Apparently it was just miscalculations regarding the crane. Sounds amazing that this sort of thing could happen but.... There is nothing nefarious happening, no desire to shorten the building, no lack of interest or other conspiracy theories, just an error. Realistically it could have been corrected by connecting the crane to the building at level 9 and then at level 12 but obviously they crunched the numbers and it was cheaper to take the path that they did.
It should start rising up again soon.
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