Major apartment block approval pushes city’s building permit numbers beyond 2024 totals

By Medicine Hat News on May 23, 2025.

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New apartment construction has pushed building permit numbers in 2025 well past last year’s total.

The City of Medicine Hat’s planning department states in April’s summary that approval of a 189-unit new apartment block on Dunmore Road has an estimated construction value of $21.8 million.

That pushes the cumulative construction values permitted so far this year to $32.9 million, or about $8.6 million more than through four months last year.

April 2024 also featured a major apartment project, the $10 million, 79-unit building that is now nearing completion on Second Street in the North River Flats. That brings the total number of new multi-family residential units in the city coming online to 283, including smaller projects.

Single-family housing activity continues to languish however, with just three new permits in April and nine for the year (one more than in the spring of 2024, though at a much higher value of construction).

Duplex spending for the year is about even, while tri- and four-plex projects are also one higher.

Non-residential construction was muted in the month, while the value of home permits was double the previous April at $670,000 on a similar number of projects.

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