Company of the Month: Menemsha is celebrating 25 years with client partners and friends across multiple markets

By Jay Fox, Menemsha

An idea for a company, from two college buddies, that grew strong and successful by rethinking how to design and construct buildings better.

A simple idea to work collaboratively and to listen closely to what a client needs, utilize the best technologies and engage the best talent. Always. That’s where 25 years of friendship, curiosity and passion can take you.

While our roots are in restaurant and retail development, we now work across multiple market segments. From banking, higher education, healthcare, and corporate offices to complete commercial development projects – we’ve grown simply by helping our clients grow smart.

Menemsha is a vertically integrated company; we truly specialize in each service we provide. By sharing expertise between our divisions, we’ve become the best in the industry through this shared knowledge. It’s that simple.

Our clients Include: Starbucks, lululemon, Chase Bank, Vineyard Vines, Dunkin Donuts, Bank of America, Verizon, Wawa, Santander, Stewart’s, Bloomin’ Brands, Citizen’s Bank, Office Depot, Shake Shack, Blaze Pizza, Sephora, Petco, McDonald’s, Chipotle, Gensler, Callison, Jones Lang LaSalle, CBRE, Colliers, and a few large online and cutting-edge consumer product companies that we are not authorized to share.

We started with construction and quickly added facility survey services. Our clients asked for more, and since we’re very good listeners, we added architecture and interior design. With all of these great businesses now within our family, we decided to create a program management division for clients that wanted to leverage our expertise in orchestrating and navigating complex projects. Today, Menemsha’s Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) methodology links our diverse skill sets across one or all of our service lines. We know that shared knowledge between expert teams and resources drives better outcomes sooner, and for less cost.

From a modest start in Los Angeles, and then with significant growth in Boston and the Northeast, we’ve grown into a nationwide team of diversely skilled professionals. Menemsha is committed to developing a peaceful and safe refuge for every project, large or small.

Menemsha Architecture 

Menemsha Architecture is comprised of a multicultural, creative community of design professionals with diverse backgrounds encompassing all aspects of the profession of architecture. For nearly a quarter century, our designers, branding specialists, and architects have provided our national and international clients with exceptional design solutions. What continues to motivate us is the ever unique nature of our client’s visions. We thrive on surpassing expectations and bringing projects to life. Spaces define moments. They shape memories. We are committed to the creation of designs that bring about and orchestrate meaningful human experiences. We provide innovative, delightful, and fresh solutions to our clients, helping transform the built environment in the process.

Menemsha Survey 

Precision. Technology. Expertise. These have been watchwords for our facility survey team since day one. Fast-forward to the present and our team has surveyed over 15,000 individual facilities and millions of square feet. Our services have grown from our Los Angeles backyard to national and international deployments. Our expansive range of experience and breadth of cutting-edge technology tools come together to meet all your facility information needs. We want to partner with you to provide the highest quality, most accurate information about your building and to allow you to visualize it directly on any smart device. Whether it is a virtual tour, a CAD drawing, a Revit model, an SIR or ADA report, we deliver complete information when and where you need it. It doesn’t matter if you have 1,000 facilities or a single environment, we’ll bring the right technology and methodology to meet your project needs.

Menemsha Management 

Navigators. Mentors. Sherpas. A bit of each is reflected in the guiding philosophy of our work. Program management is complex. We know the questions to ask, the steps to take and the team members to engage. As PM experts, we counsel our clients, help them navigate a path, and do the heavy lifting along the way to a successful program rollout. We know the corners to look around and how to overcome the surprises. We ensure that our experience and expertise will help you reach your destination on time, on quality, and on budget. Frankly, it all starts with you. Our client. Your needs, environment, team and vision is uniquely your own. We start here guided by the principles of taking care of your brand, your people, your time and your budget. Our philosophy is pretty simple;  exceed your expectations. We do this by partnering with the depth of knowledge in our architecture, facility survey, estimating, and general construction teams. 

Menemsha Construction 

We have invested over 25 years growing our construction services division nationwide. In fact, the origins of Menemsha are in providing construction services and construction management. And because of the company’s success and growth in retail and restaurants, we’ve expanded our services to include banking, hospitality, commercial office, c-stores, and big box markets. Our team of highly qualified, skilled, and experienced construction professionals continues to drive results for our customers. Our philosophy is to create a partnership with our clients, not be just a vendor. Someone who digs a little deeper to understand not just the construction deliverables, but also the bigger picture.

• Leadership: Our highly qualified project managers and field superintendents will lead your project from bid phase through construction execution and closeout.

• Thoroughness: We are competitive in our approach and thorough in preparing proposals.

• Tech savvy: Our Online Project Management (OPM) system provides our clients with access to all the real-time data needs: Field daily logs, photos, construction documentation, permitting, RFI’s, cost changes and more.

Leadership, thoroughness, technology, and most especially, commitment.
It is about being your trusted partner, and building your vision.

If you’re curious about the story behind our name: Our founders are from Boston and Cape Cod. Menemsha is a quaint salt-water pond and fishing village on Martha’s Vineyard westerly shore. Menemsha is also an Algonquin Indian team that translates to “calm waters and a peaceful and safe refuge.”

We hope to hear from you soon..www.MenemshaSolutions.com.

Jay Fox is vice president of business development for Menemsha, Boston, Mass.