By Cheryl Jahn

Building Permits “surprising” for 2020

Jan 7, 2021 | 3:19 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – The City has crunched the building permit numbers for 2020 and they’re are a surprise.

“Coming in to 2020, I thought they would be really good. Then everything that came with COVID, I started second-guessing what we’d see in terms of building permits. and, yeah, a little surprised,” says Melissa Barcellos, Manager of Economic Development.

The total number of permits issued in 2020 topped $219 million, a mere two percent less than were issued in 2019, which was a record-breaking year with the issuance of $223 million worth of permits.

“Council is extremely pleased and impressed to see these important economic indicators for Prince George are continuing at near-record levels even through the pandemic, which has had such a negative impact for the economy,” says Mayor Lyn Hall.