Commercial / Master Key Systems in Fort Lauderdale, FL

A master key system lets an owner or manager hold one key that opens every door on a property while individual staff carry keys limited to their own areas: useful for a downtown office building with multiple tenants and shared common areas, or for a mixed-use building near the beach with retail on the ground floor and offices above. Property managers overseeing several floors of tenants often want a layered system: a master for building staff, sub-masters for individual floors, and unique keys for each tenant space. We also assist with rekeying an entire tenant space when a downtown lease turns over, so the outgoing tenant's keys no longer work.

Smaller commercial spaces in Fort Lauderdale's neighborhood strips, closer to the scale of a single storefront or restaurant, are more often set up with a simpler keyed-alike system, or a smaller master hierarchy covering just a front door, a storage area, and an office, without the added complexity a large downtown building requires. A single-location restaurant or boutique near a neighborhood corridor typically only needs two or three key levels to cover the whole property comfortably.

We draw hardware for these systems from commercial-grade manufacturers, including Von Duprin exit devices, LCN and Norton door closers, and Schlage, Sargent, or Medeco cylinders for higher-security applications: selected based on the traffic and security level of the specific building, whether that's a downtown high-rise lobby or a single-story storefront. We also service existing commercial hardware that's already installed, not just new systems, since older buildings downtown often have a mix of legacy hardware that needs occasional adjustment or replacement parts.

The distance between a small neighborhood storefront and a downtown office tower is exactly the range Fort Lauderdale's commercial key systems have to cover.