Halco Showroom

Halco has been selling cabinets on Broadway in Malden since 1946 — eighty years, now run by Tim Procopio — and the pitch today is the whole job rather than the boxes: design, cabinetry, and a project manager to run the trades. The most detailed account of what that looks like came in February 2025, from a couple who met the crew at a Wilmington home show. They wrote that Halco took their non-traditional kitchen ideas seriously, that the planning and contract stage came with explanations and suggestions rather than pressure, that the subcontractors were punctual and cleaned the site every day, and that the job moved faster than expected despite roadblocks — tracked through the Buildertrend app so they could see where things stood. In August 2023 another reviewer pointed at Tyler, the person running their job, and called him honest and easy to talk to. Scale-wise, this is a small shop with a long reach: five employees per the BBB, an A+ grade with nothing filed against it, thirty project photo sets on Houzz spanning Ipswich, Winthrop, Beverly, Malden and a Peabody deck, and thirteen permitted projects in BuildZoom's records. Houzz puts typical jobs between $40,000 and $200,000. Two things worth checking. The written record is only two reviews deep, so the consistent picture they paint rests on a thin base — ask for two or three recent clients you can call. And on credentials, BuildZoom lists both a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration (#164838) and an electrical business licence (#9170) as active; neither has been checked against the state registry here, so get the numbers from Halco and verify them yourself. If you want a kitchen designed and built by the same outfit, with cabinetry chosen in a showroom rather than a catalogue, this is that kind of business — long-established, small enough that you will deal with the people doing the work.