Community

Bowness building permits

Bowness is listed in the City of Calgary open data as BOWNESS (community code BOW). The sections below are calculated from the permit rows stored under that name.

Stored permits
718
With an issued date
517
Without an issued date
201

Bowness has 718 building permit records in CalgaryPermit's copy of the City of Calgary Building Permits open data. 517 have an issued date and 201 do not. These figures describe the rows stored on this site, not an official citywide total. The earliest applied date stored for this community is 2000-07-14 and the latest is 2026-10-30.

In the stored rows, the most common permit type label is Residential Improvement Project (290 records), and the most common work class is New (331 records). Permit type is the City's project category. Work class says whether the job is new construction, an alteration, an addition, a repair, a demolition, or another label the feed uses. Read both with the permit class and the description on each record. A type label alone does not say whether the City has issued the permit.

An estimated project cost is filled in on 436 of 718 stored permits. The average of those reported estimates is $364,300.91 and the sum is $158,835,195.24. The City publishes estprojectcost as an estimate attached to the application. It is not a contract price, a final invoice, or a City assessment, and permits with a blank estimate are left out of both numbers.

Applications with an applied date in the last 12 months: 189. Applications with an applied date in the 12 months before that: 287. If the older window is small, the usual reason is that this site's copy does not go back that far for the community, not that the neighbourhood had no construction.

The contractor name published most often in this community's stored permits is CREATIVE SOLUTIONS CONTRACTING SERVICES, on 18 permits. A repeated name is a clue that the company appears in the open data. It is not a City ranking, a licence check, or a count of crews on site. The same firm can be spelled more than one way, and a blank contractor name means the City did not publish one on that row.

Source: City of Calgary Open Data — Building Permits (dataset c2es-76ed). CalgaryPermit stores a copy of that feed and calculates the figures on this page from that copy. The City of Calgary is the publisher of the original file.

Permit type
Label in the stored copyPermits
Residential Improvement Project290
Commercial / Multi Family Project198
Demolition139
Single Construction Permit90
Environmental Restoration Permit1
Work class
Label in the stored copyPermits
New331
Alteration209
Demolition139
Addition22
Fire/ Security Alarm7
Repair5
Temporary4
Unspecified1
Mapped permit class
Label in the stored copyPermits
Residential524
Unspecified128
Non-Residential66
Current status
Label in the stored copyPermits
Completed255
Issued Permit217
Cancelled119
Pre Backfill Phase46
Hold21
Application Received12
New12
Refused12
Pending Plans Review Assignment11
In Review3
Pending Plans Review3
Expired2
Hold - Completeness Review1
Hold - Pending Plans Review1
Pending - Building By-Law Review1
Pending Prescreen Review1
Pre Board Phase1

Reported cost estimates

436 of 718 stored permits include an estimated project cost. The average of those estimates is $364,300.91 and the sum is $158,835,195.24. Permits with a blank estimate are not in either figure.

Applications by month

Each row is the number of stored permits whose applied date falls in that month, for the last 24 months present in the copy. Applied in the last 12 months: 189. Applied in the previous 12 months: 287.

MonthApplications
2024-1225
2025-0123
2025-0219
2025-0315
2025-0424
2025-0534
2025-0634
2025-0730
2025-0814
2025-0931
2025-1023
2025-1124
2025-1219
2026-0116
2026-0218
2026-036
2026-0420
2026-0511
2026-0612
2026-079
2026-0817
2026-0919
2026-1020

Contractor names published in this community

Name in the open dataPermitsLatest applied date
CREATIVE SOLUTIONS CONTRACTING SERVICES18August 17, 2026
BAIDWAN CONSTRUCTION17September 12, 2025
WESTERN ONE EXCAVATION16September 18, 2026
CLOVERHILL CONSTRUCTION15September 5, 2026
SARAI CUSTOM HOMES12September 28, 2026
EAGLE CREST CONSTRUCTION11December 30, 2025
OPTIMA DEVELOPMENTS11February 3, 2026
MORCOR HOMES9September 21, 2026

Recent permits

PermitAddressWorkAppliedIssued
BP2026-20881
Application Received
3313 77 ST NWRepair · Residential Improvement Project
Repair
October 30, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-20744
Pending Plans Review Assignment
8530 47 AV NWAlteration · Commercial / Multi Family ProjectOctober 28, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-20382
Application Received
4604B 70 ST NWNew · Commercial / Multi Family ProjectOctober 23, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-20381
Application Received
4604B 70 ST NWNew · Commercial / Multi Family ProjectOctober 23, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-20235
Issued Permit
23 BEAUPRE CR NWNew · Residential Improvement Project
Garage
October 21, 2026October 30, 2026
BP2026-20169
Application Received
6640 BOWNESS RD NWNew · Commercial / Multi Family ProjectOctober 21, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-20257
New
6348 BOWMONT CR NWAlteration · Residential Improvement Project
Improvements
October 21, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-20107
Issued Permit
#2 5912 BOWNESS RD NWDemolition · DemolitionOctober 20, 2026October 29, 2026
BP2026-19871
Application Received
#101 6919 32 AV NWAlteration · Commercial / Multi Family ProjectOctober 16, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-19815
Application Received
4367 69 ST NWNew · Commercial / Multi Family ProjectOctober 15, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-19784
Issued Permit
8131 44 AV NWDemolition · DemolitionOctober 15, 2026October 23, 2026
BP2026-19683
Application Received
#113 6404 BOWNESS RD NWAlteration · Commercial / Multi Family ProjectOctober 14, 2026No issued date stored

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