Commercial Holiday Lighting · Burlington

Commercial Holiday Lighting in Burlington

Downtown Burlington's holiday season is a walking season, with the Festival of Lights at the foot of Brant Street and the parade up it. Businesses and buildings nearby are lit to match.

Commercial holiday lighting follows the same safety rules as a house, on a different calendar and with more paperwork. Storefronts want to be lit for the first weekend of the Festival of Lights and the parade, property managers want one schedule and one invoice, and offices want the entrance done without disrupting the working day.

Who it is for

• Downtown storefronts. Brant Street and the streets around it, where people walk past on their way to Spencer Smith Park. Window outlines, awnings, door garland and lit planters.
• Plazas. Along Plains Road, Appleby Line, Guelph Line and Fairview Street: rooflines, tree wraps in the islands and entrance features, seen from the road at driving speed.
• Condominium corporations. Lakeshore towers and townhouse complexes across the city: entrance canopies, common-element trees and clubhouse rooflines, quoted to the board.
• Offices and business parks. Front entrances and landscaping in the employment areas near the QEW and the 407.

Permanent lighting for commercial buildings

A permanent track along a storefront fascia or plaza roofline gives a business warm-white architectural lighting all year and holiday colours in season, without an annual install. It needs the landlord's or the board's consent, and any new circuit is done by a Licensed Electrical Contractor with ESA notification.

Paperwork and access

Certificates of insurance and WSIB clearance are provided for property managers. Lift access, sidewalk use and work hours are planned in the quote. Work is scheduled before opening or after close.

Designing for how people see it

A downtown storefront is seen on foot, so the detail at eye level matters most. A plaza is seen from a car, so bold rooflines do the work. A condominium entrance is seen by residents every evening for six weeks, so a calm warm white usually serves better than a busy colour scheme. The design is drawn on photos and priced line by line so a board or owner can trim it before signing.

Service

Commercial installs include service calls through the season. Takedown is booked for early January or after the date you set.

Timing for businesses

Commercial calendars run earlier than residential ones. Downtown storefronts generally want to be lit before the Festival of Lights opens in Spencer Smith Park at the end of November, and the parade on Brant Street a week or so later brings the largest daytime crowd of the season past the shop windows. Plazas and business parks often want the work finished before the first corporate events in early December. Condominium boards meet monthly, so a quote that needs board approval should be requested in September or early October to make a November install. Booking early also secures lift access on the dates that suit you; late jobs are fitted around the residential schedule.

Frequently asked questions

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