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  "source": "Fashion Week Venues",
  "title": "Prime Commercial Space on Queens Boulevard",
  "description": "Introducing a commercial storefront/office space located at 98-76 Queens Boulevard, Rego Park. Spanning 1,808 square feet, this property is configured as two units of 850 square feet and 958 square feet each, making it suitable for various applications such as medical, professional office, wellness, education, or service retail. The space benefits from excellent signage opportunities along Queens Boulevard, ensuring high visibility to the constant daily traffic in this bustling corridor. Key amenities include internet access, air conditioning, a security system, a stock room, counters, fitting rooms, a garment rack, lighting, furniture, sound and video equipment, electricity, heating, parking, an elevator, and a kitchen.",
  "idealBrandProfile": "This space fits small to mid-sized brands with a 5 to 25 person team, roughly 2 to 10 years of trading, and an established wholesale, diaspora or outer-borough customer base already ordering from them. At 1,808 sqft split into two units of 850 and 958 sqft, it gives you a selling floor and a separate back-of-house or appointment room without renting two addresses, and the existing counters, fitting rooms, stock room and garment rack mean a team of four or five can open in a day rather than building from an empty shell. The 5 to 10 day booking window suits brands running a defined retail moment, not an open-ended lease commitment. Where we see mismatches is when a luxury house or a global label wants a Manhattan press address for buyers flying in for market week, because a basement mall unit on Queens Boulevard will not carry that positioning. Brands needing 4,000 sqft plus for a full flagship experience should look wider across spaces in New York instead. Aesthetic Fit Accessible, product-led brands that merchandise densely and sell on volume work best here: contemporary apparel, denim, occasionwear and eveningwear, modest fashion, footwear, kidswear, jewellery, beauty and wellness lines. The interior is a clean, functional commercial fit-out with fitted lighting, counters and fitting rooms already in place, which suits a brand whose identity lives in the garments and the rail density rather than in the architecture. Brands at this stage typically find they can dress it with graphics, signage on the Queens Boulevard frontage and a strong window-level message. What does not work is the editorial minimalist or raw-industrial identity that depends on daylight, high ceilings and exposed structure, because this is a basement level unit inside a mall with no natural light and a finished ceiling. Concept-driven luxury requiring an unbranded gallery envelope should not shortlist this one. Best Use Cases First choice is a sample sale, since the stock room, garment rack, counters, fitting rooms and on-site parking cover the entire operational chain from delivery to till, and the 5 to 10 day window matches how these events are usually run. Second is a temporary retail space or pop-up shop for a DTC brand testing Queens demand, supported by Queens Boulevard signage and the surrounding daily traffic of grocery, cafe and service retail. Third is a wholesale appointment and showroom rental setup, using the smaller 850 sqft unit for buyer meetings while the larger unit stays merchandised as a collection preview. Fourth is a brand presentation or corporate event, with the kitchen, sound and video equipment, heating and air conditioning already installed. Fifth is a content studio or lookbook shoot, where the absence of daylight is an advantage for consistent controlled lighting across long shoot days. Sixth is a service-led retail experience such as a beauty, fitting or wellness activation, which sits naturally alongside the salons and clinics nearby. For any of the retail-facing formats we would advise budgeting for retail staffing familiar with the local customer base. Budget Signal This sits at the accessible end of the New York short-term commercial space market and well below anything comparable in Manhattan. For the same footprint in SoHo, Tribeca or the Meatpacking District you would be paying several multiples per day and still fitting out from bare walls. Hotel event spaces charge largely for the address and usually attach food and beverage minimums, co-working venues rarely offer fitting rooms, stock storage or a functioning retail counter, and shared pop-up formats give you a rail inside someone else's concept rather than a private 1,808 sqft space you fully control. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this price tier is a brand prioritising sell-through and margin over press coverage, particularly one already trading with a Queens or wider outer-borough audience. The honest trade-off is basement placement and no fashion week adjacency, so model the numbers against expected transaction volume using the ROI estimator before committing.",
  "neighbourhoodMood": "Bridal ateliers, occasionwear tailors, wellness operators and service retail businesses make up the working commercial fabric along this stretch of Queens Boulevard, and they are the reason the corridor stays occupied year round. Walk the blocks between 63rd Drive and 99th Street and you pass alteration workrooms, orthopaedic and footwear specialists such as Ortho Shoe Corp, optical shops, nail and beauty salons, and the Central Asian and Bukharian restaurant cluster around Marakand, Samarkand and Ganey Orly that anchors the area's social calendar. Behind the storefronts sit medical suites, accountancy practices, travel agencies and small import operations that supply the wider Queens retail network. Rego Center and the big box block toward 96th Street pull chain volume, while NetCost Market and the kosher bakeries pull the everyday shopper. Brands that succeed here are usually direct to consumer, community connected and appointment driven rather than editorial. Teams comparing borough options against Manhattan inventory often start by scanning spaces in New York before narrowing to a corridor like this one. Cost per square foot and genuine parking access are the two reasons brands land here instead of SoHo, the Lower East Side, Williamsburg or Long Island City. At roughly 1,808 square feet across two connected units for a daily rate that would not cover a fraction of a Crosby Street ground floor, the maths is straightforward for sample sales, multi day trunk shows, community facing product launches and training or education formats that need volume of space rather than volume of passers by. In our experience placing brands in outer borough corridors, the trade is honest and worth stating plainly. You gain square metres, storage, a stock room, fitting rooms, a kitchen and vehicle access. You lose the press and buyer walk by that Greene Street, Orchard Street or Wooster Street deliver during market weeks. Editors and international buyers cluster in Manhattan hotels and will not casually detour to Rego Park without a strong reason. Transport is workable rather than glamorous, with the M and R at 63rd Drive and LIRR connections through Forest Hills putting Midtown within about half an hour. Run the numbers against a Manhattan comparison in the budget calculator before committing either way. Arriving here feels functional and local rather than curated, which suits some formats and undermines others. Queens Boulevard at this point is a wide arterial with service roads, steady vehicle noise and a pedestrian rhythm driven by commuters heading to the subway between seven and nine in the morning, then a slower midday flow of residents, parents and older shoppers moving between the grocery, the bakeries and the salons. Afternoons pick up again around school hours and early evening dining. The space itself sits at basement level, which is the single most important qualifier for any brand considering it. Signage on the boulevard is genuinely visible, but the trading floor is not, so this works as a destination address where guests are invited, booked or directed, not as an impulse capture site. What we consistently hear from brand teams who activate in corridors like this is that the appointment model performs and the walk in model does not. Not suited to tourist retail, luxury press days requiring a prestige address, or brands needing street level visual dominance. For those briefs, our venue sourcing team would point you toward Manhattan or Brooklyn instead.",
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    {
      "question": "Is Prime Commercial Space on Queens Boulevard available for pop-up shops?",
      "answer": "Yes — Prime Commercial Space on Queens Boulevard is a vetted pop-up ready space in Queens, 168 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing."
    },
    {
      "question": "What is the day rate?",
      "answer": "$240 / day. Weekly and press-preview rates are quoted on request."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is staging, branding and fit-out permitted?",
      "answer": "Yes. Fashion Week Venues runs the full production build — signage, fixtures, lighting, sound, catering and staffing — subject to venue rules. Include your fit-out brief in the inquiry."
    },
    {
      "question": "What is included?",
      "answer": "Included on-site: Internet, Air Conditioning, Security System, Stock Room, Counters, Fitting Rooms, Garment Rack, Lighting."
    },
    {
      "question": "How far in advance should we book?",
      "answer": "Fashion week windows book 6–10 weeks out. Off-season activations can be secured in 2–3 weeks."
    }
  ],
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  "city": "Queens",
  "country": "US",
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    "Stock Room",
    "Counters",
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    "Garment Rack",
    "Lighting",
    "Furniture",
    "Sound & Video Equipment",
    "Electricity",
    "Heating",
    "Parking",
    "Elevator",
    "Kitchen"
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