Also, she noted, most new developments are selling out well before construction is completed.
Buyers who sign before construction is completed have always taken a risk that the building won't look quite the way they imagined it.
(Unlike most U.S. developers, Harvey Hernandez, the project's Venezuelan-born developer, is requiring buyers to put down 90 percent of the purchase price before construction is completed, a financial model that is familiar to most Latin buyers).
Success also depends on decisions about how much electricity a new plant will contract to sell in the future, and thus how much fuel it must commit to buy, even before construction is completed.
The focal mast was originally going to be wood, but this was changed to a steel mast before construction was complete.
In a sad twist, he died before construction was completed.
Instead, they expected to sell their right to the house, at a profit, before construction was completed.
Mr. Christie bet particularly big on Revel, after its biggest backer, Morgan Stanley, pulled out before construction was completed.
It was finished relatively quickly, in 1949, but it would be years before construction was completed on the freeways it was built to connect.
