General contractor · North Shore, MA
Towns we build in
We are a design-build general contractor based in Peabody, working across the North Shore. Every town here has its own guide: the houses you find there, what the building department and conservation commission will ask for, the energy code, and the work we have done nearby.
- Town guides
- 26
- Towns with our projects
- 16
- Projects listed by town
- 41
Town index
Every town, by stretch of the shore
Coastal towns bring flood maps and wetlands. Horse country mostly means septic. Several of the old harbor towns have local historic districts. Pick a town for what applies there. Job list as of September 2026.
7 towns
The coast
Nahant to Manchester-by-the-Sea. Ledge, salt air, flood maps and conservation commissions.
- NahantNahant is about 1.2 square miles of rock with the Atlantic on three sides, and every truck, dumpster and crane reaches it over one causeway road.Town guide7.1 mi
- SwampscottMore than half of Swampscott's houses were built before 1940, so the house is more likely to be late-Victorian or early twentieth century than postwar.1 project4.0 mi
- MarbleheadMarblehead takes its name from its ledge, and much of what makes building here different follows from it: rock under the footings, hilly lots, and houses that sit close to the harbor.1 project3.7 mi
- SalemIn Salem, any building 50 years or older gets a Historical Commission look before it can be demolished, and the city counts removing half the exterior walls or half the roof structure as demolition.4 projects1.9 mi
- BeverlyBeverly's houses are older than most people expect for a city its size: the master plan puts about 40 percent before World War II and about 80 percent before 1980.5 projects4.4 mi
- Beverly Farms & Prides CrossingBeverly Farms and Prides Crossing are the eastern end of the City of Beverly, strung along Hale Street out to the Manchester line.1 project6.1 mi
- Manchester-by-the-SeaIn Manchester's harbor village, most exterior work goes through the Historic District Commission.1 project9.6 mi
5 towns
Cape Ann and the Great Marsh
Granite, working harbors and salt marsh, from Rockport around to Rowley.
- GloucesterThe Annisquam River splits Gloucester, and so do the building questions.2 projects11.9 mi
- RockportRockport writes its building envelope down in numbers: 30 feet, two and a half stories, a gable dormer no longer than 60 percent of the ridge.Town guide17.5 mi
- EssexEssex measures an addition in gallons per day. Lots in the town's sewer service area each carry a fixed flow allocation, and everything else is on Title 5 septic, so a new bedroom has to fit one or the other.1 project9.4 mi
- IpswichIpswich has no c.40C local historic district, yet its count of First Period houses is widely reported as the highest in the country, and a home-rule preservation district of its own reviews large additions in the old center.Town guide11.1 mi
- RowleyRowley has no town sewer. Every house is on septic, all of the water comes from public or private wells, and the Board of Health's own regulations cite shallow soil over fractured ledge.1 project13.1 mi
4 towns
Horse country
Bigger lots, barns and carriage houses, and mostly private Title 5 septic.
- HamiltonHamilton zones its outer district at 80,000 sq ft and its estates run far larger, yet the buildable part of a lot is often smaller than it looks.2 projects7.7 mi
- WenhamThree local rules come up again and again in Wenham: a historic district that runs the whole length of Main Street, private septic, and a wetlands bylaw stricter than the state's.3 projects5.4 mi
- TopsfieldA National Register study of Topsfield's farms credits the town with more reliably dated pre-1730 houses than most of eastern Massachusetts, and there are plenty of newer houses on two-acre lots around them.Town guide8.0 mi
- BoxfordBoxford never built town water or sewer, and it has required two acres for a new house lot since 1955.Town guide10.8 mi
4 towns
Newburyport and the upper shore
Newburyport's Federal-era streets on the Merrimack, and the farm towns around them.
- NewburyportIn Newburyport, changing the roofline or the footprint of an old house can count as demolition.Town guide19.8 mi
- NewburyNewbury asks a different first question depending on where the house sits.Town guide17.4 mi
- West NewburyLots in West Newbury run large: across most of the south of town the zoning minimum is 80,000 sq ft.Town guide18.5 mi
- GeorgetownGeorgetown was Rowley's West Parish before it was a town, and most of its houses are newer than 1950.Town guide13.7 mi
6 towns
Peabody and inland
Our home base and the towns around it, out to the Andovers.
- PeabodyPeabody is where Penney Construction is based, and more of our jobs are here than in any other town: second stories, rear additions, kitchens, baths and decks.11 projectsBase
- DanversIn Danvers, a new dormer on a house built in 1925 or earlier can count as demolition, so the year the house was built is the first thing we look up.5 projects3.6 mi
- LynnfieldLynnfield has almost no public sewer, a great deal of regulated wetland and a bylaw that protects the trees along lot lines.1 project6.3 mi
- MiddletonMiddleton shares a border with Peabody, where we are based. We finished a large bathroom conversion in town, adding a second full bath along with built-ins and refinished floors.1 project7.2 mi
- North AndoverNorth Andover is really two towns: compact 17th- to 19th-century neighborhoods on the north side, and Out Country to the south, filled in from the 1960s on, where many houses are still on septic.1 project11.6 mi
- AndoverAndover grew along the Shawsheen River as a handful of separate centers, and more than a third of its houses were built before 1960.Town guide14.3 mi
Recent projects from our job list, as of September 2026Distances: straight line to Peabody, approximate
Building somewhere on the North Shore?
Tell us the town and what you want the house to do. We will walk it with you and check what the town will require before anything is drawn.