John Gallagher is a Construction Consultant / Project Engineer working out of Beacon's NYC office. In his free time, John is one of the coaches assisting with The Phoenix Special Olympics Club based in Oceanport, NJ. The team trains at Shore Regional High School. John's 16-year-old daughter Anna is one of the athletes on the Phoenix team. John and his wife Tara adopted Anna from Russia when she was 11 months old. John and Anna joined the Phoenix club in 2010 when Anna was seven years old, after the family moved to NJ from Ireland...
On May 3rd, 2019, Beacon's President Dennis O'Neill was awarded the 2019 Small Business / Big Impact Award at Boston's Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh was the keynote speaker at the event, which honored Dennis and 30+ other business leaders. Beacon Consulting Group was a good fit for the awards in that the company's construction consulting services make a major impact on construction projects of all sizes...
Beacon's NYC team is providing construction consulting services for a number of high-profile construction projects in New York City. For more than a decade, Beacon has been providing pre-construction consulting, construction-loan-monitoring and related services for banks and other entities involved in the financing of new construction projects throughout the U.S. With the construction boom in New York City in recent years, Beacon has been actively involved in loan monitoring for a number of high-rise residential, commercial and hotel building projects. Two hotel projects which Beacon has been providing loan monitoring services for in recent months are located in midtown Manhattan.
Beacon's founder Dennis O'Neill has been involved in many 5K and 10K fun runs for charity over the years. Over this past winter, Dennis ran in the Boston Jolly Jaunt in order to raise funds for Special Olympics of Massachusetts (SOMA). The 5K race/fundraiser, whose main sponsor is the New Balance Foundation, included a 5K race route through Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.
Located between 10th and 12th Avenues from West 30th to West 34th Street, Hudson Yards is a private real estate development located on the West Side of New York City. It is reportedly the largest private real estate development in the United States by area. Upon completion, 13 of the 16 planned structures on the West Side of Midtown South will sit on a platform built over the West Side Yard (a storage yard for Long Island Rail Road trains). The first of Hudson Yards' two phases opened in 2019. It includes a public green space and eight buildings which include residences, a hotel, office buildings, many retail shops, and cultural institutions. The second phase, projected to be completed by 2024, will include additional residential space, an office building, and a school...
Beacon Consulting Group has been selected to provide construction monitoring services for a new construction project underway in Manhattan. The 22-story tower is being built in the NoMad section of NYC. Groundbreaking took place in January of 2019. The new building is being developed by GDSNY (based in NYC) in partnership with Klövern, a Sweden-based real estate development and management company.
In observance of Presidents' Day, Beacon Consulting Group will be closed on Monday, Feb. 18th. While we are away, please enjoy some of these fun, lesser-known facts about George Washington and Presidents' Day. For example, in 1789, George Washington earned $25,000 as President of the U.S (2% of the total U.S. budget at the time). In current dollars, that would be more than $725,000! Read on for more...
Each year in early December, members of Beacon's team gather in Boston for our annual company meeting and holiday dinner. This year, our meeting was held on December 7th at the Omni Parker House Hotel in downtown Boston.
On behalf of everyone at Beacon Consulting Group, I would like to wish you and your family Happy Holidays and best wishes for a healthy, happy, and successful New Year.
It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our friend Mike Paquet, who passed away peacefully in early December after being diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. In recent years, Mike worked as a construction consultant for Beacon, mostly working on site to help monitor, supervise and expedite the completion of construction projects on behalf of surety companies.
