Commercial Locksmith in Springfield, MA

Springfield's business districts and their doors

• Metro Center. Springfield's civic and business center since 1636 mixes downtown high-rises and nightlife with Neo-Classical cultural institutions. In an office tower, the street entrance and lobby generally belong to the building, while a tenant controls its own suite door. Changes to any shared door go through the property manager.
• Boston Road. Shopping plazas built around car travel line this road. If your unit has an aluminum-frame glass storefront, its lock is often a narrow-stile deadlock with a mortise cylinder, which differs from residential hardware, and the rear service door usually has its own lock and key.
• Mason Square. McKnight's commercial district is also home to American International College. For a shop or office here, say whether you lease the space and who holds keys to the building's outer doors.
• Indian Orchard. This former mill town on the Chicopee River now has artists' spaces in some of its mill buildings. A converted mill with many small tenants can have a shared building entrance plus each unit's own door, so key control involves both the landlord and each tenant.

Staff and tenant turnover

Every departing employee or tenant may leave with a key, or a copy of one. Common ways to keep control:

• Rekeying the affected cylinders so old keys stop working.
• Interchangeable-core cylinders, which let a manager swap a core without removing the lock.
• Master key systems, so a manager carries one key while staff keys open only their own areas.
• Restricted keyways, whose blanks are not sold over the counter, making unapproved copies harder to get.
• A written key log that records who holds which key and when it came back.

What to send

Give the business address, which doors are involved (storefront, rear, suite or interior), whether you or the building owner holds each lock, how many keys are out, and whether you want one key system across several doors or sites. A business with sites in Springfield and Worcester should say so. See commercial locksmith and the Springfield page.