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'71 City Building Permits
Are Record $87,207,885
Shreveport building permits
t ot a 1 e d a record $87,207,885
during 1971, an increase of
$44,961,708 over 1970, according
to a report issued Thursday by
W. H. Willoughby, city director
of permits and inspection.
Willoughby, who had predict-ed
a record year for 1971
several month ago, pointed out
that the year's total is more
than twice the old record, $42.6
million in 1969.
Four types of construction are
r e f l e c t e d in the r e p o r t —
residential, $39,411,603; new
commercial, $36,157,840; com-mercial
alterations, $9,906,321,
and industrial, $1,732,121.
Dave C. McGinness, c h i e f
building inspector, said the 1971
dollar total would J)feve been
even higher had his department
not estimated construction costs
so conservatively. The figure
the department used is $9 per
square foot, McGuinness ex-plained,
which is about 20 per
cent under actual costs.
Residental construction ac-counted
for the largest share of
the 1971 total. Permits issued
this type construction totaled
$39,411,603. I n c l u d e d in this
figure are 1,750 o n e - f a m i l y
dwellings for $21.9 million, com-pared
with 1,215 for $13.8 million
in 1970. Willoughby estimated
that 60 per cent of the 1971
dwellings were 235 homes.
The most spectacular gain in
residential construction for the
year involved apartment pro-jects.
Ten such projects were
approved by the city in 1971 at
an e s t i m a t e d cost of $11.9
million. Only two apartment
projects were approved in 1970;
they totaled slightly over $1
million.
Despite the dramatic jump in
apartment construction h e r e ,
Willoughby s a i d , Shreveport
lags other cities in this catego-ry.
Three areas of residential
construction were down in 1971
compared with the previous
year. These areas: m o b i l e
h o m e s , $69,424 vs. $102,967;
duplexes, zero vs. $13,698, and
repairs, 1.8 million vs. 1.9
million.
The l a r g e s t permit issued
during the year was for the LSU
Medical School, $24,039,000. Oth-er
new commercial projects
included 29 shops and stores,
$4,021,264; the LSU-S classroom
building, $2,193,000, and a motel,
Commercial alterations i n
1971 included repairs to 398
buildings at $3,733,027 vs. 446
buildings at $1,732,831 in 1970.
The i n d u s t r i a l category,
$1,732,121, a p p l i e s to plants,
warehouses and industrial re-pairs
and additions.
Building permits issued in
1971 in all categories totaled
6,573, up 793 over the 5,780
figure for 1970.
12-31-71
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| Title | 71 City Building Permits are Record $87,207,885 |
| Subject |
Construction Louisiana State University School of Medicine (Shreveport, La.) Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (Shreveport, La.) |
| Date | 12/31/1971 |
| Identifier | See reference URL on the navigation bar. |
| Source | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Medical Library (http://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu) |
| Language | en |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_LSUHSCS_NPC.php?CISOROOT=/LSUHSCS_NPC |
| Coverage-Spatial | Shreveport (Caddo, La.) |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. |
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