Permits Recorded
13,977
Jan 1 – Jul 19, 2026
Declared Value
$469.5M
Applicant-reported
Leading Asset Class
84%
Other
Executive summary
PropertyLabs recorded 13,977 building permits in Minneapolis between January 1 and July 19, 2026, spanning every stage of the pipeline from application through completion. Combined declared construction value across those permits totals $469.5M. Downtown West led all communities by declared value.
Key findings
Other is the leading asset class in Minneapolis, at 84% of counted permits (11760 of 13977).
Downtown West leads all communities on declared value at $79.6M across 376 permits.
The largest recorded project is at 1600 HENNEPIN AVE, Loring Park, declared at $20.0M.
Permit volume ran from 1872 in the earliest recorded month to 1172 in the latest — a snapshot of a live, moving pipeline rather than a finished period.
Data visualizations
Permit volume by month
Permits by asset class
Geographic analysis
Downtown West leads Minneapolis on declared value, followed by North Loop and Loring Park. The table below ranks the top communities captured in this export by total declared construction value.
| Community | Permits | Declared Value |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown West | 376 | $79.6M |
| North Loop | 208 | $30.9M |
| Loring Park | 112 | $28.6M |
| Linden Hills | 477 | $27.3M |
| Longfellow | 165 | $19.9M |
| Midtown Phillips | 100 | $17.2M |
| Bottineau | 54 | $15.3M |
| Ventura Village | 72 | $13.8M |
Largest recorded project
1600 HENNEPIN AVE · Loring Park
REPAIR ROOF, STONE, INTERIOR & EXTERIOR, FLOORS, WINDOWS, ETC const type: IIB occupancy: A-3 2020 MSBC architect: 46544 - Lackovic, Virginia Alison @ HGA engineer: 43863 - Cotton, Sean C. @ WJE
Minneapolis's $469.5M in recorded declared value this period is a floor, not a ceiling — a meaningful share of permits in any city's data carry no declared value at all.
Methodology
This brief is built from Minneapolis's municipal permit data, normalized into PropertyLabs' unified permit schema. Figures count every permit recorded between January 1 and July 19, 2026, across all statuses — applications, reviews, issuances, and completions — so they describe the full pipeline, not just approvals. Where a municipality repeats a single master-project valuation across many sub-permits of one site, that valuation is counted once. This is a point-in-time snapshot (July 2026), not a full historical series.
Sources and limitations
Source: Minneapolis municipal open data / permit portal, extracted July 2026.
This snapshot reflects only the permits captured in PropertyLabs' most recent Minneapolis export and should not be read as a complete historical series. Unit counts are not consistently reported in this dataset and are omitted from totals. Figures are not comparable year-over-year from this file alone.
View live Minneapolis permit dataCitation & provenance
- Publisher
- PropertyLabs Research
- Last updated
- July 2026
- Municipal source
- Minneapolis Open Data
- Methodology
- Read the methodology
Suggested citation: PropertyLabs Research. "Minneapolis Building Permit Activity: July 2026 Snapshot." Updated July 2026. https://propertylabs.org/resources/minneapolis-building-permit-activity
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