Hurst Landscape and Site Services, Inc.

Hurst Landscape & Site Services is a Mattapan, Boston landscape and sitework contractor owned by David Hurst, a longtime Mattapan resident who, as Historic Boston told it in 2017, started out as a sheet metal mechanic before a neighbour asked him to cut her lawn. The company works for homeowners, urban garden associations, non-profits, general contractors and municipal and state clients, and describes itself as family-owned. The recent customer record is small but consistent and specific. Four homeowners writing in March and April 2026 all describe hardscape work - a permeable paver patio with a stone wall and resurfaced concrete stairs, a two-tiered retaining wall with planting, stairs and irrigation, a $29,800 paver driveway, a $5,000 patio and walkway - and the same themes recur: crews with enough manpower to keep moving, care taken to match existing stonework, tidy sites and consideration for neighbours, work starting on the agreed date, and a final bill matching the estimate. One reviewer noted the company was not the cheapest bid and judged the quality worth it; another singled out follow-up visits for quality checks. Its institutional side is the part most landscapers cannot show. Historic Boston enlisted the firm in 2017 to turn the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm in Mattapan into an urban farm - a project that later collected a Boston Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award - and a 2019 piece lists the Dillaway-Thomas House and the Eustis Street Fire House among its historic landscape work. Its claimed Procore profile shows 45 projects, 14 of them active. What to check before hiring: its published tenure varies by source (over 25 years on its own site, over 20 on its directory profile), it holds no Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration that the state registry returns under this name, and the written reviews are all from one syndicated directory listing and all from 2026 - so ask for older references and for the licence or insurance certificates covering your specific scope.