Sault Ste. Marie had a bust-out year for construction in 2021 – Northern Ontario Business

City issues 1,311 building permits last year, worth $211.4 million, doubling any of the previous five years

COVID-19 may be kicking our backsides, but the latest building permit statistics released by the City of Sault Ste. Marieshow the local construction sector is enjoying its best performance in recent memory.

Permits issued in 2021 totalled $221.4 million, higher than any of the previous dozen years and easily twice the construction value of any of the previous five years.

In the 12-year period from 2009 to 2020, the best years were 2011 ($169.3 million), 2010 ($150.8 million) and 2009 ($125.9 million).

Last year, 1,125 permits valued at $75million were issued for local residential projects.

A total of 51 permits worth $38.1 million were issued in the institutional and governmental category.

Twenty-two industrial building permits added up to $8.4 million.

In the commercial sector, there were 113 permits worth $89.9 million.

Major construction projects for which building permits were issued in 2021 included the following:

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