of convention and meeting space to the north Las Vegas Strip.

Between the Drew, the 3,000-room Resorts World project at the old Stardust site and Wynn Resorts’ 1,500-room hotel slated for its Paradise Park project, the northern stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard could see as many as 8,500 rooms added within the next three years.

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