Dickinson: Building Permits Break Record -- Second Year in a Row

Dickinson Press link here (not always available for some reason).  Here's the lede:

Housing is getting more expensive to construct in Dickinson. For the second year in a row the record for building permit values has been broken with the city issuing more than $144.3 million, officials said Monday.

Building are bigger:

While the city issued permits for roughly the same number of buildings, buildings have gotten more expensive, Courton said. For example, the city issued 41 commercial structures in the last two years, but the value this year was just shy of $71 million, more than three times the amount in 2010 — which was more than $22.6 million.

“The projects are bigger than what they were in the past,” Courton said. “Instead of your standard, smaller industrial and commercial projects now they are a lot larger. Now they are significantly bigger, so the cost is representative of that.