Calgary Building Permits
Monday, April 6th, 2009Mario Toneguzzi, Calgary Herald
Calgary bucked the national trend in February for building permit values as the city’s census metropolitan area saw an 11.8 per cent increase from the previous month, according to Statistics Canada.
The federal agency reported Monday that building permit value in the Calgary region rose to $195.9 million in February from $175.2 million in January.
Nationally, building permit values dropped by 15.9 per cent to $3.7 billion in February, from $4.4 billion in January.
At the provincial level, the values dropped by 11.2 per cent in Alberta to $509 million in February from $573 million in January.