Friday, September 6, 2013

The Success-driven Career of Massachusetts Building Executive Kevin Craffey

As CEO and owner of Craffey & Co., Builders Inc., since 1995, Kevin Craffey heads a Plymouth, Massachusetts contracting firm that has completed diverse retail and commercial projects spanning the country. He directs the efforts of approximately 150 employees in undertaking additions and renovations of high-profile mall tenants and big box retailers. Mr. Craffey also leads the regionally focused KJ Realty Trust Corporation / Court Street Trust, which had pursued office, commercial, and residential development projects in communities such as Avon and Hanover. Among his additional ventures is K & J Interiors, Inc., which has provided highest quality carpentry sub-contracting services since the late 1980s.

Kevin Craffey’s entrepreneurial background includes six years engaged with Mountain View Development as owner and president. Beginning in the late 1990s, he led an enterprise that undertook a major hotel restoration project in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Leading a team of 300 employees, he restored a renowned 200-room grand hotel. The project required the coordinated financing support from than a dozen federal and state agencies. Within a period of two years, he had successfully brought the property to preeminent four-diamond and AAA four-diamond status. Kevin Craffey additionally collaborated with the Whitefield school system in the development of Mountain View Academy, a pioneering public-private hospitality internship program. His leadership in the project ended with the successful sale of Mountain View Development to the Great American Corporation in 2005.

Mr. Craffey holds a degree in Business administration earned at Massasoit Community College. He undertook a four-year apprenticeship through the Massachusetts Carpenters Training Center in  Allston and ultimately earned his Carpentry Journeyman Certificate through the Associated General Contractors of America.

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