ACS Group Inc.

ACS Group Inc. leaves a permit trail rather than a review page. Both of its directory profiles show empty review sections — the Houzz one still displays its "You could be the first review" prompt — so everything known about this Malden company comes from the buildings it has put up. And those are substantial. BuildZoom's permit history, filed under licence holder Mucio M Aquino with ACS Group Inc as the business address in Reading, records 24 permitted projects between 2013 and 2024: a $6.5 million South Boston building holding a restaurant and 18 apartments, a $4.1 million 17-unit project on Pleasant Street in Dorchester, a $1.3 million restaurant fit-up on Dorchester Street, five new townhouses in Everett. Its own Houzz page shows the same jobs from the company's side — Essex Street Lofts, Savin Hill, 27 Carter St in Everett, 54 Pleasant St in Dorchester, 51 Cushing St in Cambridge — and describes a general contractor that builds commercial and residential buildings alongside architects, designers and engineers. House-scale work turns up in the permits too, just rarely: a $28,000 kitchen remodel in Newton Upper Falls, an $8,485 bathroom renovation in Allston. So the question to settle first is fit. This is a developer-scale builder that also lists kitchen and bath remodeling, not a remodeling shop that occasionally builds; ask directly whether a project your size gets their crew or their B team, and ask for homeowner references, since no customer has written about them publicly. Two other things to pin down on the call: the company shows a Malden address and a 617 number on Houzz while the permits carry a Reading address and an 857 number, and BuildZoom's note that Mucio M Aquino holds a construction supervisor licence and two others gives no numbers — get them and check them against the state's records before signing anything.