Caruso & McGovern Construction, Inc.

Caruso & McGovern is a Georgetown outfit that spends most of its time below grade — underground utilities, site development and the general contracting that goes with them, for commercial, retail and residential clients. The company says on its own site that it has been doing this work since 1983, more than four decades. Its BBB page tells a shorter story: 27 years, with the business started in 1999. That page carries an A+ grade, though the company is not BBB accredited and no reviews or complaints are published there. The written customer history is thin — four Google reviews stretching back to 2021, averaging 4.4 across eight ratings. The specifics that exist are small and consistent: in a December 2021 review, a homeowner described a small excavation job and called the operator knowledgeable and professional, and another that same month said the crew worked in their yard and was efficient and respectful. Bigger work shows up elsewhere — Itemlive reported in October 2025 that the company is the general contractor on the Hennessey House redevelopment in downtown Lynn, with Deer Hill Architects designing. The one recent piece of feedback is a July 2026 two-star Google review, and it is worth reading before you weigh it: it is a complaint about a driver cutting someone off, not about any work performed. The thing to settle before signing anything is the registration. Massachusetts lists home improvement contractor registration 165148 in this company's name as expired. For general contracting and remodeling work on a home, that is not a technicality — ask them directly where the registration stands and get the current number in writing. This is a reasonable call for site work, excavation and utility-side general contracting, where the few detailed accounts and the Lynn project point. For a residential remodel, the short answer is: confirm the registration status first, then ask for recent homeowner references, because the public trail of residential jobs here is short.