Dive Brief:

• The City Council in Dublin, Ohio, has approved a plan that should see a senior-living facility mothballed partway through construction in 2009 finished within 24 months.
• The city approved the 65,780-square-foot Sunrise Senior Living Facility in 2007, but work ended as the recession bit hard on the economy in 2009. The building has sat untouched since, part way through the erection of steel framing and the pouring of concrete decking.
• Sunrise will get a new building permit after a safety inspection, and this time it will call for 60,600 square feet and 120 beds, officials said.

Dive Insight:

The Sunrise project was put into suspended animation, but the developer never quit. "This company never filed for bankruptcy, they just shut down a number of projects," city attorney Stephen Smith said.