A year of Baytown building permits: warehouses, a new ER, and 136 new homes

Where these numbers come from

Every month, the city of Baytown posts a permit report: the date, permit number, address, business name, square footage and the construction value the applicant declared. We combined the twelve reports for the city's 2026 fiscal year, October 2025 through September 2026.

Declared value is what the work is expected to cost to build, as stated on the application. It is not the property's market value, and it leaves out land. The city's October report prints 15 permit lines more than once, which we counted once. And a few projects carry the same value on two permits, such as a building and its site work; Fire Station 2, for example, is listed at $9.4 million twice. Together those twins add about $14 million, which is why we give both totals. We do not publish the addresses of private homes.

The biggest commercial permits

Ranked by declared value:

• Goose Creek Commerce Center, 7100 Bass Boulevard: about $46.6 million on the permit for a 417,337-square-foot building. The same report lists a second, 351,521-square-foot building at 7200 Bass Boulevard at $0, and the state's accessibility-review registry lists the two buildings at about $21.3 million and $25.3 million, together almost exactly that total, so the figure appears to cover both.
• Goose Creek Logistics Center, 3715 East I-10, the address the state lists for the same campus: site work, $10 million.
• Houston Methodist Baytown Emergency Care Center, 10310 East I-10: about $9.5 million for the building, plus site work.
• City of Baytown Fire Station 2, 2505 Market Street: about $9.4 million.
• EoS Fitness at the San Jacinto Marketplace, 6921 Garth Road: about $6 million.
• Maplewood Phase 2 Building (East), 7505 Gateway Boulevard: about $5.6 million.
• East Coast Warehouse, 9200 FM 1405: a $5 million renovation.
• Tia Juanita's Fish Camp, Chambers Commons: about $4.2 million.
• Dick's Sporting Goods, 6921 Garth Road: a $4.2 million build-out.
• St. Joseph Catholic Church, 1907 Carolina Street: about $3.7 million.

The busiest corner in Baytown this year was the old mall site on Garth Road, now the San Jacinto Marketplace

The busiest corner in town

The busiest corner in Baytown this year was the old mall site on Garth Road, now the San Jacinto Marketplace: about 30 permits and $30 million in declared value on the 6800 and 6900 blocks. Besides Dick's and EoS Fitness, the reports show build-out permits for HomeGoods ($1.5 million), Havertys ($1.5 million), Burlington ($1.4 million) and Ross ($1.25 million), new construction permits for Pluckers ($3.2 million) and four multitenant buildings at about $2 million each, and sign permits for the San Jacinto Marketplace itself. A commercial pool for EoS Fitness was permitted in September.

Along I-10, Love's, Pilot and QuikTrip filed for new construction or renovation, and FedEx filed a $2.3 million renovation of a 122,083-square-foot building. Panda Express filed for a new restaurant on Highway 146.

New homes

The reports list 136 permits for new homes over the twelve months, counting each half of a duplex separately. The median declared construction value was about $269,000, and the median size about 2,239 square feet. The pace was uneven: 23 permits in April, 3 in March, 4 in July. There were also 27 permits to place manufactured homes, 94 for home remodels and additions, and 66 for residential fences.

Who opened the doors

A certificate of occupancy is the city's sign-off that a business can move into a space. The reports list 79 commercial certificates over the year. They range from apartment complexes and a truck stop to a tortilleria, an Italian restaurant, a tea restaurant, a beauty academy, a community health clinic and a seasonal Halloween store.

What this does not show

Permits show intent, not completion. Some projects permitted this year will not finish until next year, and a few may never be built. The reports also do not include work outside the city limits or projects permitted by other agencies.

Read the fine print

• Totals are our sums of the city's twelve monthly reports, read from the posted PDF files.
• Declared values are the applicants' estimates of construction cost.
• Some projects appear under more than one permit, for example a building and its site work, adding about $14 million to the gross total.
• The new-home value median leaves out two permits with no declared value, and the size median two with no square footage.

Before you go

• If you plan to build, add on or put up a fence, check with the city whether you need a permit first.
• If a new business is coming to your corner, the monthly permit report is often the first public sign.

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Sources

• City of Baytown, Monthly Permit Reports, October 2025 through September 2026 (https://www.baytown.org/Archive.aspx?AMID=91)
• Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, architectural barriers project TABS2025008392, Goose Creek Commerce Center Bldg 2 (https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Search/Print/TABS2025008392)
• Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, architectural barriers project TABS2025008391, Goose Creek Commerce Center Bldg 1 (https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Projects/TABS2025008391)
• Fidelis, San Jacinto Marketplace (https://www.frpltd.com/blog/renaissance-of-retail-houstons-sprawling-open-air-marketplace-slated-for-late-2026-grand-opening)

En español

De octubre de 2025 a septiembre de 2026, los reportes mensuales de la ciudad de Baytown muestran 920 permisos y certificados, con unos $230 millones en valor declarado, o unos $216 millones sin contar dos veces los proyectos con dos permisos. El permiso más grande, de unos $46.6 millones, fue para el Goose Creek Commerce Center y parece cubrir dos almacenes. El antiguo terreno del centro comercial en Garth Road fue la esquina más activa, con permisos para Dick's, HomeGoods, Burlington, Ross, Havertys y EoS Fitness. Hubo 136 permisos para casas nuevas, con un valor medio declarado de unos $269,000. El valor declarado es el costo estimado de construcción, no el valor de mercado.