Jim Gallagher Construction

Jim Gallagher Construction is a two-person firm at 352 Howe St in Methuen, Massachusetts, owned by Jim Gallagher. The Better Business Bureau records the business as started on 1 January 1991 — 35 years — with its BBB file opened in December 2017. What the business actually does depends on which source you read, and the permit record is the most concrete answer. BuildZoom shows 198 permitted projects, 36 of them in the last three years, with the permit mix stated as 29 electrical and 9 home-addition jobs at a typical permit size around $10,000. The sampled permits are overwhelmingly commercial low-voltage and access-control work in Boston — Dana-Farber, Wentworth, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Harvard, 1 Federal St — alongside a single 2025 residential permit in Merrimac for a kitchen renovation and covered porch at $101,000, which the record shows as expired. The BBB, by contrast, files the business under siding contractors. That mix matters for a homeowner. The permit history reads as a commercial electrical contractor that takes occasional residential work, not a residential remodeler, and permit volume dropped sharply in the last year — 16 permits in 2023 and 19 in 2024, but only one in 2025. On credentials, BuildZoom lists Massachusetts Construction Supervisor licence CS-059233 as active, verified July 2026, and Home Improvement Contractor registration 111863 as active, verified June 2026. It also carries a City of Newton Electrical Contractor licence, #111858, which it marks 'License Not Verified' and says expired in December 2022. These are the directory's statements, not registry checks — worth confirming against the state and city yourself, particularly the electrical credential if electrical work is what you are hiring for. There is no customer commentary anywhere in the record. The BBB profile is explicitly 'Not Rated' because, in its words, it does not have sufficient information to issue a rating, and it publishes no reviews and no complaint count; BuildZoom has received no reviews either. For a homeowner, that means the only real evidence of how this firm works is the permit trail. If you are considering them, ask which of the recent Boston jobs you can reference, get the licence numbers confirmed directly with the state, and be clear about whether your job is residential work they take regularly or an exception.