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We provide commercial cleaning, security and concierge services for the greater Boston area.

We have kept our client’s facilities clean, safe and secure for over 40 years.

10/30/2026

The clocks fall back this Sunday, November 1. Starting Monday, it will be dark before five, which means most people will be leaving work in the dark for the rest of the winter.

Our security team plans for that change. During the darker months, the end of the workday becomes one of the busiest times for building security, so team members spend more of that hour at the main entrances and along the routes people take to parking and transit.

They also keep an eye out for burned-out lights, dark walkways, and doors still locking and unlocking on a summer schedule, and they report what they find so it gets fixed.

If you notice a light out or a dark stretch on your way to the car, let the front desk or building management know. Those reports help get problems fixed quickly.

A bright lobby, a familiar face at the door, and well-lit paths outside make a real difference on a dark November evening. Our teams are ready for it.

10/28/2026

Facility Field Guide: Halloween Edition.

We're starting a new series of seasonal reminders for the buildings we serve around Boston, and they're good reminders for any building.

Halloween is Saturday, and the clocks fall back early Sunday morning. Here are a few things we're keeping in mind this weekend:
- Keep decorations clear of exits, exit signs, sprinklers, and fire alarms.
- Skip real candles, including inside jack-o'-lanterns. An open flame near paper decorations or costumes is a real fire hazard, and battery candles look just as good.
- If you live in a building with a front desk, check how your building is handling trick-or-treaters and guests this year, so everyone knows what to expect.
- If you're hosting a Friday office party, give your cleaning team a heads-up so the space is ready on Monday.
- And remember to set your clocks back. Starting Monday, it'll be dark by 4:30 on the way home in Boston.

Have a fun and safe Halloween weekend. We'll be keeping an eye on things.

10/23/2026

Have you ever heard of tailgating? Not the kind in a parking lot before a Patriots game. In building security, tailgating means following someone through a secure door without badging in, and as the weather gets colder in Boston, it happens a lot. Everyone is hurrying inside with their hands full, and someone always holds the door.

Holding the door is a kind thing to do. In a building with card access, though, it’s also one of the most common ways someone who doesn’t belong gets inside. All it takes is good manners and a rainy morning.

Here’s how our security guards handle it:

They make sure the doors themselves work. A door that closes slowly or doesn’t latch in the cold gets reported and fixed first.

They’re at the main entrance when it’s busiest, during the morning rush and when people come back from lunch, because that’s when most tailgating happens.

When someone comes in behind a cardholder, they start with a friendly hello and a simple question: “Hello, who are you here to see?” Almost always, there’s an easy answer and the visitor gets pointed to the front desk.

And they check side doors, loading docks, and stairwells on every round, since those are the doors most likely to get propped open for a delivery and forgotten.

A building can feel welcoming and still be secure. Finding that balance is a big part of what our guards do every day, and it starts with something as simple as a door that closes.

10/21/2026

Cold and flu season is starting in Boston. The windows are closing, the heat is coming on, and we’re all spending more time indoors together. Our cleaning teams have shifted into their cold-weather routine, and we thought it would be useful to share what that routine involves, because there’s more to it than most people think.

1. Cleaning and disinfecting are two different steps. Cleaning removes the dirt and residue. Disinfecting kills the germs. Disinfectant doesn’t work well on a dirty surface, so cleaning always comes first.
2. Disinfectant needs time. Every product has a “contact time” on its label, the number of minutes a surface needs to stay wet for it to work. Our teams follow it.
3. The focus is on what people touch most: door handles, elevator buttons, railings, restroom fixtures, and shared kitchen areas. In busy buildings, those spots get attention more than once a day.
4. Separate cloths for separate areas, so nothing used in a restroom ever ends up in a break room.
5. And finally, full soap dispensers, paper towels, and hand sanitizer stations, checked on every round, especially at the main entrances where everyone comes in from the cold.

It’s steady, careful work, and our crews do it in buildings across Greater Boston every day, from the first cold snap to the last nor’easter.

10/15/2026

After years of holiday seasons in package rooms across Greater Boston, our concierge teams have learned that a smooth December starts in October.

The trouble usually starts on a single afternoon. Three carriers arrive at once, the shelves are already full, and boxes start piling up. So before the rush, our teams work with each building to settle a few things ahead of time:
- Where packages go when the main room is full.
- When the delivery trucks actually arrive, so there’s extra help at the desk when it counts.
- A safe spot for after-hours deliveries, so nothing ends up stacked in the lobby.
- How long packages can be held, so everyone knows what to expect.
- Who can pick up a package for someone else.
A plan for January, when holiday returns turn the package room into a shipping room.

And thank you to our concierge and package room attendants, who are about to have their busiest weeks of the year.

10/13/2026

Fall is the best time of year to take care of a building’s floors, and most people don’t think about it until spring.

Right now, floors are dry and there’s time to do the work properly. Once winter arrives, every entrance becomes a path for salt, sand, and slush. Ice-melt residue dulls floor finish, gets ground in by foot traffic, and over a full season can wear right through. Carpet takes the same beating, holding onto salt and moisture that are hard to get out once they set in.

So this time of year, our cleaning teams are busy getting buildings ready. They’re refinishing lobby floors so a fresh protective layer is down before the first storm, deep cleaning carpet at entrances and busy hallways, and setting up winter matting at the doors that see the most traffic.

It’s quiet work that most people never notice, and that’s how it should be. A floor that looks good in March is one somebody took care of in October.

Thank you to our teams who handle this every fall, building by building.

10/08/2026

Checking in ahead of the long weekend. With Monday's holiday, many buildings around Greater Boston will be quiet through Monday night. Worth a quick look before you go: access lists, scheduled vendor work, and your on-call plan. Have a great weekend. We'll be keeping an eye on things.

10/06/2026

What does "kick the tires" mean to a cleaning and facilities team?

For Kevin McGarr, it was a piece of advice handed to him by a client early on: never assume the job is done right until you've gone out and inspected it with your own eyes.

Decades later, that philosophy hasn't changed. Our supervisors still walk every floor, check the corners, and catch the small details before they ever become issues. No shortcuts, no guesswork—just showing up every single day.

Read the full story on fifty years of doing the work the right way: https://dub.sh/lbpq5Lp

10/01/2026

Our newest story is live, and it's a special one: how Kevin McGarr went from selling for NCR to founding the company that carries his name. Fifty-two years of showing up, told in his own words. We're proud of this one.

Read it here: https://dub.sh/B0NCX09

09/29/2026

The sun sets a little earlier over Boston every evening now. By November, many of the people in the buildings we serve will be heading home in the dark.

Our security and concierge teams are there through all of it: familiar faces at the desk, steady rounds after dark, and the kind of presence that makes a building feel looked after.

They know which doors should be locked by six, which tenants tend to work late, and who might appreciate an es**rt to the garage. Small things, done consistently, are what people come to count on this time of year.

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233 Needham Street
Newton, MA
02464

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Website

https://www.mcgarrservicecorp.com/

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