Single-family new house construction building permits: 1  1997: 18 buildings, average cost: $115,800. 2  1998: 19 buildings, average cost: $115,800. 3  1999: 19 buildings, average cost: $115,800. 4  2000: 18 buildings, average cost: $115,800. 5  2001: 4 buildings, average cost: $105,800. 6  2002: 6 buildings, average cost: $114,500.
By Charlie Wilmoth |. at. Cardinals outfielder Oscar Taveras has died in a car accident in Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic, Dionisio Soldevila of ESPNDeportes confirms (via Twitter). Taverasâ girlfriend, 18-year-old Edilia Arvelo, also reportedly passed away.
Published: July 15, 1992. Oscar Lewis, one of the first historians to write seriously about the literary, cultural and social history of the American West, died at his home in San Francisco on Saturday. He was 99 years old. He died after two years of declining health, said his stepson, Addison Mooney of San Francisco.