CM&B

CM&B has stayed in the same family's hands since 1992, when Kevin Puopolo founded it as a construction management firm; his son Tim Puopolo was recently named president, marking the second generation running the company. Based in Beverly, with a second office in New York, it describes its own work as pre-construction, construction management, and program management for commercial clients — automotive, grocery, hospitality, retail, and industrial projects. The public reviews that exist are thin but uniformly positive: a small handful of ratings on Google and a single review on the directory site Kukun, both landing at 5 stars with nothing negative turning up anywhere else. That's a good sign, but it's a small sample to lean on for a company that says it's been operating for over three decades. Every third-party mention of CM&B — from industry news to business directories — describes commercial and institutional work, not private homes: retail buildouts, industrial facilities, hospitality projects. Anyone finding them through a home-contractor search should ask directly whether residential jobs are even something they take on, since nothing in its public presence points to house-scale work. CM&B reads as an established, family-run outfit with a long history and a clean if sparse reputation — a reasonable call for a commercial buildout, less clearly a fit for a home renovation. Confirm upfront that they handle residential-scale projects before going further.