Francisco Tavares Inc

Francisco Tavares Inc is a Cape Cod landscape outfit that works at the heavy end of the trade: landscape construction, site development and excavation out of East Falmouth, with stonework, patios, walkways, retaining walls, drainage, driveways and Title-5 septic installation alongside ordinary grounds maintenance. It is an old firm. The late Francisco Tavares started it in 1951, BBB records the business as incorporated in 1963 with a change of ownership in 2020, and it now runs about 90 employees across two listed locations plus a garden center. Its own site claims 75 years in business. The outside signals are mostly institutional rather than customer-written. BBB rates it A+ without accreditation, BuildZoom scores it 96 and shows a Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor licence issued in August 2025 and verified active in March 2026, and its Houzz page lists features in Landscape Architecture, Coastal Living, Cape Cod Home, Veranda, Town and Country and Boston Home. Google carries 4.4 stars from 7 ratings. The one open-web read comes from a trade peer rather than a homeowner: a fence contractor on r/CapeCod who works around the crews said they do a lot of nice work, and named Jonathan Searles as the owner — which the BBB and BuildZoom records corroborate. That is a good sign about workmanship, but it is one voice, and the customer-side record here is thin, so ask for recent references on a job like yours.