Jim Gallagher Construction

Jim Gallagher Construction is a two-person shop at 352 Howe Street in Methuen, and the clearest picture of its work comes from the permits it pulls: BuildZoom counts 198 permitted projects, 36 of them in the last three years — 16 in 2023, 19 in 2024 and one in 2025 — with a typical permit size around $10,000. Those jobs are mostly not houses. The permits BuildZoom sampled are commercial low-voltage and access-control installations in Boston — Dana-Farber, Wentworth, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Harvard, 1 Federal Street. The one residential permit in that sample is a 2025 kitchen renovation and covered porch in Merrimac, listed at $101,000, and that permit is shown as expired. The two directories describe the business differently. BuildZoom files it under electricians in Methuen, where the permit mix is given as 29 electrical and nine home-addition projects; the Better Business Bureau lists it as a siding contractor owned by Jim Gallagher and in business 35 years. BuildZoom also lists two licence numbers for the firm: a Massachusetts construction supervisor licence, CS-059233, and a home improvement contractor registration, #111863. This is a commercial electrical and access-control outfit first, and the Boston institutional work is what fills its permit list. A facilities manager or a general contractor who needs that scope has something concrete to go on. A homeowner should open the call by asking whether residential jobs are ones they take on, and which of those licences and registrations would cover the work.