CRE

Your parking lot is costing you tenants.

Open-air shopping centers, strip malls, office parks, and mixed-use properties. Full-site LED retrofits that cut CAM charges, eliminate bucket truck rolls, and make the property feel premium after dark.

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Typical payback

40-70%

Energy reduction (DOE)

CAM

Fully recoverable

What we hear

The pain points we keep seeing.

Parking lot outages create liability fast.

Aging metal halide pole lights fail at different rates. One dark section generates tenant complaints, safety risk, and insurance exposure. Your maintenance team is chasing outages instead of preventing them.

CAM pressure is relentless.

Tenants audit CAM line items. Energy and lighting maintenance are the first charges they question. Retail owners get hammered on opex, and every dollar of waste shows up in tenant negotiations.

Vendor no-shows burn your credibility.

Retail PMs hate chasing trades. When a sign goes dark or a circuit trips, you need same-day resolution. Most failures happen nights and weekends, exactly when your current vendor is unreachable.

Deferred maintenance catches up at the worst time.

Bids explode when they are ignored. Constant small electrical tickets from tenants — outlets, breakers, flickers — add up. Without a multi-year refresh plan, surprise capex destroys your budget.

The math

CAM-recoverable. Self-funding. Tenant-friendly.

Most open-air retail centers use NNN leases where lighting maintenance rolls into CAM. LED retrofits qualify as cost-saving capital improvements and are amortizable through CAM at prime + 1-2%. The dual benefit: tenants see lower CAM charges, landlords get a modernized asset with higher valuation.

Common area lighting is the #1 CAM-recoverable upgrade — amortization typically equals or beats savings
Every $10K/yr in savings at a 7% cap rate adds approximately $142K to asset value
Typical energy reduction: 40-70% (DOE). Most projects pay back in 1.5-3 years, measured post-install
LED retrofits cut lighting power 40-70% (DOE verified) and eliminate most relamping costs

Projects in CRE

Real creprojects we’ve delivered.

We have retrofitted JLL-managed centers, Crawford Square properties, Nuveen industrial and retail portfolios, Kimco and Regency Centers shopping centers, Pine Tree properties, Brixmor retail, and strip centers from Alabama to California. The math is the same every time: payback typically under 3 years, drone-documented before and after for your investment committee.

Institutional CRE Portfolio

Nuveen

A national real estate investment manager needed to standardize lighting across their retail portfolio — different fixtures, different ages, different states. We audited each property, designed a unified LED specification, secured rebates in each market, and installed under one accountable contract. Operating costs dropped immediately. Maintenance calls stopped.

Multi-state retail portfolio

Lifestyle Center

Birkdale Village

A 250,000-square-foot lifestyle center in Huntersville, North Carolina — home to premium tenants including lululemon, Sephora, Anthropologie, Williams-Sonoma, and J.Crew. As a lifestyle center serving one of the Charlotte metro's fastest-growing suburbs, the property's exterior lighting needed to match the upscale tenant mix and the high foot traffic the center consistently draws.

Huntersville, NC

Regional Retail Center

River Hills Shopping Center

An 813,000-square-foot regional center in Birmingham, Alabama, served by Alabama Power. Over three decades of operation, the exterior lighting infrastructure had aged significantly, creating both performance and cost challenges.

Birmingham, AL

Grocery-Anchored Retail

Creeks at Virginia Centre

A 257,838-square-foot retail center in Glen Allen, Virginia, anchored by Publix, T.J. Maxx, Ross Dress for Less, Petco, and Rack Room Shoes. Served by Dominion Energy Virginia, the property is a high-traffic grocery-anchored center in the Richmond metro that operates from early morning through late evening hours.

Glen Allen, VA

Power Center

Marketplace at Mill Creek

A 265,110-square-foot power center in Buford, Georgia, anchored by Lowe's, Marshalls, Ross, Old Navy, and Party City. Served by Georgia Power, this well-positioned center in the fast-growing Gwinnett County market generates consistent traffic and requires reliable, high-quality lighting across its full site.

Buford, GA

Neighborhood Retail

Publix at Weston Commons

A 96,183-square-foot grocery-anchored center in Weston, Florida, home to Publix, UPS Store, Bank of America, AT&T, and Great Clips. Served by FPL, the property sees consistent daily traffic from early morning through late evening.

Weston, FL