CALGARY — The total value of building permits in the Calgary region in May dropped sharply from the previous month, according to Statistics Canada.
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Permit process streamlined to aid flood victims
Medicine Hat is expediting the building permit and inspection process for restoration work on homes or businesses affected by flood.
The new over-the-counter streamlined process aims to take only five minutes, with those affected able to leave with permit in hand.
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Red Deer permits rise but behind 2012
A municipal approval for $12 million worth of work at Quinn Pumps’ premises in Riverside Heavy Industrial Park helped boost the City of Red Deer’s building permit values in May to $30.1 million. But that tally still came up short of the $33.2 million worth of permits issued by the city in the same month of 2012.
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Building Permits
As a leading indicator of economic activity, building permits provide insight on the intents to build in the Edmonton Census Metropolitan Area, the performance of the construction sector and overall economy.
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Calgary region building permits rise in April
CALGARY — The value of building permits in the Calgary region jumped to $772.7 million in April, according to Statistics Canada.
The federal agency reported Wednesday that permits were up 40.6 per cent from March and increased by 12.9 per cent year-over-year.
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Outlook for permits appears optimistic
Central Alberta’s development officers won’t be able to tally their municipalities’ 2013 building permit values for seven months.
But a quarter of the way through the year, some had reason for optimism.
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Development and Building Activity on the Rise
Applications for New Multi-Family Development Permits in the City of Edmonton in the first quarter of 2013 are up 92% from the same period last year, a new report says.
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Building permits remained steady through April
New home permits in April kept pace with the same month last year, though the value of new construction fell off.
The City of Medicine Hat’s planning department reports that it OK’d 21 new home construction permits in each month of 2012 and 2013, but the estimated value of construction in the recent month dropped about 13 per cent to an average of $256,000 per home comparatively.
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Edmonton’s non-residential building permits increase in March
EDMONTON, AB, May. 8, 2013/ Troy Media/ – The value of building permits issued in the Edmonton Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) increased dramatically in March. According to the latest Statistics Canada data, contractors in the Edmonton CMA took out building permits worth $850 million in March – a level that is more than double the total value of permits issued in March 2012.
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Better Process Means Faster Permits
Local home builders are getting shovels in the ground sooner thanks to a new program introduced by the City of Edmonton.
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