Cityside Construction LLC

Cityside Construction is a Boston general contractor homeowners bring in for whole renovations and ground-up work — the kind of job where a top-floor apartment gets reconfigured, permits and all, not a quick patch. The firm says founder Nicholas Matt started it after a decade in Boston construction and runs projects alongside project manager Garrett Peters, working across Boston and nearby towns like Cambridge, Newton, and Brookline. Its Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor license is active. The reviews are recent and they rhyme. One homeowner this spring had Cityside convert a two-bedroom into a three-bedroom and redo two bathrooms, and left with the two notes that keep resurfacing: finished on budget, and finished ahead of schedule, with a progress report at the end of each day. Another, after a new bathroom, pointed out that no one tried to upsell them. A repeat client put it plainest — Cityside is now their go-to. The catch is how young the reputation is. A contractor-indexing directory flags Cityside as a newer entrant whose small number of public reviews makes its perfect 5.0 average less statistically reliable — a fair caution. Nearly all the praise sits on Google, and the count is still in the teens, so there isn't yet the deep, cross-site history an established remodeler would show. For a homeowner planning a gut renovation or an addition in the Boston area, Cityside is a credible, licensed, communicative choice whose recent clients are uniformly happy — just go in knowing you're hiring a young firm rather than a decades-old name. Ask for references on a project the size of yours, and confirm the specific licenses that apply to your job before you sign.