James G. Grant Co., Inc.

On Google, James G. Grant carries a 4.1★ average across 100 ratings, but the written reviews split hard along two lines — happy repeat scrap customers on one side, and frustrated construction-debris drop-offs on the other. The company runs a seven-acre transfer station and scrap yard in the Readville section of Hyde Park, and says it's family-owned across four generations, serving the Boston area with demolition work for over 60 years, alongside roll-off dumpster rentals and scrap metal recycling. The scrap side draws loyal repeat business: a self-described electrician wrote in July 2026 that he's been bringing scrap here for about four years and has always been treated fairly, naming an employee, Henry, by name and calling it the best place in the state for it. Others describe a fast, honest, in-and-out visit, and a 2022 Reddit thread pointed a Norwood-area poster here for construction material disposal. The construction-debris side carries the recurring friction. Reviewers going back to at least 2021 describe the per-load minimum climbing — several put it at $225 a ton by the early 2020s, up from roughly $135 a ton and a half-ton minimum in years prior — steep enough that one reviewer said it had priced out small contractors, even while another, writing in 2022, said they didn't fault the yard for passing along rising costs. Separately, a cluster of one-star reviews spanning 2022 through late 2025 describe run-ins with a machine operator or front-desk staff called arrogant, rude, or unhelpful — not a single incident, but a pattern recurring across different years and reviewers. One reviewer also described a dumpster-delivery driver damaging a retaining wall and later a driveway, with the company declining responsibility for the driveway damage by pointing to its prior condition. For scrap drop-off, this reads like a dependable, long-running option people return to for years. For construction debris, go in knowing the minimum runs steep, and if a roll-off delivery is involved, it's worth asking upfront who's on the hook for any damage.