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Seven permit applications filed since Sept. 9 at 5425 Cloud Ct. in Lincoln, Nebraska, cover the power and cooling buildings for "data center building 3" at Google's northeast Lincoln campus, the largest at $11 million each.

The six-story office building at 1301 E. 4th Ave. in Tampa, Florida, future headquarters of Grow Financial and a new Ferguson office, has filed a $12.5 million application to build out its empty floors ahead of a December finish.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania issued a $26.2 million building permit on Oct. 22 to convert the Downtown steam plant at 120 Cecil Way, shut down in 2023, into 97 affordable apartments, part of a $76.9 million project.

A City of Tulsa permit dated Oct. 21 puts a reported $40.9 million on the interior of OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center's new $189 million building on the OU-Tulsa campus in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a year after the groundbreaking.

Hendersonville, Tennessee, aldermen unanimously annexed and rezoned 32.8 acres on Avant Lane for Avelyn, a gated subdivision of 36 for-sale homes, as city figures show commercial permits down about 30% and Forest Park townhomes go before the planning commission.

Issaquah, Washington, adopted Ordinance 3156 on Oct. 19, lowering off-street parking requirements in its development code ahead of the state deadline under the Parking Reform and Modernization Act (SB 5184) and HB 1183, with the new rules in effect Oct. 27.

Snohomish, Washington, holds a Planning Commission public hearing Wednesday, Nov. 4, on rewritten unit lot subdivision rules that would open the Midtown District to townhouse and cottage lots, and on code changes allowing child care centers in most zones, while the Bickford Avenue and Weaver Road signal project is out to bid.

Dickson, Tennessee, planners took up requests for 98 homes on Crestview Park Drive, 136 homes behind Oakmont School and 186 townhomes at the Villas at Buckner Place, set a Nov. 17 hearing on an industrial annexation, and Dickson County was picked for a state housing market analysis.

Marysville, Washington, has a five-story, 170-unit senior apartment building proposed on State Route 9, a 21-lot planned residential development called Creekside Crossing 2 under review, and a Planning Commission hearing Nov. 10 on rewritten critical areas rules for wetlands and steep slopes, as the City Council prepares to vote on its 2027-28 budget.

Lebanon, Tennessee, kept all four candidate sites for its new wastewater treatment plant on the table at the Oct. 20 City Council meeting, with engineers studying the land and the next council vote on Nov. 17.

Lakewood, Washington, put its draft 2027 Comprehensive Plan, zoning map and development code amendment docket before the City Council for a Nov. 2 public hearing, listing pre-approved ADU designs, taller residential fences, construction storage yards and four private rezones along Steilacoom Boulevard, Bridgeport Way and Maas Lane.

Lenoir City, Tennessee, will receive a $225,000 Downtown Improvement Grant from the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development for downtown building facades, signage, gateways and streetscapes, with the city matching a quarter of the award.

Kyle, Texas, City Council kept roundabouts at Center Street and Old Stagecoach Road and at Goforth Road and Bunton Creek Road, switched Windy Hill at Cherrywood and Lehman Road at Bunton Creek Road to continuous Green-T signal designs, and tabled the two Kohlers Crossing intersections until a vacant council seat is filled.

The Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, Board of Commissioners gave final approval to the 134-lot Kensington Ridge subdivision on West Division Street and set aside money for an impact fee study tied to Tuesday's Home Rule vote, as developers of a planned downtown district met with residents.

Puyallup, Washington, will hold a City Council public hearing Nov. 10 on its Phase 2 zoning map and code amendments, which would rezone parcels across the city to new mixed-use and neighborhood commercial zones, change what can be built in the South Hill Business Park, and follow a new Opportunity Zone designation near Good Samaritan Hospital.

Edmonds, Washington, has started repairs and upgrades to the underground Yost Reservoir beneath Yost Park, with Seaview Reservoir to follow in 2027, after the City Council extended its interim landmark tree ordinance and approved permanent zoning for four Westgate parcels.

The Cookeville, Tennessee, Planning Commission recommended a Redevelopment Area Overlay for a townhome subdivision on North Dixie Avenue and cleared several plats, while new data center zoning rules and a 100-plus-bed assisted living center on Salem Church Road head to hearings in November.

Buda, Texas, City Council held a hearing on routing part of the Old Black Colony Road reconstruction through about 3.89 acres of city parkland to avoid buying right-of-way from 12 property owners, then postponed its vote to Dec. 1; the bond-funded road project aims to break ground in late 2027.

Lynnwood, Washington, is reviewing eight detached accessory dwelling unit (DADU) designs for a pre-approved plan catalog it expects to open later this fall, aimed at faster building permits for backyard cottages.

Morristown, Tennessee's city council passed a zoning ordinance that allows data centers, cryptocurrency mining and server farms only as a use on review in the Heavy Industrial district, at least 500 feet from homes, schools and occupied government buildings.

San Marcos, Texas, City Council voted 7-0 to rezone about 4.6 acres on Wonder World Drive near State Highway 123 from Commercial to Business Park for a proposed Veterans Affairs medical development, a change that loosens where the site's parking can go.

Farragut, Tennessee, showed residents the first concept plan for a new park on Town-owned land at McFee and Boyd Station roads, and aldermen are now debating the plan's size and a proposed access road through the property.

Leander, Texas, City Council approved a four-phase plan for Oakwood Hills, a 337-acre, 188-lot subdivision north of Nameless Road and Shady Mountain Road, with the last homes waiting on a city water storage tank and line expected to start construction in fiscal year 2028.

Farragut, Tennessee, is waiting on a notice to proceed from the Tennessee Department of Transportation to start its long-planned Union Road improvement project, and the mayor says the work will move forward while the town answers residents' drainage and driveway questions.

Georgetown, Texas, City Council approved the public improvement district assessments and $20.89 million in city bonds for Heirloom, a planned 620-acre, 3,600-unit mixed-use development near Williams Drive and Ronald Reagan Boulevard, with a groundbreaking set for Nov. 5.

Jefferson City, Tennessee, is weighing a temporary moratorium on new developments because its water plant is producing well below its design capacity, even as the planning commission approved the 63-lot Cannon's Crossing final plat and a 39-lot site plan on Forgety Road.

New Orleans issued the building permit Oct. 27 for Rivana, a four-story, 220-unit income-restricted apartment building at Tchoupitoulas and Race streets, with a reported value of $64.5 million, the first housing in the 39-acre River District beside the convention center.

A $286.6 million permit application filed Oct. 22 covers the inside of the first building at Edged's 186-acre data center campus off I-20 in west Fort Worth, Texas, five months after the $300 million shell was filed.

The Prince George's County Council in Maryland gave final approval to the proposed Sphere at National Harbor, a roughly $1 billion venue for about 6,000 guests, though no construction start date has been announced.

Construction has started on The Kent, a seven-story apartment community with nearly four hundred units at 2631 Kramer Lane near The Domain in Austin, Texas, with first units expected in late 2028.

Baltimore, Maryland's spending board approved a 25-year tax deal for UMB's North Quad, a $160 million project with a 15-story, 404-unit graduate student building and street-level retail in the 600 block of West Lexington Street downtown.

A Seattle, Washington proposal called the MHA Accelerator would cut Mandatory Housing Affordability fees by 80% for vested projects and 60% for new ones, aiming to restart stalled apartment projects; it returns to committee in December, with a council vote possible in early January.

Chicago, Illinois' City Council cleared a run of new apartment buildings in October 2026, from 27 units in Andersonville to 50 affordable apartments and a food hall in East Garfield Park.

With Costco anchoring Freedom Farms, the Clarksville-Montgomery County Industrial Development Board in Tennessee is moving on the 69-acre Office Park next door, where it wants a roughly $80 million convention center, hotels, offices and retail.

Knoxville, Tennessee's City Council approved $750,000 on Oct. 27 for Union at Smoky Mountains, a $38 million, 100-unit apartment building planned at 360 Lovell Road in the Turkey Creek area of West Knoxville.

Oracle will break ground on its $4.5 billion world headquarters campus on Nashville, Tennessee's East Bank on Nov. 10, more than five years after the project was first announced, with public open-house days to follow.

Chicago, Illinois issued a $177.3 million building permit on Oct. 28 for the 6,000-seat music hall at 1904 W. Adams St., the first building of the Bulls and Blackhawks owners' $7 billion 1901 Project.

Chicago, Illinois issued a $5.4 million permit on Oct. 20 to renovate the Carole Robertson Center for Learning's early-childhood building at 3701 W. Ogden Ave., the second of three sites in the nonprofit's rebuild.

A City of Tulsa permit dated Oct. 20 puts a reported $83.7 million on Tulsa Tech's new office, classroom and lab building, the centerpiece of a $122 million rebuild of its 1965 flagship campus on Memorial Drive in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Seattle, Washington issued a $5.1 million building permit on Oct. 15 for 31 permanently affordable condos and ground-floor retail at 6740 Martin Luther King Jr. Way S., on land left over from building light rail through the Rainier Valley.

Chicago, Illinois issued a $6.5 million permit for a forced-air and drain system under Wrigley Field's playing surface, the latest in a year of permits as the Cubs ready the ballpark for the 2027 All-Star Game.

Woodinville, Washington, is weighing new 2027 school impact fees for the Northshore School District that would cut the fee on a new three-bedroom-plus house from $17,550 to $11,395 but add an $8,400 fee on new houses with two or fewer bedrooms, which pay nothing today.

Bothell, Washington's update to its Downtown Subarea Plan, first adopted in 2009, had a Planning Commission hearing on Oct. 21 and a City Council study session on Oct. 27, with a council public hearing set for Nov. 17 and adoption expected Dec. 8, while taller buildings, minimum densities and ground-floor retail rules wait for a 2027 zoning code update.

The Kirkland, Washington, City Council adopted Ordinance O-4950 on Oct. 20, a zoning code change that lets affordable housing on land owned by churches and other faith groups skip design review and get approved by city staff, with taller buildings allowed for projects with more affordable units.

Redmond, Washington's preliminary 2027-2028 budget would create a new city department focused on getting building permits approved faster, with eight new positions, a development fee study and its own enterprise fund, and the Redmond City Council is set to adopt the budget in November.

Mukilteo, Washington's hearing examiner denied a reasonable use permit for the Werner Mixed Use Project, a nine-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail in downtown Mukilteo, saying the record didn't show the wetland buffer impacts or mitigation; the applicant can reapply, and the appeal window closes Oct. 30.

Gallatin, Tennessee's city council approved up to $10.25 million in electric system bonds as the Gallatin Department of Electricity lines up $47.7 million in substation and system projects over five years, including a new Highway 109 North substation and a Nichols Lane rebuild, with a rate increase planned for January 2027.

The Smyrna, Tennessee, Town Council is heading to final votes on a 202-lot, age 55+ gated community at Bankside Drive and Kedron Church Road and on a zoning change that moves the site plan submittal deadline from 24 to 38 days before Planning Commission meetings, ahead of a new state law on development review.

The Mukilteo City Council in Mukilteo, Washington, voted 6-1 this month to rezone the waterfront parcel known as Lot 5, next to the ferry terminal, from open space to Waterfront Mixed Use, opening the door to a long-term lease for restaurants, shops and other businesses while keeping a park as an option.

The Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, city commission gave final approval to a zoning ordinance that allows data centers and "recreational substance sales" shops (tobacco, vape and THC/hemp stores) only in the city's M-1 industrial district along Ridge Road.

The owners of South Water Manor in Gallatin, Tennessee, have named their planned shipping container shopping center The Haven and now expect it to open in 2027, a year after the Gallatin Planning Commission approved two container-built commercial buildings on the historic property.

The former Bridgestone tire plant in La Vergne, Tennessee, has been sold for $90.7 million to developers who plan to tear it down and build a 1.5 million-square-foot, 10-building industrial park with a retail building at Waldron Road and Bridgestone Parkway.

Sevier County, Tennessee, commissioners abolished the Sevierville and Pigeon Forge regional planning regions, so subdivision plats, site plans and rezonings in the unincorporated growth areas around both cities now go through the Sevier County Planning Commission.

Rutherford County Sheriff Kenneth Barrett says the county hopes to break ground on a new jail off South Church Street in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, by the end of 2027, as commissioners keep pursuing the old fairgrounds site despite a dispute with its owners over price.

Everett, Washington, unveiled a pilot program Monday that uses AI to check accessory dwelling unit (ADU) building permit applications for missing documents before they are filed, aiming to cut a median wait of about eight months.

Housing Hope broke ground Tuesday on Bayside Landing in Everett, Washington, a 67-unit affordable apartment community for adults 55 and older on Rockefeller Avenue, with construction starting this fall and completion expected in 2028.

Construction has started in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on the Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Rehabilitation Hospital, a two-story, 40-bed inpatient rehab hospital planned to open in late 2027 near the Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford campus.

Developers of a proposed workforce housing project on Liberty Pike in Franklin, Tennessee, told aldermen and planning commissioners they may cut it from 180 units to about 70, as Alderman Beverly Burger argued the east side of I-65 already has too many apartments.

The Blount County Planning Commission in Maryville, Tennessee, voted 6-5 to deny the final plat for the next 39-lot section of the Manor in the Foothills subdivision on Best Road, despite a county attorney's warning that the denial could draw a lawsuit.

Franklin, Tennessee's Board of Mayor and Aldermen will hold a public hearing Nov. 10 on rezoning about 20 acres off Franklin Road for Harpeth Village, a plan for 187 apartments and 75,000 square feet of commercial space next to The Factory at Franklin.

The Montgomery County Commission in Clarksville, Tennessee, voted 17-4 for new zoning rules on future data centers, raising the setback from homes to 500 feet and sending the rules back to the Regional Planning Commission before a final vote next month.

Voters in the Auburn School District in Auburn, Washington, decide Nov. 3 on Proposition 1, a bond of up to $491 million to build a fifth middle school and replace Cascade Middle School and Alpac Elementary, on its third try after falling short of 60% twice.

Blount County, Tennessee, commissioners sent a proposed 12-month moratorium on new apartments, multifamily projects and subdivisions of more than 10 lots, plus a one-year pause on data centers, to the county Planning Commission, with final approval possible as early as January.

Spring Hill, Tennessee, approved a $12 million plan to pipe up to 1.5 million gallons of wastewater a day to Columbia, the city's biggest step yet toward more sewer capacity since the state froze new sewer connections in 2025.

The Kent hearing examiner in Kent, Washington, approved a critical areas variance for a roughly $10 million rebuild of the flood-prone Mill Creek Middle School track and field, with construction expected to start in spring 2027.

A Peninsula School District task force in Gig Harbor, Washington, recommended an $800 million, 20-year bond to replace Peninsula High, Gig Harbor High and the district bus barn and to build a shared stadium, pools and performing arts centers.

A joint Renton-Tukwila area in Renton, Washington, was among 99 places Gov. Bob Ferguson nominated for the federal Opportunity Zones 2.0 program, a tax break for investors who fund real estate development, with designations set to start in 2027.

Housing Resources Bainbridge broke ground on Finch Green, a 22-home permanently affordable subdivision on land donated by Bethany Lutheran Church on Bainbridge Island, Washington, with three-bedroom homes expected to sell for about $340,000.

The roof, HVAC, siding and window renovation at the Don Persson Renton Senior Activity Center in Renton, Washington, is on hold until HUD approves a Buy America waiver for HVAC parts made overseas, pushing completion to early 2027.

The Washington Department of Ecology approved a wetland permit for the proposed Bayview Ridge battery energy storage facility west of Burlington, Washington, in Skagit County, while the project's county special-use permit remains under appeal.

Skagit County and the Housing Authority of Skagit County are moving toward a joint request to the Washington Legislature for construction money to replace the aging Mount Vernon Senior Center in Mount Vernon, Washington, with three- or four-story senior apartments over parking.

Bowling Green, Kentucky, approved the first seven projects in its new Downtown Improvement Grant (DIG) program, splitting the cost of facade restoration, new windows, murals and parking lot work with downtown businesses, with a second round planned for February.

Seattle, Washington issued a $4.4 million permit on Oct. 19 to turn medical-office space at 1405 Sixth Ave. into the Seattle Chamber Music Society's 271-seat concert hall, set to open in early 2028.

Nashville, Tennessee issued a $39.0 million building permit on Oct. 22 for Second Harvest Food Bank's 200,000-square-foot headquarters at 1301 Donelson Pike, and the food bank broke ground on the campus five days later.

A City of Tulsa permit dated Oct. 20 puts a reported $52.2 million on the foundation for the first 411,564-square-foot building at Meta's Project Anthem, Oklahoma's first Meta data center.

A core-and-shell permit dated Oct. 22 puts a $79.4 million value on Amwins' new headquarters tower at 4415 Sharon Road in Charlotte, North Carolina's SouthPark, the first permit value we've seen for the biggest office project under way in the neighborhood.

Chicago, Illinois issued a $94 million enclosure permit on Oct. 20 for McDonald's Park, the Chicago Fire's privately funded soccer stadium at 1331 S. Wells St. in the South Loop. It is the fourth phase permit for the stadium since March.

Austin, Texas issued four building permits on Oct. 19 for the new Austin Convention Center at 500 E. 3rd St., each listing a reported value of $812.4 million, as steel starts rising on the $1.6 billion rebuild.

Bellevue, Washington is building a catalog of up to 10 city-reviewed designs for backyard homes and cottages that owners can buy at a set price, and it's asking residents which features the plans should have.

Chicago officials and developers JDL and Kayne Anderson broke ground last week on Foundry Park, the housing-first plan for the former Lincoln Yards land in Lincoln Park, with four buildings and a public square in the first phase.

The Home Builders Association of Greater Knoxville's Parade of Homes is open its last three days, Oct. 23 to 25, with 43 homes from about $306,000 to more than $5 million across five East Tennessee counties.

Seattle's Office of Housing picked five developments in Lake City, the Central Area, Rainier View, Highland Park and Delridge to build 77 permanently affordable homes for sale, from a 32-condo building on 23rd Avenue to four townhomes on Beacon Avenue.

Chicago issued a $22.6 million permit on October 16 for the riverwalk, park and landscaping at Bally's $1.7 billion casino on the old Tribune printing plant site, and the permit trail puts $580 million on the casino's interior buildout.

A $44 million building permit application filed Oct. 21 covers the conversion of the former Centrum Mall at 1111 O St. into Lincoln, Nebraska's new Central Library, a project now budgeted at $58.8 million.

A $288.6 million permit application filed Oct. 11 covers the four-story addition at the heart of the Fort Worth Convention Center's $606 million second phase, which replaces the domed 1968 arena in downtown Fort Worth, Texas.

Beverly Hills, California issued a $63 million building permit on October 10 for a seven-story, 140-apartment building at 55 N. La Cienega Blvd., the project its lender says will be the largest residential complex in the city's history.

Nashville, Tennessee issued the main building permit for Vanderbilt's Stevenson Center 6 research building on Sept. 29, listing $55.5 million in construction cost, while the city's hospitals filed nearly $95 million in renovation permits in under four weeks.

Austin, Texas issued five building permits on Oct. 13 for RBI Austin's youth baseball and mentoring complex at 7401 Loyola Lane, including a covered field building and an office and fitness building.

Austin, Texas issued the building permits on Oct. 16 to replace the 1973 Crossroads Apartments on McCann Drive with a four-story, 110-unit affordable building backed by $11.7 million in city housing money.

New York City issued the foundation and earthwork permits on October 15 for Metropolitan Park, the $8 billion Hard Rock casino and hotel planned for the Citi Field parking lots in Queens, moving the project from site prep to building.

Chicago, Illinois issued the main buildout permit on October 16 to turn the vacant 24-story office tower at 500 N. Michigan Ave. into 320 apartments, the largest office-to-housing conversion underway in the city.

Maryland unveiled plans for up to 1,600 homes at State Center, and Harborplace's $900 million rebuild is headed toward a start. Meanwhile Baltimore issued 499 residential permits in about three weeks, most of them for kitchens, baths, drywall, floors and windows inside existing houses.

Knoxville, Tennessee issued 185 new-home permits in July and August, its two busiest months of the year. Builders filed 21 more new houses in the first two weeks of October, many of them on paired infill lots. Out in South Knox County about 90 homes are lined up along Sevierville Pike.

Seattle, Washington, has issued the construction permit for the YWCA's seven-story replacement of its century-old Lexington-Concord apartments at 2402 Second Ave., with a reported value of $16.0 million, a figure the public coverage had not given.

Twenty months after snow brought down the roof of North Medford High School's gym, the City of Medford, Oregon, has issued a rebuild permit with a reported value of $19.3 million, the first public price on a project the school district had not put a figure on.

Charleston has issued the building permit for its own three-story office building at 1662 Ingram Road in West Ashley, on land it bought from the Catholic Diocese to keep an apartment complex off the site, with a July 2028 deadline set by an expiring downtown lease.

San Jose issued two permits on October 6 for "Trimble B," a residential and commercial shell and its parking garage, which match the second apartment building at Coyote Creek Village on the former Sakauye family farm in North San Jose.

We counted 22,449 building permits across 51 cities in 28 states over the latest 30 days of data. Here's where the most work is, where new homes are going up, and the biggest projects.

Chicago has now issued all three phase permits to turn the former Cboe headquarters at 400 S. LaSalle St. into a 33-megawatt data center. Together they carry a reported $206.2 million.

Baltimore issued 760 building permits worth a reported $606.0 million from September 10 to October 9, 2026, and two new Johns Hopkins buildings on Wyman Park Drive account for most of that value.

Austin issued 328 commercial building permits in September worth $115.9 million, and new filings included a $60 million warehouse, a $34 million East Austin hotel and a $19.5 million middle school expansion.

Metro Nashville issued 192 building permits worth $121.5 million, up from 177 permits and $68.2 million in the same week last year. A $55.5 million Vanderbilt research building led the week.