LAS VEGAS: The owners of the Plaza Hotel in New York have won a court fight to use the Plaza name for a casino-resort planned on the Las Vegas Strip.

El-Ad Group, the developers of the planned multibillion dollar resort, said Monday they expect to break ground in spring 2010 and open in 2012.

El-Ad Group was sued by Tamares Las Vegas Properties LLC, which owns the Plaza Hotel & Casino in downtown Las Vegas.

El-Ad says a Clark County District Court jury sided with them because of federal trademarks that allow El-Ad to use the brand throughout the United States.

The new Plaza complex is expected to be built on the former site of the New Frontier casino-hotel, which was demolished by implosion in November 2007.