Transforming a Vaulted Ceiling with Cost-Effective Cove Lighting Using Diode LED

Cove lighting is one of the most impactful ways to elevate an architectural feature—especially a vaulted or wood-paneled ceiling like this one. In this project, the goal was clear: create a warm, inviting glow that highlights the ceiling’s natural texture without overcomplicating the system or inflating the budget. The solution? A dedicated, single-color cove lighting … Read more

Smarter Lighting at the Minneapolis Convention Center: High Performance Without the Premium Price

Large public venues face a constant balancing act: delivering exceptional visual experiences while managing long-term operational costs. The Minneapolis Convention Center recently demonstrated how smart lighting decisions can achieve both—by replacing expensive specification-grade downlights with high-quality commercial-grade downlights that deliver clean, high-output illumination at a fraction of the cost. The result? A modernized lighting system … Read more

Replacing Dotted LED in Cooler Doors to 5′ Frosted LED T8 Bulbs

Customer Profile: Sun Empire foods is an ethnic grocery store with huge offerings of asian foods, spices and much more! They have numerous locations and their new store in Brooklyn Center opened up in 2024 and has been a huge hit within the community. Goal: The new Sun Empire location was previously a Walmart that … Read more

Upgrading Semi-Flush Fixtures in Multi-Housing Buildings: Safe, Simple LED Retrofits from Premier Lighting

At Premier Lighting, we’ve worked with multi-housing property managers for years, helping solve one of the most persistent lighting issues in common areas: aging semi-flush ceiling fixtures. You know the ones – decorative glass bowls with compact fluorescent lamps that stay on 24/7 in hallways and stairwells. While they may still light up, the heat … Read more

Retrofitting Warehouse to LED for Indoor Soccer Arena

Commercial space all over the country is being converted for different uses, and we see it all the time when we do lighting upgrades. Often times when a tenant moves from a space, that is when the owner realizes it makes sense to upgrade lighting for the future tenant. As always, the most important part … Read more

Lapham Hickey Steel – Warehouse/Production Area LED Highbay Upgrade with Sensors

Customer Profile: Lapham-Hickey Steel is a strong partner that you can rely on. They are a family owned, financially secure company with a storied history dating back to 1926. Lapham-Hickey offers an extremely diverse product line and specializes in a wide variety of value-added processing services. Lapham-Hickey has a distribution network of ten processing facilities, … Read more

Community Dental Care Retrofits Office with 2×2 & 2×4 LED Retro Kits

2x2 and 2x4 LED Retrofit Kits from Fluorescent T8

Customer Profile: Community Dental Care is the largest nonprofit Medicaid dental provider in Minnesota, providing a complete array of preventative, restorative and emergency dental services to a diverse community of individuals, families, and the elderly – anyone who needs care. Goal: Premier Lighting was called upon by the Community Dental Care of Maplewood to audit … Read more

Centennial Middle School Auditorium LED Aisle Lights

Centennial schools have been working with Premier for many years; this includes retrofitting gyms, classrooms, outdoor lighting, you name it! But one area was left alone until recently. Many schools have theatre and auditorium lights that get overlooked. Often times it is their house stage lighting (we can retrofit those too) but what about aisle … Read more

LED Tube-Ready T5 Fixtures: Retrofitting 1000 F54T5HO Lamps to 25W Bypass LED T5s

Premier Lighting has retrofitted hundreds of thousands of fluorescent fixtures to LED yet we still have fun with unique requests. One of our clients had purchased several 25W LED T5 bypass tubes from us to retrofit existing fluorescent fixtures and now were looking for LED T5-ready 4′ 6-lamp fixtures to supplement the lighting in a … Read more