LJV DEVELOPMENT

Procore counts 419 projects for LJV Development since June 2020. Almost everything written about the firm points the same direction: federal buildings, institutional space, commercial renovation — not the back-bedroom addition most homeowners are shopping for. Liseth Velez started the company in 2018, according to a 2022 alumni profile from Northern Essex Community College, and built it around government and corporate work. Inc. wrote in 2025 that the firm renovates work and living spaces, including government and corporate facilities and private development. Velez is an immigrant and a U.S. Air National Guard veteran, per a WBENC profile published in early 2025, and Boston Patch reported in May 2023 that the SBA had named her Massachusetts' Veteran Small Business Owner of the Year. An ICIC company profile describes the leadership as BIPOC-, woman- and veteran-owned, and Procore's listing carries 8(a), MBE, SDVOSB and small-business classifications — the directory's entries, not registry checks we ran. The homeowner side is thin. One customer review exists, from September 2021, and it is brief: a knowledgeable team, well organized, good leadership. Google shows a 5-star average across three ratings. Its BBB page is an A+, with no complaints and no government actions listed, though the company is not BBB accredited. The rest of what has been published about LJV is coverage of growth and awards rather than anyone describing how their job went. The two directories disagree on basic shape. BBB lists one employee at a Revere Beach Parkway address in Everett; the Procore profile claims 10 to 50 employees at 50 Milk Street in Boston, with average contracts between $1 million and $10 million. That gap is worth settling on a first call. For a facilities manager, an institution, or a public agency that needs a construction manager comfortable with federal compliance, this is a firm shaped for that work. A homeowner planning a residential remodel should ask directly whether LJV takes projects at that scale and request references from jobs like theirs — the work described publicly runs commercial, institutional and federal.