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  "source": "Fashion Week Venues",
  "title": "Unique Rehabilitated Space in Central Bordeaux",
  "description": "This 300-square-meter commercial property is located at 132 Rue Fondaudège in Bordeaux. Originally an old alcohol bottling plant, the space has been rehabilitated and transformed to feature remarkable architecture and natural light provided by a vintage canopy. The venue is classified for use as a showroom, gallery, or for conferences, events, and meetings.\n\nThe interior is equipped with essential utilities including air conditioning, heating, and wireless internet. Functional amenities include a complete kitchen, a bar, furniture, and a water closet. The layout also provides a dedicated stock room and garment racks. For business operations, office equipment is available on-site. The property is designed with handicap accessibility and features an integrated lighting system. With a total area of 3,229 square feet, this unique space offers a versatile environment for various professional requirements in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France.",
  "tldr": "A 300 sqm (3,229 sq ft) rehabilitated former alcohol bottling plant for rent at 132 Rue Fondaudège in central Bordeaux, Chartrons and Fondaudège side of the 33000 district. Industrial architecture sits under a vintage glazed canopy that floods the main floor with daylight, giving a showroom space with structural character rather than white box neutrality. Best For Strongest fit for fashion showroom and buyer preview setups with wholesale appointments, followed by press day and collection preview events, multi day pop-up store and temporary retail runs, sample sale and trunk show weekends, and gallery style exhibition openings or cocktail receptions. Capacity is estimated at 310 guests standing, so launch parties and influencer events book here comfortably. Standout Features Vintage steel and glass canopy delivering full-width daylight across the open main floor, integrated lighting system already rigged for product and rail display, and garment racks plus a separate stock room for backstock and steaming. Also included in the rental: a complete kitchen suitable for catering setup, a fixed bar for receptions, furniture and office equipment on site, step-free handicap accessible entry, air conditioning, heating and wifi, making this a move-in ready brand activation space. Location Tram C at Place Paul Doumer is roughly 5 minutes on foot, Tram B and the Grand Théâtre interchange around 12 minutes, with Bordeaux Saint Jean station 20 minutes by tram in the 33000 postcode. Rue Fondaudège is a working retail street with Carrefour Market at 23 metres, independent fashion, cafés and a gallery within 200 metres, so crews load in against normal daytime traffic and guests arrive to an active, walkable frontage. Availability Day rate is on request and pricing is brief-based, set against activation format, build requirements and duration. Book by the day or by the week with a one day minimum; we advise six to eight weeks lead time in Bordeaux, and longer around Paris Fashion Week overspill in late February and late September plus the Bordeaux Fête le Vin and vendanges weeks, when spaces at this address typically book first. How to Book Submit a brief with your dates and format and Fashion Week Venues will confirm availability and hold the space, with a reply within 24h and no charge until confirmed. Permit paperwork, on site staffing and fit-out coordination are handled by our team on the brand's behalf, so enquire now to request availability and lock your Bordeaux dates.",
  "activationIdeas": "This works as a seasonal showroom because the garment racks and separate stock room are already in place, which is the single biggest cost line brands normally have to build from scratch. Across 300 sqm you can hang two to three full collections under the canopy daylight and still keep 60 sqm clear for a seating and lookbook zone. In practice the stock room handles steaming and backstock without pushing rails into the presentation floor. Buyer Appointments and Wholesale Previews Strong fit for back to back wholesale appointments, mainly because the on site office equipment and wifi mean order writing happens in the room rather than back at the hotel. Brands running buyer previews in spaces like this typically zone three appointment tables at 15 to 20 sqm each, with the bar area used as a holding space between slots. Daylight from the vintage canopy makes fabric and colour approval reliable without correcting lamps. Press Day / Media Preview A credible press day venue because the industrial architecture gives editors and stylists something to photograph beyond the product itself. Plan for 40 to 70 press and stylist visits across a single day, with the complete kitchen and bar covering catering in house so you avoid renting a mobile setup. The integrated lighting system lets you hold the same look from a 10am walkthrough into an evening press event without a relight. Sample Sale Well suited to a sample sale weekend because the stock room, racks and step free accessible entry solve queue management, replenishment and flow at the same time. At 300 sqm you can run roughly 12 to 16 double rails, a fitting zone and a till bank while keeping a clean circulation loop. Our team handles the checkout stack including point of sale and payments, which matters when you are processing several hundred transactions a day. Pop-Up Store / Temporary Retail This is a genuine temporary retail proposition rather than an event room, because Rue Fondaudège is a working retail street with a Carrefour Market 23 metres away and independent fashion within 200 metres. The 300 sqm floor comfortably supports a full pop-up concept with fixtures, fitting rooms and a hosted service area. Heavier fit out and shopfront work runs through production and build so the rehabilitated architecture stays intact. Product Launch and Cocktail Reception The occupancy estimate of 310 standing makes this a real launch venue for Bordeaux rather than a compromise, and the fixed bar plus complete kitchen remove the two hardest logistics of an evening reception. What makes this work for a product launch specifically is the canopy overhead, which reads dramatically once the integrated lighting takes over after dusk. Realistically it sits best at 150 to 220 guests if you also want a product display zone. Influencer Event Works well for creator events because the daylight canopy and raw rehabilitated structure give ten or more distinct shot backgrounds inside one room, so content does not repeat. Keep the guest list to 60 or 80 for a seated or hosted format rather than filling to capacity, since creators need floor space to shoot. Guest sourcing and talent briefing can be run through our influencer marketing team alongside the venue booking. Content Creation Day, E-commerce and Editorial Shoot This performs as a content studio because the vintage canopy delivers soft top light across the full width of the main floor, which is exactly what e-commerce shoot days need for volume. Crews of 8 to 15 work here without congestion, using the stock room as wardrobe and the office equipment for tethered review. Constraint worth planning around: daylight shifts through the day, so book grip and supplementary lighting for consistent editorial shoot output. Art Exhibition or Gallery Showing Classified for gallery use and it shows, with the integrated lighting system and long sightlines under the canopy giving you hanging and plinth options without temporary rigging. The 300 sqm floor takes 25 to 40 works depending on scale, and an opening night for 200 is straightforward with the bar in service. Galerie Neilag sits 130 metres away, so the immediate area already carries an art audience. Workshop, Masterclass and Networking Event Adequate to strong for hosted formats, given the space is already classified for conferences and meetings and arrives with furniture, heating, air conditioning and wifi in place. A creative workshop runs best at 20 to 40 participants around tables, a masterclass seated in rows takes 80 to 120, and networking with the bar open holds 150 comfortably. The complete kitchen means catering and refreshments need no external build.",
  "neighbourhoodMood": "Independent designers, small ateliers, wine and gastronomy brands with strong visual identities, and the region's growing pool of content studios are the businesses that actually populate this stretch of Bordeaux. Walk Rue Fondaudège from Place Paul Doumer up toward Barrière du Médoc and you pass Partance and La Petite Boutique doing genuine independent fashion retail, Galerie Neilag holding contemporary art shows a couple of minutes south, cycle workshops like Rétropédalage, concept-led beauty rooms such as Lone Wolf Concept and Atelier Ô72, and a run of owner-operated food addresses including Ressources, Mets Mots and Chocolaterie Lalère that regularly host brand dinners. The corridor connects directly into the Chartrons quarter, historically the négociant warehouse district and now where a large share of the city's photographers, set builders and freelance production people keep studios. In our experience placing brands in this part of Bordeaux, that adjacency matters more than the postcode: crew, props and catering all come from within a fifteen minute radius, which is not true of every French secondary city on browse all spaces. Brands choose Fondaudège over the saturated central zones because the square metre value and the calm are simply better for appointment-led formats. The obvious alternatives in Bordeaux are Rue Sainte-Catherine, which delivers enormous pedestrian volume but is high street retail territory with pricing and neighbours to match, the Triangle d'Or around Cours de l'Intendance and Place des Grands Hommes, which reads luxury but is expensive and heavily leased long term, and Darwin on the right bank, which has cultural credibility but sits away from the hotel cluster and reads more festival than fashion. Fondaudège sits between them: five minutes from Place des Quinconces and the Grand Théâtre by tram, walkable to La Maison Bord'eaux and the boutique hotels press and buyers actually stay in, and far enough off the tourist spine that a closed-door showroom rental does not fight for attention. What it does not offer is prestige address recognition or accidental luxury footfall. If your brief depends on that, the Triangle is the honest answer. If it depends on 300 sqm of daylight, a stock room, garment racks and a bar for the evening, this is the better trade, and our venue sourcing team will say so plainly. Arriving at 132 Rue Fondaudège feels like arriving at a working local street rather than a retail destination, which is exactly why it functions well as a press day location. Mornings are practical: deliveries, the Carrefour Market at the corner, parents on the school run, coffee moving through Sequoia and Ostuni, which makes load-in and crew calls straightforward without a barrier permit fight. From late morning through mid afternoon the pace is steady and local, with a genuinely mixed residential and commercial frontage, so buyer appointments run without noise or crowd interference. Evenings pick up around the restaurants, which suits cocktail receptions and exhibition openings well, and what we consistently hear from brand teams who activate here is that guests find the door easily because the canopy makes the building unmistakable once they are on the block. Honest limitation: this is not a street for spontaneous walk-in traffic or high-volume tourist retail. Passing footfall is neighbourhood grocery and errand traffic, not discovery shopping, so any pop-up shop here needs invitation, guestlist or paid reach behind it, which is worth modelling with the ROI estimator before you commit dates.",
  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "Is Unique Rehabilitated Space in Central Bordeaux available for pop-up shops?",
      "answer": "Yes — Unique Rehabilitated Space in Central Bordeaux is a vetted pop-up ready space in Bordeaux, 300 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing."
    },
    {
      "question": "What is the day rate?",
      "answer": "Rates are quoted on request — send your dates and use case through the inquiry card."
    },
    {
      "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: lighting, wc, handicap accessible, air conditioning, bar, complete kitchen, furniture, garment rack."
    },
    {
      "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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