The year just past would have been a pretty decent one for building inside the city limits, but what happened on April 6 turned it into a “top 10” eff0rt.
A storm which spawned a confirmed tornado that hit San Gabriel, and other locations, peppered Rock-dale neighborhoods with up to marble-sized hail.
By year’s end there were 166 roofing replacement projects, helping to account for $4,490,185 in building permits.
That’s No. 9 all time.
There were roofing projects begun in every month after April, including 45 in June and 38 in July. There were still 12 roofing projects begun in December.
That’s not to say there weren’t major building starts. A $625,000 permit for a new O’Reilly’s on West Cameron (US 79) was issued in September and the $600,000 permit for Di-Hard Fitness Studio on Josie Lane was logged in March.
(Permits are issued at City Hall and reflect only construction within the city limits. That’s why neither the Whinstone nor Bitmain cryptocurrency projects at Alcoa’s Rockdale Operations showed up in the permit total.)
Rockdale’s all-time year for building permits was 2008 with $30,877,029. That’s the year construction began on a school bond program which saw a brand new intermediate school constructed, the high school tripled in size and more.
Here’s the rest of the “top 10”:
No. 2—2018, $11,374,30 No. 3—2006, $9,220,773; No. 4—2013, $8,872,018; No. 5—2004, $7,569,950.
No. 6—2007, $7,445,183; No. 7—2017, $5,186,826; No. 8—1985, $4,974,548;
No. 9—2019, $4,490,185;
No. 10—2002, $4,087,691.
Below are Rockdale’s year-by-year permit totals since 1954, the peak year of the Alcoa boom construction.
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