High on a hill overlooking albuquerque the light- brown dust swirls, and a steel skeleton gleams under the sun.

FORBES: Ready for Takeoff

The joints of the sculpture's inner steel skeleton suffered extensive damage.

WSJ: Original Iwo Jima monument coming to NYC auction

The steel-and-concrete skeleton of the Echelon project has stood on the north Strip since 2008, a symbol of the initial promise and disastrous end of the Las Vegas construction boom.

WSJ: Asian firm buys site of stalled Vegas Strip casino