Locksmith Hollywood
Full-Service Locksmith in Hollywood, FL
PRO Locksmith covers every corner of Hollywood—from the beach blocks along the Broadwalk to Hollywood Hills, Boulevard Heights, and the warehouse bays out by State Road 7. We are a mobile locksmith company, so a stocked service vehicle comes to your home, car, or business with everything needed to cut keys, program fobs, and install or repair locks on the spot. You get an upfront price before work begins and a technician who treats your door like his own. For a locksmith Hollywood FL residents and businesses call again and again, dial (954) 406-8266.
Emergency Lockouts—Home, Car, and Business
Our emergency locksmith Hollywood service opens locked doors without damage, day or night calls alike. Locked out of a Hollywood Lakes house? Keys sitting on the seat of a car parked near Young Circle? Standing outside your own storefront on Hollywood Boulevard with customers waiting? We handle all of it with professional entry tools that leave your lock and door unharmed. We also respond to break-ins: securing forced doors, replacing destroyed hardware, rekeying the property so lost or stolen keys are dead, and reinforcing frames and strike plates so the same entry point cannot be forced again as easily. If you just moved into a home or apartment and have no idea who else holds a key, a same-visit rekey solves that worry.
Residential Locksmith Services Across Hollywood’s Neighborhoods
Hollywood’s homes span a century of construction—boom-era masonry houses near downtown, postwar concrete block and stucco homes in Hollywood Hills and Driftwood, mid-century buildings converted to condominiums near the beach, and two-story walk-ups with open breezeways scattered across the city. We rekey and change locks on all of them, install and reinforce deadbolts, repair aging mortise locks in older doors, and mount smart locks for keyless entry. Sliding glass doors—standard equipment on Hollywood patios—get special attention: we repair rollers, latches, and handles and add secondary locks that stop the door from being lifted or pried. For landlords with multiple units, we can key buildings so management carries one key while each unit stays individually secure.
Automotive Locksmith and Car Key Replacement Hollywood
Our automotive service brings the key shop to you anywhere in Hollywood—Federal Highway, Johnson Street, the beach garages, or your own driveway. We cut and program car keys on site, including transponder keys and push-button proximity fobs, and we make keys from scratch when every copy is lost. Snapped a key in the door or ignition? Broken key extraction removes the fragment cleanly and a new key gets cut before we leave. We also repair and replace ignitions that stick, grind, or will not turn, which often saves the cost of a dealership tow. Most makes and models are covered, from work trucks to imports.
Commercial Locksmith Hollywood Businesses Trust
From downtown storefronts with narrow-stile aluminum doors to the flex and warehouse bays along the rail corridor near Dixie Highway, commercial clients keep us busy across Hollywood. We rekey businesses after employee turnover, build master key systems for offices and multi-tenant buildings, install and repair panic bars and exit devices, and service door closers, hinges, and commercial deadbolts and mortise locks. Restaurants around Young Circle and along Harrison Street call us for back-door security and key control; medical offices near Memorial Regional Hospital call for restricted keys that cannot be copied at a kiosk. Whatever the business, we match the hardware to the way the door actually gets used.
Lock Repair and Small Jobs Welcome
A lock does not have to be broken to need attention. We adjust latches and strikes on doors that swelled in the humidity, free up stiff cylinders, replace worn keys before they snap, service gate and padlock hardware, and cut accurate duplicates on the truck. These small visits are quick, priced fairly, and often prevent an emergency call later. If a door or lock in your home or business is not working the way it should, it is worth a phone call.
We also open, repair, and install safes for homes and businesses across Hollywood—forgotten codes, lost safe keys, and stiff bolt work are all routine calls for our technicians. For residents of the beachside condominium buildings, one honest note: your building entry fob and common-area credentials are issued by the association or management office, not by a locksmith, but everything on your own unit door—locks, deadbolts, rekeys, and repairs—is exactly what we do, and we do it with hardware that stands up to salt air.
Serving All of Hollywood and Its Neighbors
We work throughout the city—Hollywood Lakes, Hollywood Hills, Boulevard Heights, Driftwood, Emerald Hills, the beach blocks, and the corridors along Federal Highway, Dixie Highway, and State Road 7, covering zip codes from 33019 to 33025. Our technicians also serve the surrounding cities every day, including Hallandale Beach just south and Dania Beach just north, so a nearby technician is rarely far from you.
Why PRO Locksmith
PRO Locksmith is a licensed and insured local company based in Broward County—Hollywood is home turf, not the edge of a service map. We quote upfront, arrive equipped, and finish jobs in one visit whenever the hardware allows. Our technicians are background-checked professionals who respect your property and explain your options in plain language before you spend a dime of your budget. Keep our number in your phone: (954) 406-8266. When a lock, key, or door problem shows up in Hollywood, we are the call that solves it.
Here is how a typical call goes: you describe the problem and your location, the dispatcher quotes the price honestly, and a technician heads out in a marked, stocked vehicle. On arrival he confirms the quote, does the work, and hands you working keys and a tested lock before he leaves. That is the whole process—simple, transparent, and the reason so much of our Hollywood work comes from repeat customers and their neighbors.
Locksmith Near Me in Hollywood
Most people typing locksmith near me in Hollywood have already had a bad day. The last thing that helps is a quote that changes once someone is standing at the door. We give the number on the phone and that is the number you pay.
Hollywood is inside our working area, not an outer edge we reluctantly drive to. Call (954) 406-8266 and tell us what happened.
Hollywood, Through a Locksmith’s Eyes
Hollywood was laid out in the early 1920s by Joseph Young around a circle and a broad boulevard running from the ocean to the western edge of town, and that plan is still the reason the doors here are the way they are. The boom-era commercial buildings on Hollywood Boulevard between Young Circle and 21st Avenue are masonry vernacular with Mediterranean Revival and Art Moderne examples mixed in, most of them built between the founding of the city and the years just after the Second World War. Openings from that period were sized before modern hardware existed. Original wood doors are often thicker or thinner than the standard prep a current mortise lock expects, hinge locations rarely match a modern template, and the transom above the door is frequently part of the same frame, so a replacement leaf is not the simple swap it looks like from the sidewalk.
What is south and west of downtown is a different problem entirely. The postwar neighborhoods — Driftwood, Boulevard Heights, parts of Hollywood Hills and the blocks west toward State Road 7 — are concrete block and stucco built in the fifties and sixties, with steel or wood bucks cast into the block. On those houses the lock is usually fine and the strike anchorage is not, because a strike screwed into a buck that has flexed for decades no longer sits square to the bolt.
Downtown storefronts and the preservation review
Because the Hollywood Boulevard business district and the Historic Hollywood Lakes Section are designated, exterior changes in those areas go through the city’s Historic Preservation Board rather than straight to permit. That constrains the approach in a useful way. Rather than replacing a contributing door, the sensible route is to keep the original leaf and work with hardware that reads as period-appropriate and reversible: a surface-mounted rim exit device instead of a concealed vertical rod assembly that requires routing the door edge, a mortise cylinder with the correct collar so the escutcheon still sits flat, through-bolted pulls that spread load instead of new screw holes in old stiles. Restoring the swing and adding a closer with adjustable backcheck often solves a “the lock is broken” complaint without touching the lock at all, because what was actually failing was a door dropping onto its latch.
Harrison Street and the side streets off Young Circle run to smaller tenant bays with aluminum narrow-stile fronts added over the years. Those take hookbolt deadlocks, narrow-stile exit devices, and pivots that wear; a continuous hinge is the usual answer when the leaf has begun to sag against the threshold. Restaurants and bars around the ArtsPark end of the boulevard have occupancy loads that require panic hardware on the way out, which means the outside is controlled by night latch trim or cylinder dogging rather than by anything that could impede egress.
The Broadwalk, the beach blocks and salt in the cylinder
The Broadwalk and the streets behind it hold a dense band of mid-century low-rise buildings, a good number of them former motels converted to condominium or rental use. They sit close enough to the water that hardware is in constant salt spray, and the symptoms are consistent: pin chambers binding, plugs that turn stiffly and then not at all, lever return springs seizing under aluminum oxide, strike screws corroding inside a frame that still looks sound. Where an opening is genuinely exposed, stainless fasteners and components, isolation between dissimilar metals, and a keyway cover make the difference between an annual service call and a replacement.
The conversion history creates a second issue. Buildings that started as motels have unit doors opening directly onto exterior walkways, which means every guest-room door became a dwelling entry without necessarily getting dwelling-grade hardware. Deadbolts with a full one-inch throw, reinforced strikes anchored past the jamb, and a rekeying plan the association can actually maintain are the practical upgrades. Common doors — laundry, storage, pool gate, electrical room — are association property, and a restricted keyway is what keeps their keys from spreading unrecorded through a building with high turnover.
Garden apartments and small multifamily
Much of the housing between Federal Highway and Dixie, and in the older blocks north of Hollywood Boulevard, is two-story walk-up apartments from the fifties and sixties with open breezeways and exterior stairs. These buildings are managed in small portfolios, and the recurring headache is key control across a dozen addresses. Small-format interchangeable cores make turnover manageable, because a core can be rotated at move-out without pulling the lockset, and a properly structured master key system lets a maintenance tech carry one key instead of a ring that opens nothing predictably. Where a building has added a controlled entry to a breezeway or a laundry room, an electric strike in a hollow metal frame is generally the least destructive install, with the fail-safe or fail-secure decision driven by whether the door sits on a required egress path.
Commercial corridors: Federal, Dixie and State Road 7
The working commercial spine of the city runs north and south. Federal Highway carries retail and professional offices, and the blocks around Johnson Street near Memorial Regional Hospital carry medical suites; Dixie Highway and the streets along the rail corridor carry older light industrial and service bays; State Road 7 on the west side runs to strip retail and auto trades. Medical and professional suites drive most of the access control work — card readers on suite entries set fail-secure, request-to-exit sensors, door position switches so the system can distinguish a forced door from a normal one, and ANSI/BHMA Grade 1 lever locks on the doors that get the traffic. Accessibility comes up constantly in these build-outs, since the standards require operating hardware usable without tight grasping, pinching or twisting and cap interior door opening force at five pounds, which usually means lever trim and a closer that has actually been adjusted rather than installed and forgotten.
The warehouse and flex bays along the rail corridor bring their own list: hollow metal frames rusted through at the base where the slab holds water, roll-up doors, man doors that need weld-in strike reinforcement rather than another screw into failed steel, and rim exit devices on the doors that people actually leave through.
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Locksmith Services Hollywood
- Emergency Car Lockout
- Dealer Services
- Key Extraction
- Residential Lock Repair
- Emergency Lockout Service
- Install Lock
- Lost Car Key
- Car Key Replacement
- Emergency Lockout
- Lock Installation
- Replace Lock
- Locks Rekeying
- Ignition Repair
- Duplicate Car Key
- Rekey Locks
- Lock Replacement
- Master Lock Rekey
- Access Control Systems
Locksmith Price Guide
Every job is quoted upfront before any work starts — the exact price depends on your lock, your vehicle and the situation. Our current prices for every service are kept up to date on one page.
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Fire doors, condos and cars
Any building here with more than a couple of stories has rated openings — stair doors, corridor doors, trash rooms — and those are governed by rules that do not bend. A fire-rated door has to latch under its own closer, cannot be held open by anything that is not tied to the alarm, and cannot take field modifications that are not permitted by its listing. That rules out drilling a rated leaf for a convenience lock and rules out a maglock that does not release on alarm. On the residential side, the routine work is rekeying after a purchase, replacing hardware corroded past service, and fitting electronic deadbolts where the door thickness and backset allow it. Automotive work runs alongside it: transponder and proximity keys cut to the vehicle and programmed to the immobilizer, plus lost-key situations where nothing original survives.
Get in touch
PRO Locksmith is licensed and insured and provides commercial, residential and automotive locksmith service in Hollywood, along with the rest of Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. Call (954) 406-8266.
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Zip Codes We Cover in Hollywood
33019, 33020, 33021, 33023, 33024, 33025