Clark’s Market - Denver, CO
Clark's Markets — Lowry, Denver, CO
Clark's Market has built its brand around a set of values that don't waver across locations: environmental stewardship, creating extraordinary experiences, and exceeding guest expectations. For more than four decades those values were expressed in resort and mountain communities across Colorado. In August 2023, Clark's opened its first Denver location in the redeveloped historic Lowry neighborhood, their most ambitious store yet, and the continuation of a lighting partnership that goes back to the founding of JLH Lighting.
Clark's has been a JLH Lighting client since day one, and the relationship between Nick Jordan and the Clark's team stretches back even further, to 2010. That history matters on a project like this. When you've worked with a brand across multiple stores over many years, you understand not just what their lighting needs to do technically, but what it needs to feel like. That shared understanding informed every decision on the Lowry store.
At approximately 30,000 square feet, the Lowry location carries a subtle aircraft hangar theme that runs through its architecture and design. Our scope covered the full interior lighting package, with the goal of creating an upscale atmosphere worthy of the Clark's name while ensuring every product in the store looked exceptional. Luxco fixtures, purpose-built for grocery and food retail applications, anchor the package alongside carefully selected fixtures from several additional manufacturers, each chosen for the right application.
One of the more significant design challenges on this project was meeting a very tight watts per square foot power density requirement. Rather than treating that as a constraint, we used it as an opportunity: by engineering the lighting package to meet the threshold, we were able to remove skylights from the plans entirely. Skylights introduce uncontrolled daylight that shifts throughout the day, making it nearly impossible to maintain a consistent look and feel in the store. With the lighting fully in our hands, we could design an environment where the atmosphere stays exactly as intended from open to close, and where the products always look their best.
Testimonial
“JLH Lighting has been a fantastic partner for Clark’s Markets. Nick anticipates what we are looking for and delivers the project on time and on budget. We have seen up to a 10% year over year increase in the lighting remodels that we’ve completed. Of all the components of a remodel, lighting is one of the most important. With JLH Lighting, it is a one stop solution that gets done the right way the first time.”
Tom Clark
Clark’s Markets
