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Building permit activity in South Los Angeles, CA

Searching South Los Angeles permits for jobs to bid on? Skip the search. Every weekday morning we send the new projects that fit your trade, with who to call. 245 building permits filed or issued in the 30 days through November 4, 2026, with $17.9 million in reported value: a snapshot of what's being built.

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Updated Thu, Nov 5 · 245 permits since October 6, 2026 · from official building permit records
245permits filed or issued
$17.9Mreported value
62new homes
15commercial projects

What's being built in South Los Angeles

Kind of workPermits filed or issued
Home renovations and additions154
New homes62
Commercial renovations and build-outs15
Demolitions12
Pools, garages and other residential structures2

Largest commercial projects this month

  1. 2620 S Orchard Ave: $300,000. ,Alterations to existing 2-story, 16-unit apartment building
  2. 2922 S Crenshaw Blvd 108: $200,000. Tenant improvment and change of use from an existing empty retal tenant space for customer care center for los angeles…
  3. 1732 W Florence Ave: $150,000. Attn:Tenant Improvement to Existing Cocktail Lounge with HDCP upgrades to public bathrooms, path of travel, kitchen and…
  4. 3800 S Figueroa St E: $150,000. Change of use from retail to ice cream parlor
  5. 3858 S Broadway Pl: $80,000. Tenant improvement to (e) single story industrial building. ( interior remodeling - no change of use, no floor addition…
  6. 5217 W Village Grn: $65,000. Interior alteration to create new powder room on ground floor within existing floor area. Remodel existing 2nd floor…

31 different contractors were named on these permits. A Morningline report names the people behind each new job, every weekday.

How Morningline works

  1. Overnight, we read the permits. Every new South Los Angeles building permit, the day the city publishes it.
  2. We pick the jobs that fit your trade and research who's behind each one: the builder, the owner, the company that just bought the house.
  3. By morning, it's in your inbox: a short call list with phone numbers, so you call first.

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Construction research for South Los Angeles contractors and suppliers

This page is a weekly snapshot. Morningline reports are daily. Every weekday morning we pick the new projects in South Los Angeles that fit your trade, research the people behind them, and email you the list. One company per trade in each area.

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How we count

Building permits filed or issued from October 6, 2026 through November 4, 2026, the most recent 30 days of South Los Angeles data we hold (permits filed or issued: this city does not publish an issue date for every permit). This area page combines the City of Los Angeles's South Los Angeles planning area, Hawthorne, Huntington Park and Vernon, from each one's public building permit records. Each permit is counted once. Values are the valuations reported on the permits, leaving out obvious data-entry errors; a project filed as several permits is valued once. Contractor counts are companies named on the permits.

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