After a week of delays, all tenants will soon be moved in to the HERE apartment complex. All floors of the complex have been approved for occupancy, and the final group of waiting tenants will soon move from hotels or other temporary lodging into their now complete apartments.

The majority of the complex was granted its temporary occupancy permit last week, but 90 tenants have been waiting on the completion of floors 7 and 8. Inspectors with the City of Lawrence approved the remaining floors for occupancy Tuesday, according to Scott McCullough, the city’s director of planning and development services.

The remaining tenants will be allowed to move in over the next few days, with the final group of 20 tenants scheduled to move on Thursday and Friday, according to the project’s developers, CA Ventures. Many of the residents are students, and the first day of school at the University of Kansas was Monday.

“It’s a busy and exciting time right now as we facilitate move-ins at HERE Kansas and focus on helping residents get settled into their new home as they start the school year,” said a statement from JJ Smith, chief operating officer at CA Ventures.

The final occupancy permit for the project will require completion of work in and around the building, as well as an additional parking lot to remedy a parking shortage at the site. HERE and KU Endowment are negotiating a plan to build a 68-space surface parking lot at the corner of Mississippi Street and Fambrough Drive. HERE would then lease the lot from KU Endowment, which would have exclusive right to it for home football games, as well as for three other events per year.

The statement from Smith said alternative parking arrangements will be made for HERE tenants for KU home football games. He said that some residents left their cars at home due to the complex’s proximity to KU and downtown Lawrence.

“Regarding parking, alternative solutions have been arranged for the eight days of football games and, based on how we are tracking with cars-to-occupants ratio, we won’t need to displace any cars,” said Smith, who noted that just over half of the residents have signed parking leases.

The $75 million luxury apartment complex at 11th and Mississippi streets currently has about 500 of its 624 bedrooms leased. More than 400 tenants were able to move in to their apartments Friday, two days after a revised move-in date of Aug. 17. The original move in date had been Aug. 7. Since then, city staff had been making regular visits to the site to determine whether contractors had completed the necessary building and safety codes required for the temporary occupancy permit.

Now that the entire building has received that permit, McCullough said he anticipates that the contractor will begin work on the items on the permit’s conditions list. City inspectors in Fire-Medical, Public Works and Planning and Development Services noted about 25 items that need to be completed by Sept. 1 or earlier.

The parking plan will also need to be approved by the City Commission before going forward. The complex’s final certificate of occupancy won’t be issued for another six to 12 months, and requires the completion of additional parking and the items in the temporary permit.