Commercial New Construction
Ground-up commercial buildings — offices, retail, mixed-use.
189K permits classified across 35 metros
Browse commercial new construction permits in Los Angeles →What it covers
Commercial new construction permits cover ground-up commercial buildings — office towers, retail centers, mixed-use developments, and standalone storefronts. These permits are filed when a project breaks ground and includes the structural foundation, framing, and shell work. Filtered for commercial occupancy types (B, M, A-2) under the International Building Code.
How a permit lands in Commercial New Construction.
Every silver permit flows through a two-stage classifier. The deterministic stage maps the structured signals — work_class, the normalized permit type, and the building sub-type — into the segment vocabulary where the mapping is unambiguous. The machine-learning stage handles the cases that aren't direct lookups: multi-vocab permit-type strings, ambiguous occupancy spans, and jurisdictions that bundle categories. The segment is the classifier's output, the same axis across every metro — so commercial_new means the same thing in NYC as in LA even though the upstream jurisdictions emit completely different raw permit-type strings.
When the signal genuinely isn't there, we say so. A row with no assignable segment degrades honestly — to its work-nature, then to its raw source type, and only to “Unclassified” when truly nothing is known. We never guess a segment to fill a gap; an honest Unclassified is the floor, and field-level data-quality flags surface when the classifier had low confidence. That restraint is the point — the classification is only worth selling on if the “don't know” is honest.
Commercial New Construction by metro — where it’s moving
Where commercial new construction permits are classified today, ranked by volume — with each metro’s momentum (the last 90 days vs the prior 90) so you can see where the segment is heating up in your territory. Momentum shows only where we have enough filings to stand behind it. Metros with recent activity link straight into the live browse.
-26% vs prior 90d
- Los Angeles →-11%24K
- Columbus22K
- Charlotte →-47%17K
- Phoenix →+56%14K
- New York City →+200%14K
- Fort Worth →-26%13K
- Washington, DC →-36%11K
- Austin →+265%10K
- Orlando →-44%10K
- Chicago →+49%8,983
- Las Vegas →-23%8,916
- San Antonio →-26%5,658
- Seattle →+20%3,385
- Miami →-22%2,946
- Denver →-47%2,692
- Raleigh →-4%2,463
- Philadelphia →-26%2,076
- San Francisco-67%1,793
- Nashville →-47%1,480
- Hartford →+33%1,303
- Cleveland →+21%1,127
- Boston →+9%851
- Norfolk-59%799
- Memphis →-43%745
- Milwaukee-27%687
- Sacramento →-13%587
- Cincinnati →-50%524
- Pittsburgh →+5%515
- Tucson →+11%441
- Detroit →-14%356
- Atlanta+49%315
- Baltimore →-17%310
- Louisville →-21%137
- San Jose →-29%70
- Spokane County70
Recent commercial new construction permits
Real permits classified into Commercial New Construction in the last 30 days.
- 858 N Wolcott AveNew / Construction / Commercial$45K2026-08-14Chicago
- 8649 S Euclid AveNew / Construction / Commercial$200K2026-08-14Chicago
- 1251 N Hoyne AveNew / Construction / Commercial$100K2026-08-14Chicago
- 3710 Cedar St Bldg DpNew / Construction / Commercial—2026-08-14Austin
- 1125 Curve StNew / Construction / Commercial$1.5M2026-08-14Austin
- 2437 N Eliot StNew / Construction / Commercial$3.5M2026-08-14Denver
Who tracks Commercial New Construction.
Commercial New Construction is a sales-intelligence segment for building-products manufacturers and their sales teams selling into commercial construction — roofing, HVAC, signage, MEP, and envelope. Filter it by metro, rank the contractors pulling these permits, and see the projects worth selling into — the same way across every covered market.