SPARTANBURG -- Fewer residential building permits were issued in Spartanburg County last year, with builders slowing a brisk construction pace set in 2005 and 2006. According to a report conducted by The Market Edge, a Tennessee-based company that tracks residential building trends, 1,810 permits were issued in 2007, a 13.8 percent drop from the 2,100 permits issued in 2006. The decline follows a 13.2 percent spike in 2005 to 2,193 building permits. Spartanburg's building permit numbers in 2003 and 2004 were 1,640 and 1,937.

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