Sublime Construction Corporation

Twelve reviews, 4.9 stars, and not one of them written in the last decade — that gap is the first thing to understand about Sublime Construction Corporation. The company works out of 43 Howard St in Lynn under president Josue Torres, with five employees on file at the BBB, which lists it as started and incorporated in January 2011. Concrete is the through-line: retaining walls, flatwork, footings and foundations sit at the top of the services it advertises, and its own Houzz page describes it as a construction-management and landscaping contractor covering Essex County. The customers who wrote about it liked the concrete and yard work specifically. In a July 2015 review, a homeowner described the company arriving in 95-degree heat, finding two front steps too far gone to patch and replacing them outright, then fixing cracks in the cellar walls while on site. Another 2015 reviewer — a general contractor himself — listed brick repair, concrete, stairs, retaining walls and foundation repair and said he'd hire them again. Others from 2015 described sod installs and a spring clean-up. The owner comes up by name again and again in those accounts, showing up for estimates himself and following up on the work. What's changed since is the kind of job. Building permits filed between 2019 and 2024 across Beverly, Methuen, Danvers, Malden, Newbury, Rowley and Peabody run to decks, framing a single-family house, roofing, siding and windows, and bathroom remodeling — a broader general-contracting mix than the concrete-and-lawn work its customer reviews actually describe. Two of those permits show as expired and one as canceled. A few things to pin down before booking. Angi and HomeAdvisor both display a "BBB ACCREDITED BUSINESS A+" badge, but the BBB's own profile says plainly that this business is not accredited — the A+ rating and accreditation are separate things, and only the rating is real here. Both pages also print a star breakdown reading 100% five-star when two of the twelve reviews are 4.5. And while BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration and the Angi profile self-reports a construction supervisor number, neither was confirmed against the state registry, so look both up yourself with the Office of Consumer Affairs before signing anything. If your job is concrete — a retaining wall, footings, a foundation, steps — this is a shop whose customers wrote specifically and warmly about that work, and the permit history shows it has kept building since. Just go in knowing the written praise is a decade old: ask for references from jobs finished in the last year or two, in the same trade as yours.