Commercial New Construction
Ground-up commercial buildings — offices, retail, mixed-use.
191K permits classified across 33 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 commercial new construction permits are classified today, ranked by volume. Metros with recent activity link straight into the live browse; the rest show their all-time classified count.
- New York City35K
- Los Angeles →24K
- Columbus22K
- Charlotte16K
- Phoenix →14K
- Fort Worth →13K
- Washington, DC →11K
- Austin10K
- Chicago →8,903
- Las Vegas →8,896
- Denver →3,630
- Seattle →3,373
- Raleigh →2,424
- San Antonio →2,149
- Philadelphia →2,063
- San Francisco1,793
- Nashville →1,435
- Hartford1,301
- Cleveland →853
- Boston →846
- Norfolk793
- Memphis719
- Milwaukee →687
- Cincinnati →531
- Pittsburgh →505
- Sacramento →489
- Tucson →402
- Detroit →353
- Baltimore →308
- Atlanta294
- Louisville →128
- Miami →84
- San Jose →67
Recent commercial new construction permits
Real permits classified into Commercial New Construction in the last 30 days.
- 10723 STILLWATER AVENew / Construction / Commercial$185K2026-07-02Washington, DC
- 14221 BOGGY CREEK RDNew / Construction / Commercial$5.2M2026-07-02Orlando
- 121 LUTTRELL STREETNew / Construction / Commercial$4.5M2026-07-02Fort Worth
- 2900 N WESTERN AVENew / Construction / Commercial$500K2026-07-01Chicago
- 4343 E WARNER RDNew / Construction / Commercial—2026-07-01Phoenix
- 2777 N Zuni STNew / Construction / Commercial$56.6M2026-07-01Denver
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.