BAKER KATZ DEVELOPMENT TOPS FEBRUARY BUILDING PERMITS

  

New construction at the site of the Baker Katz shopping center development in Brenham led city-issued permits for the month of February.

A $3.5 million permit was issued to Arch-Con Corporation, the contractor for Baker Katz.  The permit was issued for the construction of a multi-tenant retail building shell.

The site of the project, located on 35 acres of land at the intersection of Highway 290 and Chappell Hill Street, stood still for several months due to COVID-19 related delays, but work resumed this winter.  The first stores in the shopping center are anticipated to open in the spring of 2022.

A total of 18 permits were issued in February for $4,850,929.  Last February, the city issued 32 permits worth $3,341,781.

Six new homes were permitted in February for $685,680.  Through the first two months of 2021, nine homes have been permitted for $1,637,760.

So far this year, 47 permits have been issued by the city for $6,554,151.  At this time last year, 66 permits had been issued for $7,532,519.