{
  "source": "Fashion Week Venues",
  "title": "Versatile Commercial Space for Lease in SOHO, Central",
  "description": "This corner shop in the vibrant SOHO area of Central offers a strategic location. The space includes 829 square feet on the Upper Ground Floor and 1,650 square feet on the Lower Ground Floor, providing ample area for various business endeavors. \n\nThe premises is equipped with a range of essential amenities, including internet access, air conditioning, a security system, and a stock room. Additional features include counters, fitting rooms, garment racks, and lighting. For convenience, the venue also comes with furniture, sound and video equipment, electricity, heating, parking availability, and an elevator. A kitchen area further enhances the functionality of this commercial space, making it suitable for a variety of uses.",
  "tldr": "A 230 sqm (2,470 sq ft) corner retail unit for rent on Wellington Street in SoHo, Central, Hong Kong, split across 829 sq ft at upper ground level and 1,650 sq ft below. The character is street-facing shopfront above with a deep, low-lit basement volume underneath, giving two distinct atmospheres in one rental. Best For Strongest fit for a temporary retail pop-up shop with buyer previews running downstairs, followed by fashion showroom and wholesale appointment use, seasonal sample sale space, press day venue with seated collection preview, and content studio or brand shoot location bookings. The two-level split lets brands run public selling above and private appointments below on the same day rate. Standout Features Corner shopfront with two street elevations for double-sided window merchandising, plus a 1,650 sq ft lower ground floor that doubles capacity without a second rental. Move-in ready retail fit-out is already installed including counters, fitting rooms, garment racks and adjustable lighting, alongside a stock room, full kitchen for catering setup, sound and video equipment, lift access, parking, air conditioning and a monitored security system. Location Central MTR (Exit D2) is roughly a 6 minute walk and the Central Mid-Levels Escalator sits about 2 minutes away, with Hong Kong Station around 10 minutes on foot. The immediate stretch of SoHo is dense F&B and independent retail, with Lan Fong Yuen, Tai Cheong Bakery and Quinary within 100 metres, so guests arrive on a busy pedestrian street and crews should book kerbside loading windows early. Availability Day rate is HK$10,000 (approximately EUR 1,111) with the landlord's standard term set at 365 days, though short-term rental and event-only windows are negotiated case by case through our team. Hong Kong brand teams should allow 8 to 12 weeks lead time, and demand tightens sharply around Centrestage in September and the March and October trade fair weeks, so request availability early for those dates. How to Book Enquire with your dates, activation format and headcount and we reply within 24h with confirmed availability and brief-based pricing, with no charge until confirmed. Fashion Week Venues handles permit paperwork, licensing liaison, staffing and fit-out coordination on the brand's behalf, so request availability now to hold your SoHo window.",
  "neighbourhoodMood": "Independent labels, tattoo studios, natural wine importers, streetwear resellers and small creative agencies are the working tenants of SoHo, and they occupy the narrow shophouse floors along Wellington Street, Elgin Street, Staunton Street and Peel Street in numbers that surprise brands arriving from overseas. Walk up the Mid-Levels Escalator on a Tuesday morning and you pass photographers loading gear, a jewellery atelier operating out of a first floor unit, GOD homeware on Hollywood Road holding the design retail line, and Bookazine feeding the local art and publishing crowd. Hong Kong's fashion district logic is split: the trade fair machinery sits in Wan Chai, the flagship retail sits in Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui, and the creative labour sits here. In our experience placing brands in this neighbourhood, SoHo functions as the city's most credible creative quarter for smaller-format work, which is why so much showroom rental, sample sale and content studio activity clusters in these blocks rather than in a mall podium. If you are weighing this address against alternatives, it is worth reviewing other spaces in Hong Kong at the same time. Brands choose SoHo over Causeway Bay, Tsim Sha Tsui and the Landmark and IFC mall circuit because the rate per square metre buys a full two-level unit with a street door rather than a small mall bay with landlord-controlled hours and visual merchandising rules. At HK$10,000 per day for 230 sqm across two floors, this space costs a fraction of what a comparable Central podium unit commands, and you keep control of the shopfront, the music and the guest list. The tradeoff is real: footfall here is F&B-led and evening-weighted, so you are not capturing the coach-party and cross-border shopper volume that Canton Road or Causeway Bay delivers. What you gain instead is a genuine fit for invite-only formats, a buyer appointment venue that feels like a working showroom rather than a retail concession, and a Central postcode that press and buyers reach in minutes from the Landmark Mandarin, The Upper House and the Central hotel cluster. Central MTR and Hong Kong Station keep international visitors and Airport Express arrivals within a short walk. For brands modelling this against a Wan Chai fair booth or a mall pop-up, our city compare tool makes the cost logic easier to argue internally. Arriving at this corner on Wellington Street means stepping into a queue culture, because Lan Fong Yuen and Tai Cheong Bakery sit within fifteen metres and both draw lines from mid-morning onward. Mornings are deliveries, coffee runs to Holistic Coffee and Frenchies, and quiet enough that a press day from 10am reads calm and controlled. From around 12.30 the lunch surge hits hard and the pavement narrows to single file, then it eases before the Elgin Street and Peel Street bar crowd builds from 6pm. The corner geometry gives you two window elevations, which is unusually good visibility for SoHo, and the lower ground floor stays acoustically separate for seated previews or filming while the upper level trades. What we consistently hear from brand teams who activate here is that the private downstairs volume is the reason they book, not the shopfront. Honest limitation: this is not a location for high-volume tourist retail or spontaneous walk-in conversion, because most of the people passing are committed to a restaurant table, not browsing. Sloped streets and tight kerbside also mean loading windows need booking, which our production and build team handles as standard.",
  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "Is Versatile Commercial Space for Lease in SOHO, Central available for pop-up shops?",
      "answer": "Yes — Versatile Commercial Space for Lease in SOHO, Central is a vetted pop-up ready space in Hong Kong, 230 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing."
    },
    {
      "question": "What is the day rate?",
      "answer": "HK$10,000 / 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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  "priceLabel": "HK$10,000 / day",
  "priceEur": 1100,
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