People are building or renovating in Drumheller.
The second quarter statistics are in for Town of Drumheller building permits for this year.
In April, two permits were given out for commercial building. These were a total value of $1,600. In April of 2014, two permits were also given out and they valued a total of $287,000. There were also 13 residential permits taken out this year with a total value of $1,206,000 whereas last year, only nine permits were taken out in April for a total of only $209,500. In 2014 there was also a multi-family permit issued for $500,000.
The month of May saw commercial permits double to four with a value of $404,000 compared to last year at eight permits at a value of $382,900. In terms of residential, there were nine permits issued with a total value of $485,130 compared to last year’s boom of 17 permits with a value of $1,292,385.
In June, there were three commercial permits issued for a value of $120,900, two institutional permits issued for $142,000 and five residential permits issued for $30,356. Last year, three commercial permits were issued for $10,000, two multi-family permits were issued for $1,050,890 and seven residential permits valued at $631,865.
The total value of permits issued over the three-month period in 2014 was $2,973,540 and for 2015 was $2,389,986.
“People are really taking a look at Drumheller. It is a lot more affordable than some places like Calgary and Edmonton,” Cody Glydon, Economic Development and Communications officer for the Town of Drumheller said.
“We have so many great attractions here, the brand new waterslide put in at the Drumheller Aquaplex, but the most impressive is the brand new Badlands Community Facility. We have a number of conferences coming in, the gym, the public library. Everything is brand new there and it is a really, really exciting place to be,” he continued by mentioning that Drumheller will soon have the completion of the $7.5 million Telus Fibre Optics upgrade.
Glydon also mentioned that people have been fixing up and renovating on the commercial side as well.
“We have noticed a lot of people really starting to fix up certain businesses. Some people are doing some renovations; others are building new businesses, that type of stuff. We are very happy with the progress this summer,” he said.
Glydon told inSide Drumheller that the residential permits are for several different reasons.
“Some is building obviously, others are just doing some renovations or fixing up, maybe putting a new garage in, maybe putting in a new deck. It can be various circumstances regarding that,” he said.
