Year End Building Permits Down
Prince George, B.C.- Building permits in the City of Prince George were down in 2015 when compared to 2014.Last year, there were 485 permits valued at $88,446,435 dollars. That’s down from the 509 permits valued at $125,680,455 dollars in 2014.
But not to worry, Director of Planning, Ian Wells says there are some significant development permits that will be coming in the not too distant future that will see construction this spring.
In December 2015, the most significant permit was for $3 million dollars worth of tenant alterations at the Pine Centre mall for the renovation for Lowes. If not for that permit, the December stats would have fallen well short of the same month in 2014. Last month there were 22 permits valued at $4.562 million dollars. In the same month in 2014, there were 28 permits valued at $4.653 million dollars.
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Commercial was certainly down in 2015 so hopefully all of these projects that are pending (hotels and condo developments for example) will get their permits soon.
What he could have told you was that an increase in residential permits in Nov & Dec 2014 were to avoid the Dec 2014 building code improvements. These projects were built through 2015 and some may have just started recently. This trickled into January stats also, but if you look at Nov/Dec 2013 numbers you will see that 2015 was more typical.
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