Lee Kennedy Company

Lee Kennedy Company is a construction manager and general contractor at 122 Quincy Shore Drive in Quincy, Massachusetts. Lee Kennedy founded it in 1978 and remains chairman, and the firm is still run by the Kennedy family. Its markets are academic buildings, commercial development, healthcare and life sciences, historic restoration, interiors, and retail and restaurant fit-outs, delivered through construction management, design-build and preconstruction services. The site doesn’t publish a headcount. On the Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment in South Boston, Lee Kennedy is the general contractor in joint venture with Atlanta’s H.J. Russell & Company, according to developer WinnCompanies. Neither firm is identified as the lead partner in the announcement.

Lee Kennedy Sr. started the company in 1978 with what the firm describes as a customer-centric approach that was revolutionary in construction at the time, and with an interest in preserving and adapting Boston’s historic architecture. Eugene Kennedy is listed as principal owner. The single office is at 122 Quincy Shore Drive in Quincy, Massachusetts, reachable at 617 825 6930, and the firm positions itself among the premier construction management firms on the East Coast.

Seven markets are named: academic, commercial development, interiors and special projects, design-build, healthcare and life sciences, historic restoration, and retail and restaurants. The pairing of academic work with historic restoration is characteristic of Boston — most college buildings in the city are old, and a contractor who can handle both at once is working on the same project rather than two.

Service lines are listed as project planning and preconstruction, construction management, virtual design and construction, design-build, and safety, with the company stating it will make safety part of everything it does. Notably absent from the list is traditional general contracting, so if a lump-sum hard-bid arrangement is what you need, confirm it rather than assume.

Two project details on the firm’s site say more about capability than the market list does. At Wheelock College it gut-rehabbed and infilled 32,000 square feet in six months, adding 132 beds — a summer-window dormitory schedule, where the handover date is fixed by the academic calendar and cannot move. At Berklee College of Music the work involved deep-hole foundation bracing, which is the hard part of building on a tight urban site next to existing structures.

Current work shows the same profile: the Mary Ellen McCormack housing redevelopment Phase 1 Building A, Lawrence Catholic Academy, and the Holocaust Museum Boston.

Award recognition includes an AGC Grand Honor Award. Beyond that, the site publishes no headcount, no certifications and no formal service-area boundary, and the firm’s community involvement is described through individual board service rather than corporate membership. For an owner, the questions to ask are current bonding capacity, the superintendent assigned, and references from a project on a comparable fixed-calendar schedule.