 The Algiers closed on August 31, 2004, and was subsequently demolished.The Krystle Sands project was cancelled in 2005, and the property was sold to Turnberry Associates, which had the Fontainebleau Resort Las Vegas built on a portion of the Algiers property.In 1953, the Thunderbird hotel and casino (later the El Rancho) opened the adjacent 110-room Algiers Hotel at the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip, as a sister property to deal with an overflow of guests.