Commercial Locksmith in Lansing, MI

Lansing's commercial buildings and their doors

Design Lansing describes the city's commercial areas by building type, and each type comes with its own set of doors to account for.

• Downtown core. Multi-story office, institutional and mixed-use buildings with shared side walls and no front setback. A lock plan here covers street doors, lobby doors, suite doors and stair access, and a building manager may hold a master key.
• Old Town, REO Town and East Michigan Avenue. Shared-wall, multi-story buildings built to the front property line. The storefront door is the obvious one; the rear door and any separate entry to the upper floors are the ones that get left off a rekey.
• Frandor and the Edgewood area. One-story, often high-bay buildings with flat roofs and large surface parking lots. Plan for a customer entrance plus rear service and receiving doors, which may not share a key.
• South Cedar Street and Michigan Avenue. Strip malls, stand-alone retail and office buildings. In a strip, count each space's front and rear doors, and ask the landlord whether a master key covers them.

Staff and tenant turnover

Keys leave with employees, contractors and former tenants, and nobody keeps a record of who copied what. Common steps:

• Rekey the affected cylinders when someone leaves without returning keys, or when a key goes missing.
• Set up a master key system so managers carry one key and staff open only their own areas.
• Use a restricted keyway, where copies are cut only with authorization, so unapproved copies are harder to get.
• When a new tenant takes over a storefront or a strip space, rekey every exterior door before opening, and ask the landlord which cylinders are on the building master.

Details for a commercial request

List the doors by type (glass storefront, steel service door, interior office door), the lock types if you know them, and whether a master key system is in place. Say who authorizes the work, owner or property manager, and when the building is open so the work can be scheduled around customers. Michigan Locksmith Pros takes service requests from homes, businesses and drivers in Lansing. The commercial locksmith page covers the service, lock rekeying explains key changes, and the Lansing page describes the city's districts.