The pace of home construction cooled last month in El Paso County, according to a report Monday by the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department. The department, which oversees residential and commercial construction, issued 235 single-family homebuilding permits in October in Colorado Springs and El Paso County. That's down by nearly 8 percent compared with the number of permits issued in October 2104; the decline breaks a string of eight straight monthly increases in permit totals on a year-over-year basis. Despite last month's decline, single- family permits for the first 10 months of 2015 totaled 2,369 - an 11.1 percent increase compared with the same period last year. Read more on...
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