Another big month for construction in Kamloops, with the city issuing $35.5 million in permits during August.

Building and engineering development manager Jason Dixon says the largest permit was for The Hive in downtown Kamloops, at 5th and Lansdowne. It was worth $14 million.

“That permit is basically for the underground parkade, so the concrete work foundation. Parkade, and then the base building above. But that won’t include all the internal fit-outs. We’ll see tenant improvement permits for when those spaces are leased.”

He says there will likely be a series of small permits still to go out for phase one of that project.

“Depending on how the office spaces leases, and how big of office space gets leased out at a time, I guess some of those permits could be a bit more in value. Just because of cost of construction. But some of the smaller spaces leased out, we’ll see permits but I don’t think we’ll see anything in construction value certainly that we’ve seen with the base building.”

Dixon also says there was a $3-million-dollar permit for the Children’s Circle Daycare in the Sagebrush Neighborhood and a $6-million-dollar permit for “Cookie’s Place,” a 37-unit affordable housing complex at Hillside Court.

He says other big permits were for a 12-unit addition to the Berwick on the Park Senior’s Home, worth $2 million. Another permit worth $1.4 million was issued at Royal Inland Hospital for a new parking lot.

In total, $224.9 million worth of building permits have been issued in Kamloops this year. That’s well the total of $187.9 million through the first eight months of 2019, which went on to be a third-straight record construction year in the River City.