Office campuses in Cambridge, Kendall Square, and the Route 128 corridor have a different set of priorities than retail. Here is what we have learned from serving them.
Commercial lighting for tech tenants is a different conversation than commercial lighting for retail. The tenants have different expectations, the property managers have different priorities, and the buildings themselves are usually more modern.
What Tech Property Managers Want
Restraint. The clients we serve in Cambridge, Kendall Square, and along the 128 corridor want holiday lighting that reads professional and tasteful, not festive. Warm white roofline runs, clean entrance treatments, restrained accent lighting. Nobody is asking for animated displays.
Coordinated Multi-Building Campuses
Most tech corridor properties are multi-building campuses. The lighting needs to read as a coordinated design across the property, which means we design the whole campus at once rather than building by building. Roofline runs match in color temperature, entrance treatments echo each other, and shared spaces between buildings get their own design layer.
Tenant Coordination
Tech tenants run events. They host candidate dinners, customer demos, all-hands meetings. The install schedule has to work around those events. We coordinate install timing with the facilities team and we are practiced at working overnight or on weekends when needed.
Annual Contracts
Most of our tech corridor clients sign annual contracts. The contract locks in design, install date, in-season service, takedown, and storage. The property manager makes one decision in August and the lighting handles itself for the rest of the year.
Where We Work
We serve commercial properties across the Boston tech corridor, in Cambridge, Kendall Square, Watertown, Waltham, and along 128. We also serve the smaller tech clusters in Manchester and Nashua, New Hampshire.