Calgary commercial-permit applications filed the week of 2026-05-11 to 2026-05-17. 213 permits applied, aggregate estimated project cost $74.2M.
Top 3 projects this week
| Cost | Address | Applicant | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| $21.4M | 3820 MEMORIAL DR NE | PCL CONSTRUCTORS CANADA INC | Industrial warehouse — new construction |
| $14.7M | 2100 SOUTHLAND DR SW | GRAHAM CONSTRUCTION | Commercial office fit-out, 4 floors |
| $6.1M | 9650 HARVEST HILLS BLVD NE | CHANDOS CONSTRUCTION LTD | Retail strip centre — shell & core |
By quadrant
SE 58 · SW 52 · NW 56 · NE 47
Most active applicants this week
- PCL CONSTRUCTORS CANADA INC — 3 permits, $24.1M aggregate value
- GRAHAM CONSTRUCTION — 2 permits, $17.3M aggregate value
- CHANDOS CONSTRUCTION LTD — 4 permits, $9.8M aggregate value
Permit-class mix
1101 - Basement Development (38) · 9999 - Unspecified (27) · 1407 - Two Family Semi-Detached (1 Unit) (18) · 1606 - Ths Townhouse (14) · 1106 - Addition (11)
Why this matters to a Calgary trade contractor
The largest project this week (3820 MEMORIAL DR NE at $21.4M) is a new industrial warehouse — the type of permit that typically generates 10–18 sub-trade solicitations within the first 21 days of filing. Mechanical, electrical, concrete, and fire-suppression trades should be reaching out to PCL this week. The two fit-out permits in SW are also worth flagging: office fit-outs at this budget level involve HVAC, low-voltage, flooring, and millwork trades simultaneously.
What happened this week at Shovel Radar
Round 854 kicked off this week. The main focus was expanding beyond Calgary and the top-10 Canadian metro areas by harvesting permit and licence data for the next tier of cities. We added 12 new cities to the pipeline in this round: Hamilton, London, Kitchener, Waterloo, St. Catharines, Barrie, Kelowna, Abbotsford, Kamloops, Nanaimo, Victoria, and Saskatoon. Each city required locating the relevant open-data endpoint (ArcGIS, Socrata, or direct CSV), mapping the schema to our standard fields, and running a full harvest. Hamilton and Kelowna had the richest commercial data; Kamloops required a provincial ArcGIS fallback. This is the start of what should eventually be a coast-to-coast product catalogue.
Retrospective overview — data pulled from City of Calgary Open Data (dataset c2es-76ed). Shovel Radar subscribers receive trade-routed Excel feeds covering the same source data plus cross-product enrichment (federal vendor flags, tax-appeal cross-references, AGLC licence overlays, recent-opening signals).