Top 20 Commercial General Contractors in NYC (2026 Mid-Market List)

New York is about to have its biggest construction year on record. The New York Building Congress projects $79.8 billion in spending in 2026, up roughly $10 billion from 2025, and nonresidential work alone jumps $6.7 billion to $29.1 billion. Three licensed casinos account for $17.6 billion of that, JFK’s $19 billion redevelopment is still in full swing, and Penn Station’s $7 billion overhaul has to break ground before the end of 2027. Every one of those jobs is being chased by the same two dozen billion-dollar general contractors. If you are a tenant, landlord, developer or co-op board with a $500,000 to $25 million project, you are not on their radar.

This list is built for that project. Below are 20 commercial general contractors and construction managers based in the five boroughs, all roughly under $100 million in annual revenue, grouped by the kind of work they actually do best: office and lab fit-outs, retail and restaurant build-outs, outer-borough multifamily, institutional and cultural buildings, and the facade and Local Law 11 work that every building over six stories eventually needs. For each firm you get what they build, how big they really are, and who they fit. At the end you get current NYC cost per square foot, DOB permit timelines, and the FISP Cycle 10 deadlines, so you can pressure-test a budget and schedule before you make a single call.

The List at a Glance

#	Company	Revenue (est.)	Founded	Best Fit
1	Michilli, Inc.	$50M to $90M	1996	Luxury retail flagships on Madison and Fifth
2	Tri-Star Construction Corp.	$30M to $70M	1989	Landlord pre-builts, amenity floors, lobbies
3	Vanguard Construction & Development Co.	$70M to $100M	1986	Chef-driven restaurants and hospitality
4	Blueberry Builders	$10M to $25M	c. 2007	Independent restaurants and DTC brand stores under $5M
5	Galaxy General Contracting Corp.	$40M to $90M	1981	HPD/HDC-financed affordable housing, Bronx and Brooklyn
6	Brisa Builders	$30M to $70M	2016 (dev. arm)	Faith-based and NYCHA PACT development (CM)
7	The Bluestone Organization	$30M to $70M	1927	Passive House multifamily, Queens (developer-builder)
8	KSK Construction Group	$25M to $60M	c. 2005	Boutique condos in Williamsburg and Chelsea
9	Talisen Construction Corp	$25M to $50M	2009	Lab, healthcare and corporate fit-outs in occupied buildings
10	Icon Interiors, Inc.	$60M to $100M	1997	Class A corporate interiors, Midtown and Flatiron
11	Henegan Construction Co., Inc.	$40M to $90M	1959	Trading floors and mission-critical MEP
12	Ambassador Construction Company	$50M to $90M	1960	Law firm and corporate interiors
13	L&K Partners, Inc.	$80M to $130M	1997	50,000 to 250,000 SF headquarters fit-outs
14	Alexander Wolf & Son	$50M to $90M	1905	Nonprofit, school and congregation projects
15	Yorke Construction Corporation	$30M to $70M	1923	Theaters and performance spaces
16	Westerman Construction Co., Inc.	$15M to $40M	Long-established	Museum and library renovations (CM)
17	Volmar Construction, Inc.	$30M to $80M	1988	Public agencies, DASNY, CUNY, GSA job orders
18	Dualcore Construction Management	$10M to $25M	2022	Occupied multifamily capital programs plus LL11
19	Xinos Construction Corp.	$20M to $40M	1990s	Portfolio-scale FISP facade programs
20	Able Restoration Inc.	$15M to $40M	c. 1990	Unsafe-condition facade response, in-house riggers

How We Built This List

Three criteria got a firm onto this list. First, headquartered in New York City, so your project is run by principals who live with the DOB, the unions, and the building managers every day, not from a regional office. Second, roughly under $100 million in annual revenue, which is the band where a $1 million to $20 million project is core business rather than filler between megaprojects. Third, building general contractors and construction managers only: no heavy civil firms, no specialty subcontractors, with one deliberate exception in the facade section where exterior restoration specialists are the right call.

Every firm was re-verified in October 2026 against its own website, NYC Department of Buildings permit records, and at least one trade publication: still operating, still independent (ownership changes are noted in the entries), still building commercial work in the city. Almost none of these companies publish revenue, so the figures are our estimates from headcount, declared permit values and project volume. Treat them as directional, not audited. Firms are grouped by the kind of work they do best and ordered within each group by how central that work is to their business rather than by size. This is the same method behind our Phoenix, Boston and Tampa lists.

The Top 20 Commercial General Contractors in New York City

Rather than rank 20 firms by size, we grouped them by the kind of work they do best. A Bronx affordable-housing builder and a SoHo flagship-store contractor are not competing for your project, so jump to the section that matches what you are building and compare the firms that actually belong on your bid list.

Retail, Restaurant and Hospitality Build-Outs

Flagship stores on Madison and Fifth, chef-driven restaurants, hotel repositioning, and the landlord lobby and pre-built work that keeps those blocks leased.

1. Michilli, Inc. (Flatiron)

• Industries They Serve: Luxury retail, high-end residential, corporate interiors, medical
• Project Sizes: $1M to $15M
• Years in Business: Since 1996
• Revenue per Year: Est. $50M to $90M
• Services They Provide: General contracting, construction management, design-build, global material sourcing
• Specialties: Luxury flagship build-outs, European finishes, Madison and Fifth Avenue retail

Michilli is the contractor behind a long run of luxury flagships on Madison, Fifth and in SoHo, and it keeps a West Coast office for brands that roll out on both coasts. The firm sources finishes directly from European fabricators, which matters when a brand standard calls for stone or millwork that no domestic vendor stocks. Recent DOB filings include a cellar-through-second-floor retail fit-out at 790 Madison Avenue and four floors at 530 Broadway, both permitted in 2026. If your project has a brand book and an opening date that was set in Milan or Paris, this is the shortlist.

Website: Michilli on The Blue Book

2. Tri-Star Construction Corp. (Lenox Hill)

• Industries They Serve: Corporate interiors, retail, amenity spaces, lobbies, pre-built suites
• Project Sizes: $500K to $8M
• Years in Business: Since 1989
• Revenue per Year: Est. $30M to $70M
• Services They Provide: Pre-construction budgeting and value engineering, long-lead purchasing, general contracting, closeout
• Specialties: Landlord work: pre-builts, amenity floors, lobby renovations

Tri-Star has spent 35 years doing the work Manhattan landlords need done quietly and on schedule: pre-built suites, amenity floors, lobby upgrades and the retail base of office buildings. Principal Jack Irushalmi has run the firm for three decades and still works jobs directly. A 2026 permit for RFR Realty at 17 State Street is typical of the client list, which skews toward institutional owners who award the same contractor floor after floor. For a landlord trying to lease space in a 13.7% availability market, a GC that can turn a pre-built in weeks is a leasing tool.

Website: tristarconstruction.com

3. Vanguard Construction & Development Co. (Garment District)

• Industries They Serve: Restaurants, hospitality, retail, office interiors, healthcare, institutional, landlord work
• Project Sizes: $500K to $15M
• Years in Business: Since 1986
• Revenue per Year: Est. $70M to $100M
• Services They Provide: Construction management during design, general contracting, design-build
• Specialties: Chef-driven restaurants and hospitality, lobby and facade repositioning

Vanguard is the biggest firm in this group and the one with the widest range, from two-Michelin-star restaurant César to healthcare and institutional interiors. Founder Michael Strauss has run it since 1986 and the firm now carries more than 100 people, which puts it right at the top of the mid-market band. Its superintendents hold their own DOB licenses, a detail that shortens the path through inspections on restaurant and hospitality jobs where FDNY and Health Department sign-offs stack up. A strong fit for a restaurant group opening its third or fourth concept and a landlord repositioning a lobby and retail base at the same time.

Website: vanguardcon.com

4. Blueberry Builders (Tribeca)

• Industries They Serve: Restaurants, bars, hotels, retail, office, wellness
• Project Sizes: $300K to $4M
• Years in Business: Nearly two decades (founded around 2007)
• Revenue per Year: Est. $10M to $25M
• Services They Provide: Construction management, general contracting, design-build, pre-construction, value engineering
• Specialties: Independent restaurants and first NYC flagships for DTC brands

Blueberry is the smallest firm on this list and the right one for a very specific client: an independent restaurant group or direct-to-consumer brand opening its first or second New York space. The portfolio reads like a downtown dining guide, with Palm Angels’ SoHo flagship, L’Artusi Supper Club, Saint Urban Bar and The Travel Agency among recent jobs. The firm publishes unusually candid guidance on NYC restaurant timelines and costs, which tells you how it runs a job: no surprises on the DOH and FDNY windows that stretch most restaurant schedules. If your budget is under $5 million and the design matters as much as the schedule, start here.

Website: blueberrybuilders.com

Ground-Up and Multifamily: Outer-Borough Mid-Rise, Affordable Housing and Boutique Condo

The builders behind Brooklyn, Queens and Bronx apartment buildings, from HPD-financed affordable housing to 20-unit Williamsburg condos. Two of them develop their own deals as well, which is noted where it applies.

5. Galaxy General Contracting Corp. (Kingsbridge, Bronx)

• Industries They Serve: Affordable and moderate-income multifamily, occupied rehabs, religious and community buildings
• Project Sizes: $5M to $40M
• Years in Business: Since 1981
• Revenue per Year: Est. $40M to $90M
• Services They Provide: General contracting, construction management, development, property management
• Specialties: HPD, HDC and CPC-financed housing, new construction and occupied gut rehab

Galaxy has built or rehabbed more than 250 buildings and 8,000 units across the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens over 45 years, most of it affordable housing financed through HPD, HDC and the Community Preservation Corporation. The firm works both as a third-party GC and as its own developer, so it understands how a lender’s draw schedule and a city agency’s closing checklist actually interact. Current work includes new buildings in Kingsbridge and Kingsbridge Heights and an $18.6 million CPC-financed project in Astoria. For a nonprofit or mission-driven developer, a builder that has sat on the owner’s side of the table is worth more than a lower first bid.

Website: galaxygc.com

6. Brisa Builders (Flatbush, Brooklyn)

• Industries They Serve: Affordable, senior and supportive housing, faith-based development, NYCHA PACT
• Project Sizes: $20M to $150M as construction manager
• Years in Business: Family firm for decades; development arm since 2016
• Revenue per Year: Est. $30M to $70M (CM fees plus development)
• Services They Provide: Construction management, development, owner’s representation, faith-based partnerships
• Specialties: Church-owned land and NYCHA PACT conversions, from RFP through lease-up

Brisa is a Black- and woman-led Brooklyn firm, run by Chair and CEO Ericka Keller, with roughly 2,200 units completed or under construction and another 2,500 in predevelopment. The signature work is Ebenezer Plaza, a 523-unit development on church-owned land in Brownsville, and the 684-unit Moore and Courtlandt NYCHA PACT conversion that closed $349 million in financing in 2025. Brisa is a construction manager and co-developer rather than a hard-bid GC, so it belongs on this list for churches, nonprofits and community organizations that own land and need a partner who can carry a project from city RFP to occupancy. Grace’s Place, an 82-unit senior building in Far Rockaway, opened in May 2025.

Website: brisabuilders.com

7. The Bluestone Organization (Jamaica, Queens)

• Industries They Serve: Rental housing, mixed-use, townhomes, brownfield redevelopment
• Project Sizes: $10M to $60M
• Years in Business: Since 1927
• Revenue per Year: Est. $30M to $70M
• Services They Provide: Development, building, property management
• Specialties: Passive House and high-performance multifamily in Queens and Brooklyn

Bluestone has been building in New York since 1927 and has more than 5,000 units to its name, nearly all in Queens, Brooklyn and Upper Manhattan. The firm is a developer-builder: it self-performs construction on its own projects rather than bidding third-party work, which is why it is here as a benchmark and a potential partner rather than a contractor you can simply hire. Where it leads the market is energy performance. The Andrew in Rego Park was billed as the greenest apartment building in New York State, and Passive House is now a standing practice area. For a developer planning a Local Law 97-proof building, Bluestone’s track record is the one to study, and a joint venture conversation is not unusual.

Website: www.bluestoneorg.com

8. KSK Construction Group (Manhattan, projects in Brooklyn and Chelsea)

• Industries They Serve: Luxury condominium ground-up and conversions, boutique Brooklyn condo
• Project Sizes: $10M to $40M
• Years in Business: Roughly 20 years (founded around 2005)
• Revenue per Year: Est. $25M to $60M
• Services They Provide: General contracting, construction management, development, trade procurement
• Specialties: 6 to 40-unit condos in Williamsburg, Greenpoint and West Chelsea

KSK has completed more than 50 projects in the city and has carried several of its own deals, which is the experience a boutique developer wants in a builder: someone who has personally lived with a construction loan. Current work includes 179 North 10th Street in Williamsburg, a conversion of a two-story commercial building into a four-story, 23-unit condo financed with a $25 million loan in 2025, and six duplex residences at 559 West 23rd Street in Chelsea. The firm has also built to Passive House standards. For a developer doing a 10 to 40-unit condo in North Brooklyn, KSK is the mid-market builder that has done exactly that block before.

Website: KSK Construction Group on Archinect

Interior Build-Outs: Office, Lab and Corporate Fit-Outs

Tenant improvements and corporate interiors, from a $500,000 suite in a Class B loft building to a 200,000 square foot headquarters. These are the firms brokers, landlords and tenants call when the lease commencement date is the whole job.

9. Talisen Construction Corp (Midtown Manhattan)

• Industries They Serve: Corporate interiors, healthcare and laboratory, education, media
• Project Sizes: $250K to $5M
• Years in Business: Since 2009
• Revenue per Year: Est. $25M to $50M
• Services They Provide: General contracting, construction management, pre-construction, subcontractor insurance and agreement management
• Specialties: Lab and healthcare fit-outs in occupied buildings, corporate interiors run on a project-management model

Talisen was founded in 2009 by Joseph Rigazio, who spent two decades in technology before building a construction firm around a project-management discipline most GCs this size do not have. The result shows up in the permit record: 22 NYC projects in 2024 and a steady run of lab and clinical work for Mount Sinai, NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell, including a $3.7 million lab and office fit-out at 619 West 54th Street and a $1.85 million dermatology practice renovation on East 98th Street in 2025. Corporate clients include A+E Networks and Taconic. For a tenant, landlord or health system that needs a $500,000 to $5 million fit-out delivered inside an occupied building without a chain of command between you and the person running the job, this is the first call.

Website: talisenconstructioncorp.com

10. Icon Interiors, Inc. (Chelsea)

• Industries They Serve: Law firms, financial services, TAMI tenants, building owners
• Project Sizes: $500K to $10M
• Years in Business: Since 1997
• Revenue per Year: Est. $60M to $100M
• Services They Provide: Construction management, general contracting, pre-construction through closeout, LEED support
• Specialties: Class A corporate interiors in Midtown and Flatiron; principals on every job

Icon has run more than 460 NYC permits since 1997 and keeps a pace of 50-plus projects a year, which makes it one of the busiest interiors contractors in the mid-market band. The client list is Midtown and Flatiron corporate: 2025 work includes a full-floor and penthouse build-out at 1165 Broadway, suite demising at the GM Building, and mechanical scopes at 510 and 555 Madison. Named clients and testimonials include Vanity Fair, Red Bull and Celonis. The firm’s pitch is no chain of command, with principals personally on every job, and the repeat-client record backs it up. A strong fit for a financial, legal or tech tenant doing a Class A fit-out who wants principal access without big-firm overhead.

Website: iconinteriors.com

11. Henegan Construction Co., Inc. (Chelsea)

• Industries They Serve: Corporate headquarters, trading floors, tech and telecom, mission-critical MEP, nonprofits, cultural
• Project Sizes: $1M to $15M
• Years in Business: Since 1959
• Revenue per Year: Est. $40M to $90M
• Services They Provide: Pre-construction, general contracting, construction management, BIM and virtual construction, emergency response
• Specialties: Trading floors and mission-critical interiors with live MEP

Henegan has been building Manhattan interiors since 1959, and President Maureen Henegan has led the woman-run firm for decades. Its specialty is the work that cannot go dark: trading floors, data rooms and headquarters re-stacks for financial firms, including a long run of alteration permits at 350 Park Avenue. The firm claims 80% client retention, which in corporate interiors means the same facilities directors keep calling for the next floor. If your project involves a live trading floor, a telecom room, or any MEP system that has to stay up through construction, Henegan has done it under tighter conditions than yours.

Website: Henegan Construction on the New York Building Congress member directory

12. Ambassador Construction Company (Midtown Manhattan)

• Industries They Serve: Law firms, corporate, technology
• Project Sizes: $500K to $10M
• Years in Business: Since 1960; third-generation family ownership
• Revenue per Year: Est. $50M to $90M
• Services They Provide: Pre-construction, construction management, general contracting, estimating, purchasing, post-construction
• Specialties: Law firm and corporate interiors, same team from start to finish

Ambassador is a 65-year-old family firm now run by third-generation President Cory Koven, and its reputation was built on law firms: Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan are on the client list alongside corporate and tech tenants like Fortinet. The operating model is the same project team from estimate through punch list, which is the practical difference between a family firm and an institution. For a law firm or professional-services tenant that values a long relationship over a lowest bid, Ambassador is one of the most durable names in Manhattan interiors.

Website: ambassadorconstruction.com

13. L&K Partners, Inc. (Manhattan)

• Industries They Serve: Corporate interiors for financial and tech, food and beverage, hospitality, life sciences, education, cultural
• Project Sizes: $2M to $40M
• Years in Business: Since 1997
• Revenue per Year: Est. $80M to $130M (at or just over the top of this band)
• Services They Provide: General contracting, construction management, pre-construction, repositioning
• Specialties: Large headquarters fit-outs delivered by a mid-size team

L&K is the one firm on this list that is probably at or slightly above $100 million, and it is here because it is the bridge between the mid-market and the giants. The portfolio includes a 225,000 square foot Willis Towers Watson headquarters at 200 Liberty Street, 75,000 square feet for Moody’s at One World Trade Center, 80,000 square feet for Intersection at 10 Hudson Yards, and the Romer Hell’s Kitchen hotel. The firm is partially women-owned. If your fit-out is 50,000 to 250,000 square feet and the billion-dollar GCs are treating it as a small job, L&K treats it as a flagship.

Website: lkpartnersinc.com

Institutional, Cultural, Education and Public Work

Theaters, museums, libraries, schools, synagogues and city agencies: the owners who select on references and process, and the firms that have passed those selection committees for decades.

14. Alexander Wolf & Son (Midtown East)

• Industries They Serve: Corporate, education, cultural and religious, nonprofit, lobbies, residential
• Project Sizes: $1M to $25M
• Years in Business: Since 1905; fourth-generation family ownership
• Revenue per Year: Est. $50M to $90M
• Services They Provide: General contracting, construction management, pre-construction
• Specialties: Nonprofit and institutional interiors with a low change-order reputation

Alexander Wolf & Son has been building in New York for 120 years, and the current flagship is the Legal Aid Society’s 200,000 square foot headquarters expansion at 40 Worth Street, a $22 million job for GFP Real Estate that was named a trade-press Project of the Month in 2023. GFP then awarded the firm follow-on work at 515 Madison, 230 Fifth and 10 Astor Place, which is the kind of repeat business that tells you how the first job went. Other credits include the Museum of Broadway, Bucherer and the Ansche Chesed synagogue, with JLL, Silverstein and Tishman Speyer among the owner’s reps and landlords it works under. For a nonprofit, school or congregation with a board that has to approve every change order, this is the firm to interview first.

Website: awolfandson.com

15. Yorke Construction Corporation (Chelsea)

• Industries They Serve: Performing arts and theaters, museums and cultural, education, foundations, high-end residential
• Project Sizes: $2M to $40M
• Years in Business: Since 1923
• Revenue per Year: Est. $30M to $70M
• Services They Provide: General contracting, construction management, theatrical infrastructure (catwalks, wire grids, acoustics)
• Specialties: Theaters and performance spaces inside landmarked buildings

Yorke has been building New York’s cultural spaces for a century and is the closest thing the city has to a specialist theater contractor. The last three years alone include the Delacorte Theater renovation in Central Park, the reopening of Pioneer Works in Red Hook after an eight-month accessibility overhaul, and the Lucille Lortel Theatre’s new headquarters with a studio theater. Earlier credits run from the Hudson and Helen Hayes Theatre restorations to St. Ann’s Warehouse and the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center. Rigging, wire grids, acoustic isolation and Landmarks approvals are standard practice here rather than a learning curve, which is exactly what an arts board paying for a capital campaign needs.

Website: yorkeconstruction.com

16. Westerman Construction Co., Inc. (Chelsea)

• Industries They Serve: Libraries, museums, theaters, galleries, cultural and public institutions
• Project Sizes: $2M to $30M construction value
• Years in Business: Long-established; two decades of complex institutional work under the current team
• Revenue per Year: Est. $15M to $40M (construction management model)
• Services They Provide: Construction management, budgeting and estimating, value engineering, scheduling, subcontractor bidding, site safety, closeout
• Specialties: Acting as the owner’s in-house construction department on landmarked cultural buildings

Westerman is a construction manager rather than an at-risk GC, which is the right model for an institution that does not have a facilities department large enough to run a renovation itself. The client list is the city’s cultural core: the Frick Collection’s Portico Gallery, the Public Theater’s facade restoration and new lobby, the Brooklyn Public Library’s Greenpoint branch and environmental education center, the Schomburg Center, Hauser & Wirth and the Flea Theater. The Leon Levy Information Commons at Brooklyn Public Library won design awards. For a museum, library or theater board renovating a landmarked building, Westerman is the firm that sits on your side of the table and bids the trades for you.

Website: westermancm.com

17. Volmar Construction, Inc. (Sunset Park, Brooklyn)

• Industries They Serve: Government, institutional, education, courthouses, libraries, public housing
• Project Sizes: $500K to $15M
• Years in Business: Since 1988
• Revenue per Year: Est. $30M to $80M
• Services They Provide: General contracting, firm-fixed-price and job order contracting, green infrastructure
• Specialties: Public-sector JOC and occupied-building renovations for DASNY, CUNY, GSA and the city

Volmar is the public-works specialist of this list, founded in 1988 by Artemios Marinakis and John Volandes and still run from Sunset Park. The firm holds job order contracts with DASNY and CUNY, where current orders include repairs at Brooklyn College and City College, and its federal resume includes 26 Federal Plaza and the Emanuel Celler U.S. Courthouse modernization. Cultural and civic credits include the Queens Museum expansion, the Hunters Point library and the World Trade Center Memorial’s eternal flame. The firm runs an ISO 9001-aligned quality system, which matters when the owner is a public agency that scores process. For a city or state agency, or a private institution that wants a bonded contractor used to occupied-building work, Volmar belongs on the list.

Website: volmar.com

Multifamily Capital Improvements, Facade Restoration and Local Law 11

Every New York building over six stories has to be inspected and repaired on a five-year cycle, and the 2026 sidewalk shed reforms just put owners on a clock. These are the firms that run the exterior program and the occupied-building capital work that goes with it.

18. Dualcore Construction Management (Garment District)

• Industries They Serve: Multifamily value-add and capital improvements, commercial build-outs, high-end interiors, adaptive reuse, Local Law 11 facade work
• Project Sizes: $250K to $5M
• Years in Business: Since 2022
• Revenue per Year: Est. $10M to $25M
• Services They Provide: General contracting, construction management, Procore and Matterport project workflows
• Specialties: Occupied multifamily capital programs (boilers, HVAC, electrical service, common areas) paired with the facade cycle

Dualcore is the youngest firm on this list and the one to watch for owners of 20 to 100-unit buildings. Principal Conor Moran is a civil engineer who ran a 20-story East Midtown condo and a 48-story Midtown hotel as a project manager and superintendent before starting the firm in 2022, and he holds his own DOB Construction Superintendent and Site Safety Manager licenses, which under the 2026 one-job-per-superintendent rule is a real scheduling advantage. The work is occupied multifamily repositioning: a 25-plus unit building with new boiler, HVAC, electrical service and common areas, a vertical enlargement on East 111th Street, and Local Law 11 facade restoration in Brooklyn. Small means the principal is on your roof, not on a dashboard. For an owner who needs one firm for the capital-improvement program and the FISP cycle, Dualcore is built for exactly that.

Website: dualcorecm.com

19. Xinos Construction Corp. (College Point, Queens)

• Industries They Serve: Co-op, condo and rental facade restoration, roofing and parapets, balconies, terra cotta, interior commercial alterations
• Project Sizes: $250K to $3M
• Years in Business: Decades; DOB general contractor registration dating back to the 1990s
• Revenue per Year: Est. $20M to $40M
• Services They Provide: General contracting for exterior restoration programs and interior alterations
• Specialties: Program-style FISP work for property managers running multiple buildings

Xinos pulled 199 NYC permits in 2025, up from 150 in 2024 and 75 in 2023, which is the clearest sign on this list of a firm scaling with the Local Law 11 cycle. The work is the bread and butter of Cycle 10: a $1.8 million facade, lintel and parapet replacement at 1751 Second Avenue, a $1 million facade, balcony and roof restoration at 1381 Linden Boulevard, terra cotta and brick restoration at 375 West End Avenue for an AKAM-managed co-op, and a brownstone restoration on Mount Morris Park West. It also does the interior commercial work that follows, including a retail-to-restaurant conversion on Ninth Avenue. For a property manager running FISP across a portfolio, one GC that can handle the exterior program and the interior punch list is worth the call.

Website: Xinos Construction permit profile on BuildZoom

20. Able Restoration Inc. (Manhattan)

• Industries They Serve: Local Law 11 and FISP compliance, Local Law 126 parking structures, waterproofing, roofing, historic preservation, sidewalks
• Project Sizes: $200K to $5M
• Years in Business: More than 35 years; second-generation family ownership
• Revenue per Year: Est. $15M to $40M
• Services They Provide: Exterior restoration contracting with in-house special riggers and site-safety staff
• Specialties: Unsafe-condition facade response on pre-war commercial and institutional buildings

Able is the one exterior specialist on this list, included because when a FISP inspection comes back Unsafe, a general contractor that subs out the rigging is a week behind a firm that employs its own licensed riggers. Founded by Ahsan Elahi and Amjad Chaudary and now led by second-generation principal Fahad Chaudary, Able has completed more than 1,000 commercial projects, including Local Law 11 and roof work at 39, 42 and 45 Broadway, the Woolworth Building, Mount Sinai and NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital. Clients include Related, Cammeby’s and the major residential management firms. With shed permits now capped at 90 days and owners facing $5,000 to $20,000 penalties for sheds that outlast the repairs, speed on the exterior is no longer optional.

Website: ablerestorationinc.com

The Biggest GC in New York Isn’t the Right One for Your Project

New York’s largest general contractors are excellent companies in the middle of a historic run. That is exactly the problem for your project. With $17.6 billion of casino work, a $19 billion airport and a $7 billion train station on the books, a $3 million or $15 million job lands in one of two places at a billion-dollar GC: the B team, or the polite no-bid. Mid-size contractors told The Real Deal this spring that they are already competing harder for fewer private jobs while union labor flows to the megaprojects, which means the mid-market firms on this list are hungrier and better staffed for your work than they have been in years.

The fee math points the same direction. A large GC’s overhead, with layers of project executives, regional offices and corporate systems, has to be carried by every job it takes. On a $300 million tower that overhead disappears into the number. On your $8 million fit-out it is visible in every general conditions line. A useful rule of thumb: the contractor’s annual revenue should be roughly 3 to 10 times your project value. Below that range they may be stretched; above it you are not important enough to get their best people.

So vet for attention, not just capability. Ask who personally runs your job day to day and meet that person before you sign. Ask how many projects that superintendent carries, because as of January 2026 a DOB Construction Superintendent can be primary on only one job, and from 2027 one has to be on site whenever work is happening, which is quietly shrinking how many jobs a mid-size GC can staff at once. Ask which subcontractors they repeat with, since skilled mechanical and electrical labor is the binding constraint in this market and the GC’s sub relationships are your schedule insurance. And ask for the last three projects of your exact type and size, with owner references, not logos.

One more filter: sector experience beats market rank. A firm that has built 15 restaurants will out-deliver a bigger firm building its second, every time. That is why this list is grouped the way it is. If your project is healthcare, our national healthcare GC list covers the specialists; for restaurant and QSR work, start with our restaurant and QSR GC list.

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