Items Tagged with '2017 forecast'

Total Construction Spending Expected to Continue Its Steady Growth Pattern in 2017

Total Construction Spending Expected to Climb More Than 27% to $3.8 Billion This Year

Construction Starts Expected to Rise Slightly This Year After Strong Growth in 2016

Some states in the region could see as much as a 6% increase in construction starts this coming year; others will struggle with declining state revenues and population loss.

The forecast calls for a gain of 63,400 jobs in Colorado in 2017.

The ink barely had dried on this year’s batch of construction market forecasts when economists had to take a second look at their numbers to evaluate the impact of Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election, which brought with it a Republican-controlled Senate and House.