Avatar builds multifamily, mixed-use, and healthcare facilities across Greater Boston and Southern New Hampshire. Every project is delivered under a Guaranteed Maximum Price, with senior leadership engaged from pre-construction through completion. Projects from $5M to $50M+.
Commercial Design-Build Contractors in Boston, MA and Southern NH
A Commercial Design-Build Firm Built for High-Value Projects
Avatar Construction is a Boston-based commercial design-build firm with more than 25 years of experience delivering complex projects across Massachusetts and New England. We are not a generalist contractor competing on every project type. We focus on three sectors where our integrated delivery model creates the most measurable value: multifamily residential development, mixed-use commercial construction, and healthcare facility design-build.
Every project Avatar takes on is backed by a Guaranteed Maximum Price and managed by senior leadership from the first pre-construction conversation to the day keys are handed over. That is not a marketing claim. It is the structure of every engagement we take on, and it is why developers and operators in Greater Boston and Southern NH come back to Avatar project after project.
How Avatar Delivers
Guaranteed Maximum Price
Your project cost ceiling is locked before construction begins, built on real subcontractor pricing and a constructability-reviewed design. Not an estimate. Not a bid with contingency language that erodes through change orders. A firm commitment from day one.
Senior Management on Every Project
Avatar’s principals are directly involved from pre-construction through completion on every engagement. The people who set your project plan are the people managing your build. You will not be handed to a junior project manager after contract signing.
Primary Design-Build Accountability
Avatar holds one contract covering design coordination, pre-construction planning, and construction delivery. One accountable party for the full scope. No gap between design and construction. No finger-pointing when problems need to be resolved.
What We Build
Multi-Family Residential
Ground-up apartment buildings, urban infill multi-unit developments, and new construction residential communities across Greater Boston and Southern NH. Avatar manages multifamily projects from site feasibility and entitlement through construction completion, with GMP contracting from day one.
Mixed-Use Commercial
Retail-residential and commercial-residential developments across Greater Boston and Southern NH. Avatar’s integrated design-build process manages the dual occupancy design requirements, commercial tenant specifications, and entitlement complexity that define mixed-use projects in this market.
Healthcare Facilities
Community health centers, behavioral health facilities, dayhab programs, urgent care centers, and medical office buildings. Healthcare construction requires regulatory, clinical, and licensing expertise that most commercial contractors do not have. Avatar has worked with healthcare facilities and laboratories across Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Commercial Design-Build
Avatar’s design-build model integrates architecture, engineering, and construction under one contract. Design decisions are made with a builder in the room, budget targets are checked against real pricing throughout design development, and the GMP is built on a constructability-reviewed set of drawings rather than on estimates.
General Contracting
For owners and developers with completed design, Avatar provides full-service commercial general contracting under a GMP structure, with the same senior management involvement and pre-construction rigor that defines our design-build engagements.
Pre-Construction Services
The decisions that determine whether a project stays on budget are made before construction starts. Avatar’s pre-construction process covers site feasibility, full budget development using real subcontractor pricing, value engineering, regulatory strategy, and schedule development. It is where the GMP is built and where project risk is eliminated before it becomes expensive.
Why Commercial Developers and Operators Choose Avatar
One Firm, Full Accountability
As a primary design-builder, Avatar holds the contract for both design and construction. There is no split between an architect and a GC with conflicting incentives. One team, one contract, one outcome.
GMP On Every Project
Cost certainty is not a premium tier at Avatar. It is the standard contract structure. Your maximum is locked before construction begins and it holds.
Senior Leadership That Stays Involved
Avatar’s principals are not business development professionals who disappear after the contract is signed. They are experienced construction professionals who are active on your project throughout delivery. In the $5M to $50M project range, that access matters.
Over 25 Years Navigating Greater Boston
The subcontractor relationships, the permitting knowledge, and the sector-specific experience Avatar has built since 1999 are embedded in every pre-construction estimate, every design review, and every site meeting.
What Sets Us Apart?
Avatar Construction does not compete on pricing alone. We compete on value, and there is a meaningful difference. Our proven design-build process is built around quality, efficiency, and disciplined attention to detail at every stage of a project. By engaging with your organization early in the pre-construction phase, we create the clarity and alignment needed to keep your project on budget, on schedule, and free of the costly surprises that derail complex healthcare and institutional builds.
Serving Greater Boston and Southern NH
Avatar builds commercial projects across Massachusetts and New Hampshire:
Greater Boston and MetroWest MA: Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, Newton, Quincy, Waltham, Watertown, Medford, Everett, Malden, Lynn, Framingham, Natick, Shrewsbury, and surrounding communities.
Southern New Hampshire: Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Derry, Bedford, Londonderry, Salem, and the Merrimack Valley corridor.
Recent Projects
Avatar’s portfolio spans multifamily residential communities, mixed-use developments, healthcare facilities, hospitality projects, and commercial renovations across Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
What Our Clients Say...
Avatar Construction offers a wide range of commercial design/build services for clients in the Boston area and across New England. As a leading Boston General Contractor, we know how to get the job right. We also offer construction consulting, construction project management, pre-construction services, commercial remodeling and award winning historical restorations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Avatar focuses on three primary sectors: multifamily residential construction, mixed-use retail-residential development, and healthcare facility design-build including community health centers, behavioral health facilities, and dayhab programs. We also serve commercial office, institutional, warehouse, and industrial clients across Greater Boston and Southern NH. Our target project scale is $5 million to $50 million and above.
A GMP is a firm cost ceiling established before construction begins, built on a pre-construction budget developed from real subcontractor pricing and a constructability-reviewed design. Once set, your maximum cost is locked in. For developers and operators managing construction financing, capital budgets, or equity partnerships with hard limits, the GMP converts a contractor’s estimate into a contractual commitment.
Both, depending on the project stage and client need. Avatar operates primarily as a design-builder, managing design coordination and construction under a single contract. For clients who have completed design and need a general contractor to deliver the build, Avatar provides full-service general contracting under the same GMP structure and senior management model. Avatar does not operate as a subcontractor.
Three things distinguish Avatar from most commercial contractors in this market. First, GMP contracting is the standard on every project, not an option. Second, senior management is directly involved throughout every engagement, not just at the beginning and end. Third, Avatar operates as a primary design-builder with full accountability for design and construction under one contract. The combination of those three things is not common at Avatar’s project scale in the Greater Boston market.
Avatar focuses on commercial projects at the $5 million level and above, with most engagements running between $5 million and $50 million. Larger and smaller projects are evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
As early as possible. The decisions that have the most impact on project cost and schedule are made before construction starts. Avatar can provide site feasibility analysis, preliminary budget modeling, and entitlement strategy before you commit to a development program. Clients who engage Avatar at the site evaluation stage consistently see better outcomes on budget, schedule, and regulatory approval.
Ready to Start Your Project Conversation?
Whether you are evaluating a site for a multifamily development, planning a community health center expansion, or looking for a design-build partner for a mixed-use project in Greater Boston or Southern NH, the earlier we are engaged the better the outcome.
Call 617-714-5773 or schedule a project evaluation below.