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  "source": "Fashion Week Venues",
  "title": "Versatile Showroom and Creative Space Available",
  "description": "This bright and adaptable space features an industrial yet cozy atmosphere, enhanced by ample natural light. It includes a central kitchen that anchors the layout, a bright meeting room, and open areas suitable for use as a photo studio or a comfortable workspace. \n\nAmenities include fast Wi-Fi, a meeting room, a kitchen, and lounge areas. Located near Beaubien and Rosemont metro stations, BIXI bike stations, bike paths, and local services, this versatile space is ideal for showrooms, photo shoots, meetings, and special projects, whether for short or long-term use. Additional shared facilities, including other photo studios within the building, a loading dock, and large windows overlooking Bellechasse Street, further enhance its functionality.",
  "activationIdeas": "This works well as a seasonal showroom because the garment racks, fitting rooms and stock room are already in place, so a collection can be hung and merchandised on day one. Across 158 sqm you can hold roughly 80 to 120 looks on rail with clear circulation, using the bright meeting room for one-to-one presentation and the lounge areas as a waiting zone. Brands extending a showroom rental across a full market week often layer in additional rail and seating through furniture rental rather than building anything permanent. Buyer Appointments and Wholesale Preview Strong fit for back to back buyer appointments, mainly because the enclosed meeting room lets you run a private collection preview while the open floor stays set as the main rail. In practice the central kitchen handles coffee and light catering without bringing in a hospitality supplier, which matters when you are running six to ten wholesale appointments a day. Comfortable for two or three buyers plus sales agent per session, not for large group previews. Sample Sale Operationally this space is well equipped for a sample sale, with counters, fitting rooms, a stock room and a loading dock plus elevator for pallet-in, pallet-out delivery. The honest constraint is that the unit sits at basement level on Bellechasse Street, so walk-in traffic will be minimal and the sale needs to be driven by your own mailing list and social channels. Plan queue management outside the building and set up card-only checkout with point of sale and payments at the counters. Press Day and Media Preview A credible press day venue because the layout separates viewing from hospitality, which is what keeps a media preview moving. Brands running press days in spaces like this typically dress the open floor with the collection on rail, use the meeting room for embargoed one-to-ones with editors, and run drinks and pastries out of the central kitchen. Rosemont and Beaubien metro are both within walking distance, which keeps journalist attendance rates high for a mid-morning slot of 20 to 40 guests. E-commerce Shoot Purpose-suited to e-commerce shoot days, since lighting, furniture, fitting rooms and a stock room already exist and the building houses additional photo studios if you need overflow or a second set. On a full production day the open zone takes the shooting bay, the meeting room becomes styling and steaming, and the loading dock plus elevator handles rail delivery of 200 plus SKUs. Fast Wi-Fi supports tethered capture and same-day upload to the retoucher. Editorial Shoot and Brand Content Day Works for editorial and brand shoot work because the industrial finish combined with the large windows onto Bellechasse Street gives you two distinct looks in one booking, raw and daylit. A typical crew of eight to twelve moves comfortably here, with the lounge areas doubling as talent holding and the kitchen covering crew catering. Worth confirming daylight hours against your shot list, as window light on a lower level shifts earlier in the afternoon than a ground floor unit. Video Production Adequate to good for video, with sound and video equipment on site, controllable artificial lighting and air conditioning that can be cycled between takes. The 158 sqm footprint gives enough depth for interview setups, product tabletop and simple motion work in the same session. What makes this work specifically is the loading dock and elevator for grip and camera carts, though shared building activity means you should schedule sound-critical takes early in the day. Creative Workshop or Masterclass A practical workshop venue because the kitchen anchors the layout and the meeting room gives you a teaching room separate from the making space. Seated at tables the open area handles 25 to 35 participants comfortably, or around 20 if each station needs materials and elbow room. Fast Wi-Fi, air conditioning and accessible entry cover the basics, and the neighbourhood cafés along Beaubien give attendees somewhere to go during breaks, which keeps a half-day format relaxed. Influencer Event Suits an intimate creator event rather than a large launch party, with 40 to 60 guests standing being the realistic comfortable ceiling despite the higher stated occupancy. The industrial shell photographs well, and you can build two content corners against the window wall while the kitchen serves as the bar station and the lounge areas hold gifting. Pair the booking with influencer marketing so the guest list and content deliverables are locked before the space is dressed.",
  "neighbourhoodMood": "Photographers, independent Québécois labels, furniture and object designers, and small production agencies make up the working population of this stretch of La Petite-Patrie, and most of them are inside converted light industrial buildings rather than behind shopfronts. The Bellechasse corridor between Saint-Denis and Papineau has quietly absorbed the studio overflow that Mile End priced out, and the building this space sits in follows the same logic, with additional photo studios sharing the address, a loading dock, and freight access that tells you exactly who the neighbours are. Walk two minutes north to Beaubien Est and the ecosystem becomes visible at street level: Galerie COA and Galerie Erga, Inedit.e and Battaglia & Aly on the fashion side, La Fin du Vinyle for the record crowd, and a café rhythm around Bazar, Café Odessa and Moustache that doubles as the informal meeting circuit for freelance stylists and art directors. In our venue sourcing work across Montréal, this pocket consistently comes up for showroom rental, lookbook shoots and small-format brand activation where the client wants a working studio feel rather than a polished retail box. Brands choose this corridor over Vieux-Montréal and Griffintown because the square metre value is genuinely different and the audience arriving is professional rather than incidental. Rue Saint-Paul and the Old Port command premium rates and deliver tourist volume that means very little to a buyer appointment venue, while Griffintown reads corporate and Sainte-Catherine downtown is built for high-volume temporary retail rather than considered presentations. Mile End and Saint-Viateur remain the default creative quarter answer in this city, but availability there is tight, loading is difficult, and rates have climbed to the point where a 158 sqm floorplate becomes hard to justify. What we consistently hear from brand teams who activate here is that the tradeoff is straightforward: you give up spontaneous discovery and gain a controllable, appointment-driven environment with real infrastructure, parking, and an elevator. Beaubien and Rosemont metro stations sit within walking distance on the orange line, BIXI docks and the Bellechasse bike path handle the local creative crowd, and if you are modelling the cost difference against a Mile End or Old Montreal address, the budget calculator will show the gap quickly. Arriving here for a press day feels closer to visiting a production facility than a boutique, and that is the honest character of the block. Bellechasse Street at this point is wide, low rise and functional, with vehicle movement from the nearby Canadian Tire and trade suppliers in the mornings, delivery vans mid morning, and a quieter afternoon rhythm broken mainly by studio crews stepping out for coffee. The space itself sits at basement level with large windows onto the street, which means excellent controlled daylight for a content studio or fashion presentation space, but no shopfront presence whatsoever. Guests come because they were invited and because they have the address, not because they saw a sign. The street dynamic works particularly well for invite-only showroom appointments, sample sale space for a known mailing list, and multi day shoots that need the loading dock and stock room. It is not suited to walk-in traffic, tourist retail, or any pop-up shop strategy that depends on passing footfall, and for build-heavy concepts you should factor in the freight route early with our production and build team.",
  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "Is Versatile Showroom and Creative Space Available available for pop-up shops?",
      "answer": "Yes — Versatile Showroom and Creative Space Available is a vetted pop-up ready space in Montréal, 158 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing."
    },
    {
      "question": "What is the day rate?",
      "answer": "CA$1,200 / 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: fast Wi-Fi, meeting room, kitchen, lounge areas, accessible, BIXI, bike paths, local services."
    },
    {
      "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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