Community

Downtown West End building permits

Downtown West End is listed in the City of Calgary open data as DOWNTOWN WEST END (community code DNW). The sections below are calculated from the permit rows stored under that name.

Stored permits
65
With an issued date
41
Without an issued date
24

Downtown West End has 65 building permit records in CalgaryPermit's copy of the City of Calgary Building Permits open data. 41 have an issued date and 24 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 2000-03-13 and the latest is 2026-10-08.

In the stored rows, the most common permit type label is Commercial / Multi Family Project (63 records), and the most common work class is Alteration (40 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 46 of 65 stored permits. The average of those reported estimates is $2,268,030.78 and the sum is $104,329,415.94. 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: 18. Applications with an applied date in the 12 months before that: 26. 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 CIDEX DEVELOPMENT, on 2 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
Commercial / Multi Family Project63
Residential Improvement Project2
Work class
Label in the stored copyPermits
Alteration40
Temporary8
Fire/ Security Alarm6
New5
Repair3
Addition2
Unspecified1
Mapped permit class
Label in the stored copyPermits
Non-Residential49
Residential14
Unspecified2
Current status
Label in the stored copyPermits
Completed22
Issued Permit19
Cancelled17
Pending Plans Review Assignment4
Application Received1
Hold1
Pending Completeness Review1

Reported cost estimates

46 of 65 stored permits include an estimated project cost. The average of those estimates is $2,268,030.78 and the sum is $104,329,415.94. 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: 18. Applied in the previous 12 months: 26.

MonthApplications
2024-125
2025-012
2025-021
2025-032
2025-044
2025-054
2025-062
2025-071
2025-082
2025-091
2025-102
2025-121
2026-011
2026-023
2026-033
2026-041
2026-051
2026-062
2026-073
2026-081
2026-091
2026-101

Contractor names published in this community

Name in the open dataPermitsLatest applied date
CIDEX DEVELOPMENT2December 17, 2024
MCA CONSTRUCTION GROUP2February 13, 2026
BAUCE CONSTRUCTION1July 27, 2004
BRENTON CONSTRUCTION1August 28, 2026
CANA MANAGEMENT1May 1, 2026
CORNERSTONE ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS1December 3, 2021
DELNOR CONSTRUCTION1July 15, 2025
FIRE ANT CONTRACTING1May 29, 2025

Recent permits

PermitAddressWorkAppliedIssued
BP2026-19340
Pending Plans Review Assignment
#201 1104 6 AV SWAlteration · Commercial / Multi Family ProjectOctober 8, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-17649
Issued Permit
#1001 850 11 ST SWRepair · Commercial / Multi Family Project
Replacement of broken glass panels
September 15, 2026October 16, 2026
BP2026-16462
Issued Permit
#300 1040 7 AV SWAlteration · Commercial / Multi Family Project
Interior Alterations - Whitebox
August 28, 2026September 15, 2026
BP2026-14065
Issued Permit
1220 9 AV SWTemporary · Commercial / Multi Family Project
Special Function & Temporary Tent Structures- Carifest
July 27, 2026July 28, 2026
BP2026-13393
Issued Permit
1220 9 AV SWTemporary · Commercial / Multi Family Project
Tier 3 Temporary Tents/ Structures - Calgary Halal Food Festival
July 17, 2026July 30, 2026
BP2026-13228
Completed
701 11 ST SWTemporary · Commercial / Multi Family Project
Temporary - Tent
July 15, 2026August 12, 2026
BP2026-12063
Issued Permit
1220 9 AV SWTemporary · Commercial / Multi Family Project
Special Event Tents Permit
June 29, 2026July 21, 2026
BP2026-11332
Issued Permit
#600 1000 5 AV SWAlteration · Commercial / Multi Family Project
Interior Alteration - CCSD Office
June 19, 2026July 15, 2026
BP2026-07309
Issued Permit
#101 1000 8 AV SWAlteration · Commercial / Multi Family Project
Interior demolition
May 1, 2026July 29, 2026
BP2026-05680
Issued Permit
#200 683 10 ST SWAlteration · Commercial / Multi Family Project
HVAC Review for Nail Salon - Group D (Under Guidelines for Single Tenant Concept)
April 10, 2026July 20, 2026
BP2026-04064
Pending Plans Review Assignment
#210 1110 9 AV SWAlteration · Commercial / Multi Family ProjectMarch 17, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-04017
Issued Permit
#215 750 11 ST SWAlteration · Commercial / Multi Family Project
Tenancy change
March 16, 2026October 26, 2026

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