Nonresidential Construction

Nonresidential construction data provides a region-wide view of commercial, industrial and public building activity. The Metropolitan Council gathers the information through a construction survey sent to all communities in the seven-county area.

Communities are asked to report permits with a value of at least $100,000. Only new projects and building additions are included, with the goal of measuring the amount and type of new space added to the region. (Metropolitan Council does not count permits issued for alterations and renovations that do not add square footage.) Survey data is supplemented by Service Availability Charge records collected by Environmental Services at the Metropolitan Council, and other information sources.

Summary reports and analysis of the data for each year are provided in pdf format. More detailed information on individual projects is contained in Excel files for each year.

2006 Nonresidential Construction – (1.18 MB, pdf)
- Detail of projects - Excel (157k)

2005 Nonresidential Construction – (2.96 MB, pdf)
- Detail of projects - Excel (146k)

2004 Nonresidential Construction – (2.59 MB, pdf)
- Detail of projects – Excel (148k)

2003 Nonresidential Construction – (123k, pdf)
- Detail of projects – Excel (218k)

2002 Nonresidential Construction – (72k, pdf)
- Detail of projects - Excel (195k)