NEWS
New home market on the rise; larger homes, tiny home driving it
By BARBARA GREEN
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Despite a five-month pandemic that has halted business and slowed supply chains and a May tornado that destroyed businesses and homes, Bowie appears to be experiencing a building boom with more than a dozen new homes under construction or recently completed within the last year.
Reviewing the permit fee list from Oct. 1, 2019 through June 29, 2020 reveals building permits for new residential homes totaling $1,334,000. The average home building value is $166,750 with a low of $75,000 to a high of $350,000.
Two of the building permits were pulled in October and December, one in January, two in March, April and May, and one in June most in the midst of the pandemic
The single-family homes are spread out across the community. Four are under construction in the Northpark subdivision; two have been built and one more is under construction at Jackson and London Streets; two are up for sale on Jefferson Street; one is completed on Sanders and one on Pillar and two are under construction on East Clay.
There may be others, but this story focuses on those permitted in this fiscal year through the end of June.
Read the full news story in the mid-week Bowie News.
The regular meeting of the Bowie City Council for July 22 has been cancelled. City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris will be attending the Texas Public Power Association conference.
City of Bowie officials were on hand to inspect the emergency electrical generators that were delivered last week.
Mayor Gaylynn Burris and City Manager Bert Cunningham inspected one of three emergency electrical generators purchased as part of an ongoing Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Grant. They also talked with Jay Evans, head of the city electric department, and Jerry Sutton, director of the water treatment plant about the next step for installation of the generators.
This grant provides funding for one 150 kW and two 250 kW generators for use at the water treatment plant.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris talk with the electric and water department staff about the new generators. (Photo by Cindy Roller)
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