Freemium ate them all. Edit: Sorry that's not very helpful, I honestly haven't seen a good solid city builder that didn't revolve around heavily exaggerated timers for quite a while though, good luck with the quest, I would be dead keen if their was something worthwhile.
You could try Townsmen. Free to download with ads and 0.89€ to remove them. You can buy coins and prestige,but i never needed them. The timers to build something are very short,like a minute or so. Best town builder i know,and it looks awesome. There's multiple quests,sandbox mode,and it really takes some strategy to keep your townsmen happy.