Levitz Now Loves It at Levitz With Green Lighting!!
The “Sunshine Factory” has gotten a little bit brighter and greener thanks to the addition of over 5,000 MSi iPAR LED lighting fixtures. Tucson, Arizona based furniture retailer Sam Levitz recently replaced all of the halogen spotlights in four of its five locations with super efficient MSi LED lighting.
All of the showroom’s 90-watt halogen spotlights were replaced with 12-watt iPAR LED lights. The conversion was a simple matter of unscrewing the old lights and screwing in the new ones, but the results were immediate and dramatic. Unlike hot burning halogen lights, the extremely efficient LED lights produce very little heat and within hours of installation store employees had noticed a drop in the showroom’s temperature. Management was able to raise the air conditioner thermostat settings by four degrees, which will result in an estimated annual savings of $80,000 in cooling costs alone.
“Many retailers are a little concerned about the initial investment of converting to LED lighting,” said Daniel Stein, MSi Western Regional Sales Manager. “But if they take the time to run the numbers, and take into account that Tucson Electric Power will pay up to 50 percent of the project costs, they’ll see that switching over produces a great return on their investment.”
