Boot Barn Retail Store Electrical and Lighting Fit-Out

Retail tenant improvements live or die on the schedule. A store has an opening date, the fixture install and merchandising crews are booked behind you, and everything electrical has to be roughed, trimmed, tested and out of the way before they arrive. Power Professor took on the full electrical scope for this 15,470 sq ft Boot Barn — 13,162 square feet of sales floor plus stockroom, storage, back hall and manager's office — and delivered it to the engineered drawings and the store's fixture plan.

The existing 277/480-volt, three-phase, four-wire service, meter, CT cabinet and power wall stayed; almost everything downstream of them did not. The previous tenant's circuits and lighting controls were disconnected and removed rather than abandoned in place, the fire alarm devices were protected and kept live, and the existing 400-amp distribution and 75 kVA 480-to-120/208-volt transformer were verified for condition and capacity before anything new was landed on them. The finished store runs at roughly 193 amps of calculated demand at 480 volts across the lighting, receptacle, HVAC and equipment panels.

The lighting package is the visible half of the job: continuous track runs the length of the sales floor, accent and display heads, back-of-house and stockroom fixtures, and emergency and night lighting that stays energized around the clock on unswitched circuits. Every run was laid out with a laser to the reflected ceiling plan before a single hanger went in, fed from four-inch square junction boxes at the deck and dropped in MC cable and EMT to the fixtures. Controls were built the way the energy code and the store's operating hours require: general and display lighting contactors on a timeclock, occupancy sensors and power packs on the egress circuits for non-business hours, a spring-wound bypass timer for after-hours work, and controlled receptacles switched with the lighting.

The other half is the part customers never see. Dedicated circuits for the cashwrap — POS, receipt printers and general power — plus the boot finder kiosk in a column, hat steamer, microwave, manager's and stockroom desks, IT cabinet and stockroom printer, several of them fed by power poles dropped from the structure to freestanding fixtures. Six plenum-rated Cat 6 runs in continuous conduit from the phone board to the cashwrap counter, a plywood telephone backboard, and conduit with pull strings to the IT cabinet. A loss-prevention rough-in for the EAS system: a dedicated isolated-ground quadplex above the entry on a locked-on, unswitched 24-hour breaker, an enclosure at 13 feet, and conduit runs to each door mullion for the vendor's antennas. Junction boxes, conduit and pull strings for the security and CCTV vendor, a low-voltage chime and buzzer system between the back door and the cashwrap, and a door alarm contact set into the head of the rear door frame.

Mechanical and site work rounded it out: power and disconnects for three 480-volt rooftop units with gas heat, service receptacles at the equipment per code, an EMS junction box for the energy management vendor, weatherproof GFCI receptacles, and in-floor conduit core drilled and trenched under landlord approval and patched back to match the surrounding slab. Coordination ran in every direction — landlord and mall management, the general contractor, the tenant's project manager, the fixture installer, and the EAS, security and network vendors — and the work was staged so each trade could take the floor when it needed it.