Building permits for $59 million worth of work were taken out by halfway through this year, according to a report from city hall, the highest total seen since 2007.
That's when the figure reached $69 million before the recession struck.
At $16.8 million, commercial alterations have led the way so far in 2014, followed by $12.5 million worth of new single-family homes, $9.4 million worth of new commercial buildings, $7.5 million worth of alterations to institutional buildings and $5.6 million worth of new institutional buildings.
Looking solely at the month of June, permits for $19.8 million worth of work were taken out, led by a $7 million facade improvement project at the RBC building at 550 Victoria St.
At $4 million, the new B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union building now under construction at 500 Quebec St. also figured prominently as did a new $2 million laboratory at Husky Energy at 2068-2452 PG Pulpmill Road.
As well, 11 permits for $2.6 million worth of new single family homes and one for a duplex worth $392,750 were issued.
Other significant projects for which permits were taken out in June include:
- addition to the Peterbuilt building at 6333 Pacific St., $615,000;
- improvements to Tim Hortons at 5808 Southridge Ave., $567,917;
- improvements at the McElhanney offices at 556 North Nechako Rd., $500,000;
- improvements to the City of Prince George electrical and carpentry shop, $308,000;
- improvements at Canadian Western Bank, 300 Victoria St., $300,000.
- improvements at The Bay department store in Parkwood Mall, $280,000;
