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No, there's already people moving in to the lower floors. It's been the plan all along to finish the first 15 floors and get them turned over to their owners with construction still in it's final stages on the upper floors. Eventually as people move in, especially around the buck hoist, they'll have to hold off starting construction work and running the buck hoist until later in the morning. The rest of the building is being finished and CO'ed in 5 floor banks which speeds things up quite a bit since everyone can focus their manpower on a smaller area instead of the whole building at once like it has been up until now.

Yes The Vue is huge, it's also a huge "tunnel form" concrete building which is gonna be nice once you're moved in since you have thick concrete walls between you and your neighbors, and you and fire from your neighbors but unfortunatley it introduces a lot of problems to the construction phase of the building. Things like electrical outlets and conduits have to be put in place right where they're supposed to be when there is nothing there but rebar during the mayhem of pouring floors and then the walls are poured around them. The concrete companies who champion this type of construction sell it as fast and easy, in reality things get moved around and knocked out of place then set in concrete. Also each trade ends up with thousands of problems in implementing their set of blueprints because poured concrete isn't nearly as accurate as metal stud framing. Now everything has to be adjusted on a room to room basis and synchronized between the trades and with the architect because their measurements come from different control points and from concrete walls that are out of square and out of position 1/2" here 1 1/4" there. Many of the problems don't fully rear their ugly heads until everything is almost done and you put the toilets, cabinets, vanities and all that in.