Canton, MA Torrential downpours couldn’t dampen the Curtis Construction Company’s 20th anniversary celebration, held at the Irish Cultural Center (ICC) on Thursday, June 28.
Close to one hundred family, friends, clients and business associates joined John Curtis and his team for food, drink, music and good company under a large tent while the rain came down outside. The cornhole game was put on the dance floor and everyone stayed nice and dry as hors d’oeuvres by Alden Park were passed and guests enjoyed the ICC’s Sophia and Roisin’s specialty drink, the Zova. Guests were treated to Gerry Beaudoin’s smooth jazz guitar as they mingled and met new people.
John was joined by his wife Tina, daughters Caroline and Gwen, and son Teddy. Of course, John’s brothers Alan, Paul and Dave were there to help their brother celebrate 20 years of providing clients with best in class construction management service.
Industry partners and current and past clients came out in the rain to help Curtis Construction celebrate; Vito Rubini and three of his team represented Glynn Electric; Bob Flack, developer of the 47 Bishop Allen Dr. project braved the traffic from Cambridge to join the celebration, also fighting the traffic from Cambridge was John Moran and Steven Leonard of Cambridge Savings Bank, just to name a few. The tent was packed with family, friends and business associates eating, drinking, meeting new people and of course, playing cornhole.
The party was John’s way to thank family, employees and clients for their continued support, which started in 1998 with Curtis Construction’s first big project, the HarborCOV Housing project in Chelsea, an 24-unit affordable housing project. Curtis will end their twentieth year finishing up the Archer Bonell project, a mixed-use development in Dudley Sq.; 47 Bishop Allen Dr. Apartments, part of the massive Mass+Main development project in Cambridge; Montello II in Brockton, Curtis’ fifth affordable housing project with Father Bill’s/Mainspring; completing the second phase of the historic Sandpaper Factory’s exterior envelope renovation; and starting the old Norwell Police station redevelopment project which will consist of 18-units of affordable housing.
John Curtis reminisced, “I was a young father with a young and growing family when I started Curtis Construction, I knew it was a risky move to go out on my own. Looking back, I doubt I could have seen where we are today; my youngest graduating high school, my oldest graduating college, Curtis Construction’s reputation as a go-to construction manager for developers. The HarborCOV project was definitely a learning experience that has grown into an expertise that our industry partners respect and have come to rely on. I look forward to seeing where the next 20 years brings us.”
Located in Stoughton, Curtis Construction provides general contracting, construction management and design-build services to private developers and non-profit organizations located throughout Massachusetts and Southern New England. The firm’s projects range from small tenant fit-outs to new ground-up construction to complex adaptive re-use, often with substantial complexities.