One Way Development

One Way Development is a Boston-based general, mechanical and electrical contractor working across government, commercial and residential jobs in Greater Boston — the kind of company that shows up on rewiring jobs for multi-unit apartment buildings and city building conversions as often as it does on a homeowner's kitchen or bath. Founded by Abraham Gonzalez, the company describes itself as minority-owned and holds an active Massachusetts MBE/DBE certification along with an SBA 8(a) federal contracting designation. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is verified active, and BuildZoom separately verifies an active Massachusetts electrician license under the company's name. That electrical work shows up in its permit history: new-construction wiring and low-voltage work for a 40-unit Roxbury building, a full rewire of an 18-unit building after water damage, and a $3.29 million change-of-occupancy conversion in Boston, alongside smaller residential jobs like a Brookline kitchen and bath rebuild. BuildZoom logs 120 permitted projects total and scores the company above 92% of Massachusetts contractors on that basis. Its BBB profile carries an A+ rating. A 2024 Google review describes a bathroom renovation for the reviewer's mother that was supposed to take a couple of weeks but stalled after demolition day — no activity or updates for over two months, and the company allegedly dismissive when contacted. A BBB review opens with the identical line, suggesting the same customer wrote to a second platform, and repeats the complaint about poor communication. Separately, a subcontractor's BBB review alleges an invoice the company marked paid internally was never actually paid out. A 2022 Google reviewer, by contrast, called the owner and staff knowledgeable and pointed to an in-house OSHA safety training program. Before booking a residential job like a kitchen or bath remodel — as opposed to the commercial and electrical work its permit history is dominated by — it's worth getting a firm project timeline in writing and checking in on progress early, given the stalled-renovation account above. The company's own materials disagree about how long it's been operating: its site and BBB file both point to a 2004 founding, while BuildZoom's summary claims it's been active since 1994.