Looks like residents have started moving in at Vero Tempe, though I detest a 7 story midrise being referred to as a "tower."
https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/...ice-opens.html
Reminder that this is 199 units, studio-2 bed, at the corner of 6th street and Novus place within Phase III of the Novus development. For some reason I thought it was mentioned that this was going to be affordable housing when it started construction, but that's obviously not the case with rents in the range of 1500-3000.
This article also mentions that an additional tenant is coming to the 777 Novus tower, with Mediterranean Shipping Co. Moving into the 6th floor. Another mention that the 700 Novus tower is ready for construction as soon as a tenant is lined up. The current commercial real estate environment has me wondering if the third planned office tower in Phase III (which would be on the NW corner of University and Rural) will ever be built or if the developers will bend and change it to a different use, they could be waiting a long time for groundbreaking on that one. Belatedly, I noticed recently that the land use plan has been removed from the Novus website, not sure if this is just site maintenance or if something else is going on there? Only speculation obviously, I'm just always waiting for more Novus news.