Building permits in the city of North Battleford in February and March were good, at least before the COVID-19 pandemic showed up.
February and March numbers were presented at Tuesday’s council meeting in North Battleford. According to the numbers released for February 2020, the city issued six permits for $3,051,778 that month, compared to seven for $207,500 for the same month the year before.
Driving the increase in permit values was a new commercial permit valued at $1.5 million in February.
March permits were also ahead of the same month the year before. Seven permits were issued for $517,000 compared to five for $166,000 the year before. Driving the numbers were three commercial alterations for $421,000.
That brought totals to date to 19 permits for $4,206,878 through March 2020, compared to 19 for $497,000 through March 2019.
