Fontainebleau Resorts, LLC, is a resort-hotel company started in Florida by South Florida real estate developers Turnberry Associates[1] and the Plant family in 2005, after their purchase of the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.
[2][3] The company is headed by Turnberry Principal, Jeffrey Soffer, PLANTworldwide owner Brett Plant, and former Mandalay Resort Group President, Glenn Schaeffer.
[citation needed] On April 17, 2007, Publishing & Broadcasting Limited announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire 19% of Fontainebleau Resorts for $250 million.
[5] Schaeffer was primarily responsible for securing more than $3 billion in loans for the Fontainebleau Resort Las Vegas project.
[6] The Fontainebleau Miami Beach resorts new Coastal Convention Center was opened December 11, 2024.