{
  "source": "Fashion Week Venues",
  "title": "Retail and Office Space for Lease at Aberdeen Square",
  "description": "This is a remarkable opportunity to lease retail and office space on the first floor of Aberdeen Square. The space encompasses 411 square feet and features renovated interiors with glass walls and window coverings. It offers direct access to the mall from the Skytrain station and is conveniently located just steps from the parkade escalator and food court. \n\nThe building provides ample parking, easy transit, and pedestrian access. It includes amenities such as an air conditioning and heating system, a wheelchair-accessible washroom, and a 24-hour security alarm with surveillance camera systems. \n\nAberdeen Square consists of three levels of retail and office spaces with flexible layouts designed for maximum efficiency. This location benefits from high traffic and exposure, situated in the heart of Richmond and connected directly to the Aberdeen Station platform. Additional amenities include internet connectivity, a stock room, fitting rooms, garment racks, lighting, furniture, and sound and video equipment.",
  "idealBrandProfile": "This space fits a small to mid independent brand running a team of 3 to 15 people, one to six years of trading, with an existing DTC base or a regional wholesale account list and a genuine reason to hold ground in Metro Vancouver. At 38 sqm on the first floor of Aberdeen Square, the footprint supports one staffed retail floor with a stock room behind it, not a multi zone brand world. The minimum term of 336 days is the real qualifier here: this is a long run commitment, closer to a first physical store or a permanent Canadian showroom than a fashion week venue booked for a week. Brands at this stage typically find the transit connected location does the acquisition work that a standalone street unit would demand a marketing budget to replicate. Where we see mismatches is when a global house wants a downtown Vancouver address for prestige adjacency, or when a scaling label needs 150 sqm plus for seated buyer appointments and a press lounge running in parallel. Those briefs belong elsewhere. Aesthetic Fit Clean contemporary retail design works best here, because the glass walls and window coverings mean your merchandising is the storefront and the storefront is your advertising. The renovated interior reads as a neutral modern box, which suits jewellery, eyewear, accessories, small leather goods, skincare and colour cosmetics, streetwear, and contemporary womenswear that merchandises well on a limited number of garment racks. Beauty and accessory categories in particular benefit from the counters, fitting rooms and existing lighting already in place, and a considered fixture layer through branded store design will lift the unit well beyond standard mall tenancy. What does not work is any identity built on raw architecture: brutalist concrete, salvaged industrial, exposed timber warehouse, or a blackout immersive environment. The space cannot deliver ceiling rigging, structural intervention or heavy scenography, and a brand whose story depends on the building itself will be fighting the shell rather than using it. Best Use Cases First choice is a long running pop-up shop or permanent temporary retail space, because the fitting rooms, garment racks, counters, stock room and lighting are already installed and the Skytrain platform connection delivers passing traffic without a location campaign. Second is a fashion showroom for wholesale appointments across British Columbia, since the enclosed first floor position and elevator access give buyers a calm room away from the mall floor. Third is a market entry brand activation for an international label testing Canadian demand, where the Aberdeen Centre and Yaohan Centre catchment provides a defined and highly engaged customer base. Fourth is a product launch or collection preview, supported by the on site sound and video equipment. Fifth is a sample sale, where the stock room and counters handle volume and queue management, and we would recommend booking retail staffing ahead of high traffic weekends. Sixth is a content studio during closed hours, using the existing furniture and lighting for lookbook and social capture. Budget Signal This sits in the accessible mid tier for Metro Vancouver retail, materially below prime downtown Vancouver street frontage and below Richmond hotel event space on a comparable daily basis. What you get for that positioning is a fitted unit: internet, air conditioning and heating, CCTV and alarm, elevator, parking, kitchen, fitting rooms, racks, counters and furniture are all included, which removes the capital line that usually dominates a first store budget. Against a shared pop-up format or a mall kiosk you gain a private, lockable, brandable room with a stock room behind it. Against a co-working or event venue you gain a genuine retail licence and daily trading hours. In our experience the honest caution is the term length: with a 336 day minimum you should model this as annual occupancy cost rather than an event fee, and running the numbers through our budget calculator before enquiring will tell you quickly whether the volume supports it.",
  "neighbourhoodMood": "Beauty and skincare importers, collectible and toy brands, jewellery counters, bubble tea concepts and cross-border e-commerce operators are the commercial backbone of this stretch of Richmond, and they cluster inside the mall complexes rather than along open streets. Within a five minute walk of Aberdeen Square you have Aberdeen Centre, Yaohan Centre, President Plaza and Parker Place, each hosting dozens of small independent operators, optical and gold retailers, salons and agency style back offices running import and distribution for Asian market brands entering Canada. Hazelbridge Way and Cambie Road carry the supporting layer of bakeries, seafood restaurants and design and print suppliers, while Lipont Place a few blocks south functions as the area's exhibition and cultural venue for launches and gallery style presentations. In our experience placing brands in this neighbourhood, teams looking for a showroom space or pop-up shop here are usually targeting a Mandarin and Cantonese speaking consumer with genuine buying power, and if that audience is not the target it is worth continuing to browse all spaces elsewhere in Metro Vancouver first. Brands choose the Golden Village over Robson Street, Gastown, South Granville and Yaletown because the customer here already knows the reference points. A K-beauty, C-beauty, Japanese skincare or Asian streetwear label does not need to spend budget educating this audience, whereas the same brand on Robson competes with global flagships for attention at a considerably higher rate per square foot. Aberdeen Station on the Canada Line puts you roughly twenty minutes from Downtown Vancouver and eight minutes from YVR, which matters when overseas founders and buyers are flying in and staying at the Radisson directly adjacent or in the airport hotel cluster. What this area does not give you is the Vancouver fashion press circuit, which still gravitates to Mount Pleasant, Chinatown and Main Street for editorial coverage, and it does not deliver tourist footfall in the way Granville Island or Gastown do. Run the numbers through our ROI estimator before committing, because the trade here is audience precision over prestige address. Arrival is entirely interior, and that shapes everything about how a press day or buyer appointment feels here. The unit sits on the first floor of Aberdeen Square with direct connection from the Skytrain platform, steps from the parkade escalator and the food court, so visitors reach the door without ever standing on a pavement. Mornings are quiet and administrative, with office tenants and delivery traffic moving through. From late morning the rhythm shifts to families, students from nearby schools and a steady flow of commuters, peaking through lunch and again from four until seven. Glass walls give you clear sightlines from the concourse, and the fitting rooms, garment racks and stock room mean a temporary retail or sample sale format can open with minimal build. What we consistently hear from brand teams who activate here is that bilingual floor staff make or break conversion, which is where retail staffing earns its cost. Honest limitation: this is not the address for brands needing external street frontage, spontaneous tourist walk-ins or a Vancouver fashion week style press moment, and the long minimum lease term rules out short experimental runs.",
  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "Is Retail and Office Space for Lease at Aberdeen Square available for pop-up shops?",
      "answer": "Yes — Retail and Office Space for Lease at Aberdeen Square is a vetted pop-up ready space in Richmond, 38 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing."
    },
    {
      "question": "What is the day rate?",
      "answer": "CA$120 / 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": "Richmond",
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  "priceLabel": "CA$120 / day",
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    "Internet",
    "Air Conditioning",
    "Security System",
    "Stock Room",
    "Counters",
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    "Lighting",
    "Furniture",
    "Sound & Video Equipment",
    "Electricity",
    "Heating",
    "Parking",
    "Elevator",
    "Kitchen",
    "CCTV"
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