Commercial Locksmith in Atlanta, GA

Buckhead: retail units and office towers

Around the meeting of Lenox, Peachtree and Piedmont roads, Buckhead has more than 1,500 retail units. Lenox Square opened in 1959, and office development followed with Tower Place in 1974. In a mall or a multi-tenant office building, the lease may say who can change the lock on your own space. Read it, or ask the property manager, before changing or rekeying a suite or storefront lock.

Downtown: Peachtree Center

Peachtree Center took shape in the early 1970s and holds convention hotels, shopping galleries and office buildings, most designed by John Portman. Enclosed sky bridges tie the buildings together above the street, so a business there may have doors on more than one level: a street entrance, a gallery storefront, a back-of-house door or a door onto a bridge corridor. When you ask about work, list each door, its level and whether it is yours or the building's.

Older buildings and historic districts

Castleberry Hill, in the southwest part of Downtown, began as a 19th-century district of cotton warehouses and grocers and has been a City of Atlanta Landmark District since 2006. A business in an older building there should ask Urban Design Commission staff before changing the original door or the hardware on its outside face. Rekeying the existing cylinders leaves the door face unchanged. This is general information, not legal advice.

Staff turnover and keys

When an employee leaves or a tenant moves out, keys can leave too. In a multi-tenant Buckhead office building, a rekey covers only the doors that are yours, so ask the property manager about shared ones. Three tools help:

• Rekeying the affected locks, so the old keys stop working
• a master key system, so managers open every door while staff keys open only their own
• a key log recording who holds which key

In a commercial locksmith request, give the building and suite, the number of doors and locks, who controls each one and whether the keys should work alike or as a master system. Use the contact page, or see the Atlanta page for local notes.