Building permit leads in San Marcos
San Marcos'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 San Marcos permits will be worth watching
San Marcos is a university city mid-buildout, campus growth, restaurant row, and a planned downtown still under construction.
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 San Marcos, San Diego County's market runs on biotech and life-science campuses in Sorrento Valley and Torrey Pines, the convention and Gaslamp hospitality corridor, and defense contractors across Kearny Mesa, and the live counters linked below are already being read nightly.