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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
It’s easy to get excited about huge paybacks and big jobs. But sometimes it’s the little things that can make you smile. Apparently the pool light above made everyone’s week at the local long-term care center. It has a nice decorative look and really brightened the spot up! Now to be sure; retrofitting the whole … Read more
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