MOOSE JAW — Two new commercial storage buildings worth $8.2 million lifted building permit values to new heights for the first two months of the year.
City hall issued two permits worth $4.1 million each for 369C - Thatcher Dr. E., vacant land next to Canadian Tire.
The permits took total building for the month to $8.7 million from $1.57 million last February.
Other major permits included $175,000 for an office building at 441 Fairford Street West — site of the former Lions Band hall; $150,000 for the new Legion building at 693 Fairford Street West. and $63,000 to convert a multiple family unit to single family house at 331 Oxford Street West.
A single family house permit issued for $299,000 was the only one in two months.
One demolition permit was issued.
