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Generation Next
Nicole Bercume Steers Her Father’s Company into a Bright Future
BY JOSEPH BEDNAR
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“My dad had created such a fantastic company. It would be a shame if it didn’t continue.”
When Ron Bercume passed away in 2021, his daughter, Nicole Bercume, said there was never a doubt that she would pick up the mantle of leadership in Bercume Builders, the company he started almost 40 years ago.
But it was a winding road that brought Nicole to that point, along which she settled in Florida, got married, built a law career with her husband, Andrew Bass, had kids, and returned home to Hadley.
Before her father succumbed to pancreatic cancer in October 2021, Bercume was already helping him build the final seven homes in a 28-home development in North Hadley called Shattuck Estates and Sapphire Estates; when he passed away, she stepped in and worked with the company’s longtime subcontractors to finish the job. By that time, she had already decided to stay on and continue Ron’s work.
“My dad had created such a fantastic company,” she told BusinessWest. “It would be a shame if it didn’t continue.”
Today, those 28 large homes on Crystal Lane, Indian Pipe Drive, and Nikki’s Way stand as the last success story in Ron’s career and the first in Nicole’s new one. Beyond that development, she is currently building her third house on a lot on Colony Drive, right across Shat- tuck Road, with a goal of creating a constant flow of resi- dential projects, and even expanding the business beyond
Nicole Bercume stands outside one of her current projects in Hadley.
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