Permit Watch · Berkeley
Commercial building permits in Berkeley
New commercial jobs worth a call for electrical, HVAC, refrigeration and plumbing shops, picked from Berkeley's own permit records every weekday. Updated October 17, 2026.
Commercial jobs only. Looking up a permit for a home? Berkeley lets anyone search its records on its own permit site.
Sample: jobs from two to four weeks ago
Here's what a Permit Watch list looks like. This week's jobs go to pilot members first; the public sample is older.
- 1829 EUCLID Ave, BerkeleyJust filedKitchen / refrigeration
Tenant improvements to an existing restaurant to create Spilled Tea Bookstore & Café. Food-service equipment, new HVAC system, Upgrade service to 200A, provide new power…
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About Berkeley's permit records
Of the permits we read in full here, the city's record shows job value on 81% and a contractor named on 57%. Source: City of Berkeley building-permit records. See every source and how complete it is on the data report card. New to this? Read how to find commercial work before it's bid.
Other cities we cover
- San Francisco
- San José
- Oakland
- Fremont
- Hayward
- Concord
- Walnut Creek
- Pleasanton
- Dublin
- San Ramon
- Santa Clara
- Sunnyvale
- Milpitas
- Campbell
- San Mateo
- Menlo Park
- Marin County (unincorporated)
Copied from public permit records as published and not independently verified; a permit doesn't guarantee a project goes ahead. How we sort records.