Commercial, HOA & Estate
Grounds lighting, professionally managed
Offices, restaurants, common areas, and larger properties have requirements a residential install does not: zoning, scheduling, documented maintenance, and one number to call when something goes dark.
Built to be maintained, not just installed
The difference between a commercial system and a large residential one is what happens in year three. Commercial installations are documented: zone maps, transformer locations, circuit schedules, and a fixture schedule handed over at completion, so the next facilities manager is not guessing which breaker feeds the monument sign.
Fixtures are specified for serviceability as much as for appearance. That means standard lamp types where possible, junctions that can be reached without excavating a bed, and transformers sized with headroom so a future phase does not require replacing them.
For HOAs we phase work across entries, common areas, and monuments over multiple budget cycles while keeping the design coherent from the first phase — so what goes in this year still looks deliberate alongside what goes in three years from now.
Commercial capabilities
- Entrance monuments, signage, and flagpole lighting
- Common-area paths, courtyards, and amenity spaces
- Storefront and building facade lighting
- Parking areas, walkways, and path-of-travel lighting
- Zone maps, fixture schedules, and circuit documentation at handover
- Astronomical time-clock scheduling with holiday and event programming
- Scheduled maintenance, re-aiming, and re-lamp programs
Working around a business day
Commercial work in Reno and Sparks mostly happens outside business hours, and that shapes the schedule more than the scope does. Restaurant lots get worked in the morning, office parks in the evening, retail frontage almost never on a weekend. We plan the phasing around your trading hours and confirm it in writing before mobilising.
The aiming pass has to happen after dark regardless, which for a commercial property usually means a scheduled evening visit with your facilities contact present. It is worth the hour: aiming is where a competent installation becomes a good one, and having the person who will live with the property there to say “that one is too bright” saves a return trip.
For HOAs, we can attend a board meeting to walk through phasing and budget rather than leaving a proposal to be interpreted second-hand.
What it costs
Commercial and HOA work is quoted after a property survey, and for larger sites we usually price it in phases so it can be budgeted across cycles. What moves the number:
Total site area and the number of separate zones; distance between zones, since long runs to a monument or a far entry drive both material and labor; existing infrastructure and whether power is already available where it is needed; fixture specification and the serviceability standard required; documentation deliverables; scheduling constraints and whether work must happen outside business hours; and whether an ongoing maintenance agreement is included.
We will walk the grounds after dark, map the zones, and give you a phased plan you can take to a board or a budget committee.
Commercial and HOA lighting across Reno & Sparks
Commercial work runs across the Truckee Meadows: downtown and midtown Reno storefronts, the South Meadows and Double Diamond business parks, Meadowood, and the retail and hospitality corridor around the Sparks Marina. Each has different constraints — downtown frontage is worked at night, business parks in the early morning, restaurants around service hours.
On the HOA side we work with associations throughout Somersett, ArrowCreek, Damonte Ranch, Wingfield Springs, and Kiley Ranch on entry monuments, common-area paths, and amenity spaces, usually phased across budget cycles.
Request a property survey
Tell us about the site and we will walk the grounds after dark, map the zones, and give you a phased plan you can take to a board or a budget committee.
- Free after-dark property survey
- Phased plans that can be budgeted across cycles
- Zone maps and circuit documentation at handover
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Commercial and HOA questions
Can the work be phased across budget years?
Yes, and for larger properties we recommend it. We design the whole site first, then break it into phases that each look finished on their own — so phase one is not visibly waiting for phase two to make sense.
What documentation do we receive?
Zone maps, transformer and circuit locations, and a fixture schedule at handover. The intent is that a facilities manager who arrives in three years can service the system without calling us to find out how it was built.
Do you offer ongoing maintenance?
Yes. Scheduled maintenance covers re-aiming, cleaning, lamp and fixture replacement, and seasonal schedule changes. On commercial properties the aiming drifts fastest, because landscaping is maintained more aggressively than in a residential yard.
Can you work outside business hours?
Yes, and usually we have to. Phasing is planned around your trading hours and confirmed in writing before we mobilise. The aiming pass happens after dark regardless of the install schedule.
Do you attend HOA board meetings?
We can. Walking a board through phasing and budget in person tends to be far more productive than leaving a written proposal to be interpreted without us there.
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Let’s light it right.
Book a free evening walk of the property. You will see a fixture-by-fixture plan and a rendering of your own home lit before you commit to anything.