David A. Lowe

Sixty-two electrical permits, and the typical one is small — around $4,250. David A. Lowe works out of 2 East Concord Street in Boston's South End, and the permit file reads like one electrician's steady year: kitchens, bathrooms, service upgrades, the occasional full rewire. The addresses spread across the South End, Beacon Hill, Jamaica Plain, Belmont and Nahant. In March 2023 he pulled a permit at 10 Vernon Street in Nahant to relocate a 200-amp service and wire a complete first- and second-floor renovation. There is commercial work in the file too — a new-restaurant fit-out covering power, lighting, equipment, panels and feeders. Nine of those permits landed in the past three years, so this is a working business, not a dormant registration. What is absent is any published customer account: BuildZoom has collected no reviews for him. The licensing picture needs one question answered. BuildZoom says it verified Massachusetts electrician licence 16957 as active in December 2025, but it also lists a second Massachusetts entry whose last-known expiry was July 2016 and a City of Newton electrical contractor record it reports as at one point cancelled. None of that is a state verification, so ask to see the current licence and check it yourself. Judge this one on the permit trail and a conversation rather than on reputation — there is a real body of Boston electrical work behind the name, but nobody has written about it publicly.