About Newton, MA
Newton is a city of roughly 88,000 residents just west of Boston, notable for being divided into 13 distinct villages rather than a single downtown. Newton Centre, Newtonville, Waban, Chestnut Hill, West Newton, and Auburndale are among the best known, each with its own commercial center, neighborhood feel, and housing character. The city is consistently ranked among the wealthiest in Massachusetts, with home values well above the state median and a large share of owner-occupied properties whose owners tend to make long-term investments in maintenance and improvement. Newton's history and demographics are described on the Newton, Massachusetts Wikipedia article.
The housing stock across Newton's villages skews old. A large share of homes were built before 1940, with Victorian-era houses, Colonial Revivals, and Craftsman bungalows common throughout residential streets. Lots tend to be generous by inner-suburb standards, with long driveways, detached garages, and established landscaping that includes mature trees whose root systems are a consistent factor in concrete flatwork projects. Near village centers like Newtonville and Newton Corner, you find a mix of two- and three-family homes that were subdivided over the decades. Boston College occupies the Chestnut Hill section, and the campus and surrounding neighborhood represent one of the more recognizable parts of the city.
Newton sits adjacent to Boston, MA to the east and is accessible from Cambridge and the broader metro via Route 9 and the Massachusetts Turnpike. We also serve homeowners in nearby Worcester, MA, which sits further west along the I-90 corridor and shares many of the same older housing conditions and freeze-thaw climate factors that affect Newton concrete work.
