After a dip in May and June, Ottawa’s building permit activity surged in July – with $533.6 million in permits issued, compared to $233.9 million the same month in 2017.
The increase has again put the city’s overall construction economy into boom mode, with overall permits reaching $1901.8 million for the first seven months of the year, compared to $1,539.2 last year – representing a 23.6 per cent year-to-date increase.
See the complete city building permit data report here
This is compared to total building activity in the city for January to June reaching $1,368.2 million, compared to $1,305.3 million from January to June 2017, or a 4.81 per cent increase.
Significant July projects included:
1161 Heron Rd. – $67,300,125
The permit to construct two 16-storey rental apartment buildings has been issued to Ron Eastern Construction Ltd. (Woodman Architect & Associates Ltd. designed the project.)
The original development application in 2016 called for a 343-unit residential complex on what had been vacant land, with green roofs on the first, fourth and sixth levels. A former railway right of way will be developed as recreational open space with an extension of the north-south multi-use pathway as currently planned by the City of Ottawa.
135 Barrette St. – $18,580,653
This eight-storey mixed use building is associated with a new condo and townhouse development, St. Charles Market, by ModBox Development.
567 Cambridge St. S. – $8,205,464
The permit calls for construction of an addition at the side of a six-storey seniors’ apartment building (The Kings Daughters & Sons Apartments).
3020 Hawthorne Rd. – $8,153,071
PCL and Ellis Don (in a joint venture) are working on interior alterations to a single-storey Museums Canada warehouse to create a heritage collections management facility).