{
  "source": "Fashion Week Venues",
  "title": "Versatile Clean Space Ideal for Office or Kitchen Use",
  "metaTitle": "Showroom Hong Kong | 96 sqm Ap Lei Chau Space for Hire",
  "description": "This clean and well-maintained unit is suitable for various purposes, including use as a storage room, office, or kitchen. The space serves as a blank canvas, allowing you to tailor the design to meet your specific needs. It is well lit and features a striking view of the sea, enhancing the overall environment. Key amenities include internet access, air conditioning, a security system, fitting rooms, counters, garment racks, and sound and video equipment. Additional features comprise a stock room, furniture, electricity, heating, and access to parking and an elevator.",
  "metaDescription": "Showroom for hire in Hong Kong. 96 sqm blank canvas in Ap Lei Chau with sea views, fitting rooms and garment racks. Request availability, reply within 24h.",
  "idealBrandProfile": "This space fits a brand with a 3 to 15 person team, 2 to 8 years of trading, and an existing wholesale, e-commerce or regional distribution base in Asia that needs a permanent Hong Kong operating hub rather than a short campaign venue. The 365 day minimum lease is the single most important qualifier on this listing. At 96 sqm across a basement industrial floor in Ap Lei Chau, with a stock room, counters, garment racks, fitting rooms, parking and elevator access, it works as a combined fashion showroom, sample store and back of house for a label running buyer appointments and fulfilment from one address. Where we see mismatches is when a brand wants a two week fashion week venue or a single press day and enquires here anyway. Global houses needing 300 sqm of flagship presentation floor and street level footfall will find it undersized and wrongly positioned, and brands looking for a short-term commercial space should browse all spaces with flexible lease terms instead. Aesthetic Fit A pared back, utilitarian design language works best here: raw industrial shell, white walls, track lighting, rolling rails and modular counters. The unit is described as a blank canvas and behaves like one, which suits contemporary ready to wear, denim and workwear, technical outerwear, streetwear, accessories, footwear and homeware or lifestyle lines that read well against a functional backdrop. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this space is a brand comfortable with a working studio look rather than a polished retail interior. What does not work is heritage luxury, fine jewellery or couture requiring a marble and millwork environment, or any brand whose identity depends on daylight, tall ceilings and a street presence. A basement industrial floor cannot deliver that atmosphere without a full fit out, and if that is the direction you want, budget for branded store design from the outset rather than treating it as a finishing touch. Best Use Cases First choice is a permanent fashion showroom for wholesale appointments, since the fitting rooms, garment racks, counters and adjoining stock room let you hold full seasonal ranges and run buyer meetings without external storage. Second choice is a collection preview and press day base, with air conditioning, sound and video equipment, secure entry and parking making seated appointment days straightforward. Third choice is a content studio and product photography room, given controllable lighting, a neutral shell and a kitchen for crew days. Fourth choice is a recurring sample sale space, helped by lift access, loading convenience and proximity to the Horizon Plaza outlet traffic that already brings shoppers to Ap Lei Chau. Fifth choice is a team offsite, design studio or regional office, which the layout and heating, internet and furniture package support directly. Least suited is a walk-in pop-up shop relying on passing footfall, because a basement unit on this island requires you to drive the audience yourself. Budget Signal This sits at the low end of the Hong Kong market and is priced well below anything comparable in Central, Causeway Bay or Sheung Wan on a per square metre basis. Brands at this stage typically find that the trade is straightforward: you give up street frontage and prestige postcode in exchange for genuine working square metres, storage, parking and a fully amenitied shell on a long lease. Against prime commercial retail you are paying a fraction. Against hotel event rooms and co-working meeting suites you are paying less per day while gaining permanent tenure and the ability to leave stock, rails and fixtures in place. Against a shared pop-up format you lose the built-in audience but gain full control of the space year round. Model the annual commitment rather than the day rate with our budget calculator before you enquire, because the 12 month floor is what determines whether this is good value for your brand.",
  "neighbourhoodMood": "Wholesale showroom operators, outlet buyers, furniture importers and photo studio crews are the working population of Ap Lei Chau, and they have been for two decades. The gravitational centre is Horizon Plaza on Lee Wing Street, twenty five floors of designer outlet floors, Lane Crawford clearance space, antique dealers, Tree, Indigo Living and a rotating cast of independent brand offices that took industrial floorplates because Central rents made no sense for them. Around it, the Lee Lok Street and Lee King Street blocks hold garment stock rooms, e-commerce fulfilment operations, small ateliers, tattoo and ceramics studios, and a surprising density of photographers who shoot lookbooks here precisely because the ceilings are high and the light off the Aberdeen Channel is soft in the afternoon. In our experience placing brands in this neighbourhood, the people who succeed here are the ones who already understand it as a working district rather than a destination. Anyone comparing this against other Asian markets should look at how it sits alongside spaces in Tokyo for cost per square metre on sample storage and showroom rental. Value per square metre is the honest headline reason brands choose Ap Lei Chau over Central, Sheung Wan, Causeway Bay or the PMQ and Tai Ping Shan Street cluster. A 96 sqm floorplate here costs a fraction of an equivalent unit on Gough Street or Hollywood Road, and you get a stock room, garment racks, fitting rooms, counters and parking included rather than bolted on at extra cost. What you trade away is spontaneity. There is no passing luxury shopper, no Star Ferry tourist drift, no Landmark or Pacific Place adjacency to borrow prestige from. Buyers and press will come here, but only by appointment and usually by car or taxi, which is why the parking and elevator access matter more than they would in Wan Chai. Transport is functional rather than glamorous, with Lei Tung and South Horizons MTR stations both within a ten minute walk and multiple bus routes at the door including the A10 airport line, which genuinely helps when international buyers land at Chek Lap Kok. If your format is invite-only showroom, sample sale, wholesale appointment or content production, the maths works. If it is brand theatre, it does not, and we would route you to a different address through our venue sourcing team. Arriving here feels industrial and orderly rather than atmospheric, and brand teams should set expectations accordingly. The street outside is a working loading environment in the morning, with delivery vans, trolleys and stock movement between roughly eight and eleven, then it settles considerably by early afternoon. Weekend footfall shifts entirely, with Horizon Plaza pulling families and outlet shoppers from across Hong Kong Island, so a Saturday sample sale in this pocket behaves very differently to a Tuesday press day. This particular unit sits at basement level, which removes street visibility completely but gives you controlled light, stable temperature and a genuinely quiet appointment environment, and the sea view aspect from the building is a real asset for content capture. What we consistently hear from brand teams who activate here is that clients arrive slightly sceptical and leave impressed by the space itself. Be clear on the limitation: this is not a neighbourhood for walk-in temporary retail, tourist-facing pop-up shop formats or any brand whose success depends on street presence and impulse discovery. Model the numbers honestly with our ROI estimator before committing.",
  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "Is Versatile Clean Space Ideal for Office or Kitchen Use available for pop-up shops?",
      "answer": "Yes — Versatile Clean Space Ideal for Office or Kitchen Use is a vetted pop-up ready space in Hong Kong, 96 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing."
    },
    {
      "question": "What is the day rate?",
      "answer": "HK$533 / 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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    "Furniture",
    "Sound & Video Equipment",
    "Electricity",
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