Question: The El Rancho Hotel and Casino, was a hotel and casino that operated on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada from 1948 to 1992, the site later became part of the land used for which un-opened, unfinished resort, condominium, and casino on the Las Vegas Strip?
Context: The SLS Hotel & Casino Las Vegas (formerly Sahara Hotel and Casino) is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada.  It is owned by Stockbridge Real Estate but is under contract to be purchased by Alex Meruelo and Meruelo Group (owners of the Grand Sierra Resort Hotel & Casino in Reno) with an expected closing date of Q3 2017. The El Rancho Hotel and Casino (formerly known as The Thunderbird and The Silverbird) was a hotel and casino that operated on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada from 1948 to 1992.  After its closure, the El Rancho sat vacant for eight years while two companies made several attempts to reopen or replace the resort, which was eventually demolished in 2000, after a news report found the decrepit buildings to be in violation of health and safety regulations.  The site later became part of the land used for the un-opened Fontainebleau Resort Las Vegas. Sky Las Vegas is a 45-story luxury high-rise condominium tower with 409 units, situated on a 3-acre site on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada.  The tower's land, as well as nearby property, had been the site of the El Rancho Vegas hotel and casino from 1941 to 1960, when it burned down.  The property remained vacant for decades.  A two-story retail project had been planned for a portion of the site in 2001, although it ultimately did not materialize.  Plans for Sky Las Vegas were announced in July 2004, with construction beginning the following year and its opening occurring in May 2007. El Rancho Vegas was a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip.  It was located at 2500 Las Vegas Boulevard, at the southwest corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue, and opened on April 3, 1941.  Until 1942, it was the largest hotel in Las Vegas with 110 rooms.  On June 17, 1960, the hotel was destroyed by fire.  In 1982, the El Rancho Hotel and Casino formerly known as the Thunderbird and later as the Silverbird opened across the street from the former site of the El Rancho Vegas, creating some confusion. Hilton Grand Vacations Club is a timeshare property located on the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada.  The property was previously occupied by the El Rancho Vegas hotel and casino from 1941 until 1960, when it burned down.  The land remained vacant until 2001, when Hilton Grand Vacations Company purchased a portion of the property and began construction of a 28-story timeshare tower. The Tropicana – Las Vegas Boulevard intersection on the Las Vegas Strip (Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard), is noteworthy for several reasons.  It was the first intersection in Las Vegas completely closed to street level pedestrian traffic and its four corners are home to four major resorts: Excalibur Hotel and Casino, Tropicana Las Vegas, New York-New York Hotel and Casino and MGM Grand Las Vegas—the latter has 5,044 rooms and was once the largest hotel in the world.  The resorts at the four corners have a total of 12,536 hotel rooms as of 2016. Fontainebleau Las Vegas is an unfinished resort, condominium, and casino on the Las Vegas Strip on the 24.5 acre site previously occupied by the El Rancho Hotel and Casino and the Algiers Hotel in Winchester, Nevada.  It was intended to be a sister property to the well-known 1950s-era Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel.  The building is currently the second tallest structure in the Las Vegas Valley. Holy Cow!  Casino and Brewery (formerly Foxy's Firehouse) was a locals casino and microbrewery on South Las Vegas Boulevard, north of the Las Vegas Strip, in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The property began in 1955 as Foxy's Deli, which operated until its closure in 1975.  A year later, the building was reopened as a casino named Foxy's Firehouse, which later closed in 1988.  Tom "Big Dog" Wiesner purchased the building and reopened it as the Holy Cow casino in 1992.  Wiesner added a microbrewery the following year, making the Holy Cow the first brewery to open in Las Vegas.  Wiesner persuaded the state to change its laws that had prohibited breweries from operating in Las Vegas. The Palazzo is a luxury hotel and casino resort located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.  It is the tallest completed building in Nevada.  Designed by the Dallas based HKS, Inc., the hotel offers luxury in an Italian Renaissance ambiance.  The hotel and casino are part of a larger complex (operated as one hotel) comprising the adjoining Venetian Resort and Casino and the Sands Convention Center, all of which are owned and operated by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation. Carl Cohen (February 15, 1913 – December 26, 1986) was an American businessman.  He was a well-known executive in the gambling resort industry in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the 1940s through 1970s and is credited with playing an important role in the development of Las Vegas as a premier resort destination.  He began his career as a bookie and operator in illegal gambling clubs operated by the Mayfield Road Mob in Cleveland, Ohio.  Moving to Las Vegas, he became casino manager for the El Rancho Vegas in the 1940s and the Sands Hotel and Casino in the 1950s; he also had a controlling interest in both resorts.  He advanced to senior vice president of the Sands and, in 1973, became senior vice president of the newly opened MGM Grand Hotel.  He gained national notoriety for a 1967 altercation with Frank Sinatra at the Sands, in which he responded to the singer's drunken and aggressive behavior by punching him in the mouth and knocking the caps off his front teeth.
Answer: Fontainebleau Resort Las Vegas