After a torrid start to 2018, due to the construction of a new football field, building permits cooled off considerably during June.
Permits totaled $33,475 in June, inching the 2018 half-year total to $5,388,126.
Most of that is, of course, the $5,090,413 permit issued in May for the new football field, now going up on the footprint of the former Tiger Field, which has been razed.
The total already eclipses the $5,186,826 in all 12 months of 2017, a year which included the $3,512,471 permit for the new police station.
NO. 6—2017 had been the sixth-place year, all-time. Now that honor goes to 2018.
The current year has a ways to go to crack the top five, however. Here are those totals: No. 1—2008, $30,877,029 (new intermediate school, expansion-renovation of high school). No. 2—2006, $9,220,773. No. 3—2003, $8,872,018. No. 4—2004, $7,569,950. No. 5—2007, $7,445,183. Permits only reflect construction within the Rockdale city limits. MONTH-BY-MONTH—Here are the month-by-month building permit totals, so far, for 2018. January—$32,514. February—$16,166. March—$136,794. April—$78,764. May—$5,148,672. June—$33,475.
There have been no home starts in Rockdale this year. Only one was recorded in 2017. Building permits in Rockdale area available since the “Alcoa boom” year of 1954.
June permits were issued to:
• John McEvoy, structure, 315 Thrall.
• Tabitha Deener, remodel, 804 Smith Road.
• Joy Kornegay, structure, 235 East Milam.
• Barbara Favors, structure, 619 North Wilcox.
• Harold Wayne Cooper Jr., fence, 222 West Milam.
• Niels Beery, fence, 104 North Travis
• Loretta Perry, deck, 649 Ackerman.
• Jacob Leslie, remodel, 302 Houston.
Permits are issued at City Hall and reflect only construction within the city limits.
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