Kaplan Construction

Fifty years is the number that anchors everything else about Kaplan Construction: founded by Ken and Cathy Kaplan in 1976, the Brookline firm says it's still family-run, with daughter Jane Kaplan Peck now serving as Chief Operating Officer. It isn't chasing kitchen-and-bath jobs — the company describes its own work as preconstruction, general contracting, construction management, and design-build for commercial, healthcare, multi-family, worship, and institutional clients. The credentials read well for that kind of client. Kaplan is a certified Women Business Enterprise and says it has earned the Associated Builders and Contractors' Accredited Quality Contractor distinction 28 times — a credential built on repeat, demonstrated performance rather than a one-time badge. Its BBB file carries an A+ grade with no complaints listed against it. On Google, the handful of ratings run 5 stars, though the count is thin — just a few reviews, echoed across several directories rather than freshly generated on each one. One flag worth raising: an older, uncorroborated review on a business-listing site accused Kaplan of doing unpermitted weekend construction, with a site manager who denied it, and said the city eventually fined the company over it. It's a single account from years back, with nothing recent that repeats it — but it's worth asking about directly if permitting matters to your project. Separately, at least one directory lists Kaplan as a senior home-modification specialist, which doesn't match how the company describes itself or how its own clients talk about it — worth a gut check if that's why you found them. Kaplan reads as a long-tenured institutional and commercial builder marking its 50th year in 2026, not a shop built around residential remodels. If your project looks like theirs — a school, a house of worship, a health-care build-out — the credentials support a serious look; for a typical home renovation, it's worth confirming residential work is something they still take on.