Each week, we get the city and county building permits e-mailed to us by the respective offices. This week's city permits include an observation by Lucretia Boyle Wright from that office:

Looks like the building business increased in June. We have more commercial projects in progress now - more than we've had going on at the same time over any period in the last several years. We've seen an increase in new residential construction, as well.

That sounds like good economic news to me.