Building permit leads in Commerce
Commerce's counter isn't switched on yet. We're still mapping which permit system the city runs. The nightly sweep starts the day we have a road in, and the first scored leads reach subscribers the morning after.
Why Commerce permits will be worth watching
Commerce is an industrial city by design, rail-served warehouses and food processors, with almost no residential to dilute the signal.
A building permit is the earliest public record most projects ever produce, filed months before anything reaches a bid board or the trade press. Around Commerce, Los Angeles County's market runs on studio and media facilities, corporate campuses, hospitality from downtown to the beach cities, and one of the busiest tenant improvement markets in the country, and the live counters linked below are already being read nightly.