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  "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.",
  "tldr": "96 sqm (1,032 sq ft) basement industrial unit for rent in Ap Lei Chau, Hong Kong, presenting as a blank canvas shell with controlled artificial lighting, a sea outlook from the building and stable year round temperature. Best For Permanent fashion showroom running wholesale appointments and buyer preview days, collection preview and press day base, content studio and product photography use, recurring sample sale space, and team offsite or design studio occupation. Every format listed here has been assessed against the floorplate by Fashion Week Venues. Standout Features Adjoining stock room with counters, garment racks and fitting rooms already installed, so a full seasonal range can be held on site without external storage. Also included: parking plus elevator access directly to basement level for rail and crate loading, sound and video equipment, complete kitchen suitable for crew catering, monitored security system with controlled entry, and air conditioning and heating throughout, making the unit move-in ready for appointment days. Location Ap Lei Chau (Lee Lok Street) bus stop is 1 minute on foot, Lee King Street 2 minutes, the Horizon Plaza stop 3 minutes, the A10 airport route at The Corniche 5 minutes, and Lei Tung and South Horizons MTR stations roughly 10 minutes, in the Southern District of Hong Kong Island where no postcode applies. The street is a working loading environment with vans and trolleys between roughly 08:00 and 11:00, then quiet from early afternoon, so setup crews get clear access and guests arriving by car or taxi find an orderly, industrial approach. Availability Minimum rental period is 365 days at a day rate of HK$533.32 (approximately EUR 59), so this is a 12 month commitment rather than a short-term commercial space. Allow 8 to 12 weeks lead time in Hong Kong, and note that units at this address typically book ahead of the September Centrestage window and the pre Lunar New Year sample sale period, when Horizon Plaza outlet traffic peaks at weekends. How to Book Send a brief with your dates, format and rail count and we reply within 24h with confirmed availability and a costed proposal, with no charge until confirmed. Permit paperwork, on site staffing and fit-out coordination are handled by our team on the brand's behalf. Request availability for this Ap Lei Chau showroom space now.",
  "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 buyers, outlet operators, furniture importers, sample store managers and lookbook photographers make up the daily working population of Ap Lei Chau, and that mix has held steady for the better part of two decades. Horizon Plaza on Lee Wing Street is the anchor, twenty five industrial floors carrying designer outlet stock, Lane Crawford clearance, antique dealers, Tree, Indigo Living and a shifting layer of independent label offices that took warehouse floorplates because Central and Causeway Bay rents never made sense for a stockholding business. Fan out onto Lee Lok Street and Lee King Street and you find garment stock rooms, e-commerce fulfilment units, small ateliers, ceramics and tattoo studios, and a real density of photographers who shoot here for the ceiling heights and the soft afternoon light off the Aberdeen Channel. Across the water in Wong Chuk Hang, the gallery cluster at One Island South pulls a separate creative crowd that overlaps at appointment level. Brands weighing this district against other Asian options should browse all spaces before assuming Hong Kong pricing works one way only. Cost per working square metre is the honest reason brands choose Ap Lei Chau over Central, Sheung Wan, Causeway Bay or Tsim Sha Tsui, and at this address the number is unusually low for Hong Kong Island. A 96 sqm floorplate here with a stock room, garment racks, fitting rooms, counters, parking and lift access costs a fraction of a comparable unit near Gough Street, PMQ or Tai Ping Shan Street, where you would pay a premium for frontage and then rent storage somewhere else. What you give up is prestige adjacency and passing traffic. There is no Landmark or Pacific Place halo, no tourist drift, no walk-by luxury shopper. Buyers and press arrive by appointment, generally by taxi or car, which is exactly why the parking and basement lift access matter more here than they would in Wan Chai. Transport is functional, with Lei Tung and South Horizons on the South Island Line roughly ten minutes on foot and the A10 airport bus at The Corniche stop five minutes away, which genuinely helps international buyers landing at Chek Lap Kok. In our experience placing brands in this neighbourhood, invite-only showroom rental, wholesale appointment days, sample sale space and content production all work. Brand theatre does not, and the city compare tool will usually push those briefs toward a different market. Arriving here feels industrial and orderly rather than atmospheric, and brand teams should brief their guests accordingly. The stretch outside is a live loading environment between roughly eight and eleven in the morning, with vans, trolleys and crates moving between units, then it quietens considerably from early afternoon, which is the window we would protect for buyer appointment slots and press walkthroughs. Weekends change the rhythm entirely as Horizon Plaza draws outlet shoppers and families from across the island, so a Saturday sample sale behaves nothing like a Tuesday press day in the same building. This particular unit sits at basement level, which removes street visibility altogether but delivers controlled lighting, stable temperature, low noise and a genuinely private appointment environment, while the building's sea aspect remains useful for content capture on upper floors. What we consistently hear from brand teams who activate here is that clients arrive sceptical of the postcode and leave impressed by the floorplate, particularly once a proper production and build layout is in place. 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 commercial model depends on street presence and impulse discovery.",
  "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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