Park City construction industry totals halved

(Park Record) Park City's construction industry through the end of November had posted $66.9 million in work in 2009, City Hall's Building Department reported, a sum that puts the industry at a pace less than half of the totals of 2008.

Through the same period the year before, $141.4 million worth of work had received building permits. The Building Department has long cautioned that the numbers this year would not match those of the year before, and throughout most of 2009 the figures have been well behind.

According to the department, 73 building permits were issued in November. They were valued at $2.5 million. The value of the permits trailed the October figure and the amount recorded in the same month the year before.

The department issued one permit for a house, the only building that received a permit in November. Alterations and additions boosted the month's numbers, with the department issuing 56 such permits valued at just less than $1.3 million. Most of the permits for alterations and additions were issued to people working on residential properties.

The number of electrical, plumbing and mechanical permits the department issued was mixed from the month before and the same month the year before.

Meanwhile, the department's daily inspection load of 250 was up from the month before but down significantly from the 324 each day in the same month the year before.

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