Building & Remodeling Corp. of America, Inc.

Tom Frangos built his Beverly company around one of the trickier jobs in residential construction: putting a second floor on a house that is already standing. He trademarked the pitch — 'The 2nd Story & Addition Specialist™' — and says he brings more than 30 years of building to it, along with a BS in engineering, an MBA from Wharton, and a stretch as a senior project manager at Toll Brothers. Building & Remodeling Corp. of America runs out of 100 Cummings Center in Beverly and names roughly 30 North Shore towns in its service area, with Marblehead, Swampscott, Nahant, Salem, Lynn and Beverly among them. Its Houzz portfolio holds 17 projects: an 1886 farmhouse restoration in Boxford, several Beverly houses, a second story in Newton and another in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Additions and whole-house remodeling sit alongside kitchens, baths, basements, in-law suites, accessory dwelling units and house plans. The range it quotes is wide — typical jobs from $15,000 to $1,000,000 and up — so where your project lands in that spread is worth settling in the first conversation. Houzz lists one Massachusetts licence for the company, construction supervisor CS#043786. For a homeowner weighing a second story, an addition or an in-law suite on the North Shore, this is a company that has organized itself around exactly that work. Before you sign, look up CS#043786 on the state's licence register, confirm insurance for the scope you have in mind, and ask to walk a finished addition close to the size of your own.