Despite a slower July, Kamloops remains on pace for a fourth straight year of record construction activity.

There was more than $10.6 million worth of building permits issued last month, a far cry from the $30.5 million of activity in July of last year.

Building and Engineering Development Manager Jason Dixon says there was one large apartment project in July 2019 that really inflated the numbers.

“This July was a little slower compared to last basically on the back of one permit. So in July of 2019 we issued one permit for an apartment building. It was 140 units. Was a 21 million dollar project. So really that alone is the big difference.”

“Saw more activity in July 2020 on the multi-family side of stuff. If you look at the numbers we had 11 single family permits went out last year, but not a lot on the multi-family side. And this year we had 24 permits go out on the multi-family side. So it’s just kind of a month to month shift.”

The city has approved just shy of $190 million of construction activity so far in 2020, about $11 million more than through the fist seven months of last year.