D & R General Contracting Inc

D & R General Contracting, doing business locally as D&R Paving, is a Melrose asphalt outfit that's been laying and resurfacing roads since 1978. The company says owner Bob Rotondi grew up in the trade — his grandfather ran G. Rotondi & Sons back in 1968 — and today the crew handles everything from state highway resurfacing to a parking lot. The written record is thin but pointed: in 2023 a Salisbury resident thanked the crew by name after their street on Central Ave got repaved on schedule, calling out the coordination between paving teams. A year earlier, someone managing the lot at Melrose Towers said the paving job came out clean. Those two accounts, plus the company's own claim that MassDOT has prequalified it for highway construction and surfacing work up to $25 million, point to a crew that works both small commercial lots and larger municipal roadwork. Not every account is glowing. A 2024 Google review called the work "sloppy" and "shoddy" without describing a specific job, and another from the same year complained about a company truck tailgating on Route 24 — a driving complaint, not a comment on paving quality. Google's own page shows 20 ratings averaging 3.6 stars, wider than the five written reviews behind this read, so weigh the mixed reviews against that broader number. D&R fits homeowners and property managers who need asphalt work done at scale — driveways, lots, or municipal streets — from a crew that has handled sizable state contracts. Given the split reviews, it's worth asking for references from a recent job before signing anything.