Building Blocks and Sim City

Next door to the office where I work there was on old Victorian mill and a small factory with a yard.
Over the last 2 years they have been vacated, demolished, the land cleaned of all the rubble, flattened and raised a few feet.
The builders have moved in and 3 massive blocks of student/key worker accommodation are in the process of being built.
The first thing they did was lay the foundations and then the steel was erected. Next the concrete floors were installed then all the buildings were surrounded in scaffold and the walls and brickwork erected.
Now it appears that the buildings are just sat there surrounded by scaffold with a huge hive of activity. Nothing to see as all the construction is now on the inside.
Very reminiscent of Sim City.
Life reflecting art you might say.
I don’t really run the Sim City much these days. At first I thought it was really amazing but now the novelty has worn off. I think that the programmers have tried to make it interesting with lots of things to do, but this is really the undoing of it, as after a while it makes the thing just too boring, too demanding. Sometimes it would be nice to just let it run, but if I do that it just runs itself into the ground.
Maybe they should have added an automatic mode ??