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  "source": "Fashion Week Venues",
  "title": "Versatile Training and Meeting Rooms in Midtown Manhattan",
  "metaTitle": "Showroom Space New York | Hire 64 sqm in Midtown",
  "description": "This training center, located on the 20th floor of an office building in Midtown Manhattan at 8th Avenue and 35th Street, offers a range of meeting and training rooms with views of the New York City skyline. The Sky Blue Room, along with other spaces, can accommodate various configurations including classroom, theater, conference, and U-shape layouts, tailored to suit your event needs. Each room is equipped with tables and chairs, and audio-visual equipment is available for rent. On-site amenities include a reception area, restrooms, and a coffee station. The location is convenient to major transport hubs, providing easy access for participants.",
  "metaDescription": "Showroom space for hire in New York. 64 sqm on the 20th floor in Midtown with skyline views, wifi and reception. Vetted by FWV. Request availability.",
  "tldr": "A 64 sqm (690 sq ft) showroom and meeting room for hire on the 20th floor at 8th Avenue and 35th Street in the Garment District, Midtown Manhattan, with skyline views, neutral office finishes and reconfigurable furniture. Vetted by Fashion Week Venues as a move in ready, appointment led fashion showroom rather than a street facing retail unit. Best For Wholesale appointments and buyer previews across New York market weeks, press days and collection previews for editors and stylists, retail partner training workshops and product knowledge sessions, sales team line reviews, and single day content studio or lookbook shoots. Brands hire this room for scheduled, invite only formats where guests arrive by name on a list. Standout Features Fitting rooms, garment racks, counters and a lockable stock room already installed, so a wholesale appointment day runs without any build. Four seating configurations (classroom, theatre, conference, U shape) from the in room tables and chairs, audio visual equipment available to rent by the day, staffed reception and coffee station on the floor, and skyline daylight across the room from level 20. Location 34th Street Penn Station sits one minute from the lobby door, with Herald Square, Times Square and 33rd Street all seven minutes on foot and Port Authority Bus Terminal eight minutes. Street level at 8th Avenue and 35th Street is heavy commuter and garment trade traffic with Mood Fabrics, Elliott Berman Textiles and B&H Photo available within a five minute walk, while the 20th floor is quiet once the elevator closes. Availability Day rate is $810 (approximately EUR 706) with a one day minimum and a ten day maximum, so you can book by the day or by the week. Allow four to six weeks lead time in New York and eight to ten weeks for the September and February market week windows, as rooms at this address typically book out first for buyer appointment schedules. How to Book Send your dates, headcount and layout requirement and we confirm availability within 24 hours, 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 now to hold your market week dates.",
  "idealBrandProfile": "This suits a wholesale-driven fashion or accessories brand with a 3 to 25 person team, roughly 2 to 10 years of trading, and an existing buyer list it needs to see in person during market weeks. At 64 sqm on the 20th floor of a Midtown office building, the room holds a working showroom setup for one or two collections plus a seated appointment table, not a full multi-line presentation. The fitting rooms, garment racks, counters and stock room mean a brand can run a genuine wholesale appointment day without building anything. Where we see mismatches is when a large house with 300 plus SKUs and a six-person sales team books a single room like this and ends up splitting the collection across two floors. Equally, a pre-revenue label with no confirmed buyer meetings will find the day rate hard to justify against footfall-driven spaces in New York at street level. Aesthetic Fit Brands with a clean, commercial, contemporary identity work best here: contemporary ready-to-wear, tailoring, denim, knitwear, jewellery, neckwear and accessories that read well under neutral office lighting against a skyline backdrop. The interior is a corporate training room, so the space does the job when the product is the visual event and the room stays quiet behind it. What does not work is a heavily atmospheric or conceptual identity. Streetwear built on raw industrial texture, avant-garde labels needing dark walls and dramatic lighting, or beauty brands wanting an immersive scent-and-set environment will fight the drop ceiling, the standard carpet and the fixed AV rig. If your brand world depends on the shell, budget separately for production and build or look at a raw space instead. Best Use Cases First choice is the wholesale appointment showroom during New York market weeks, because the fitting rooms, stock room, garment racks and reception area cover the full buyer journey inside one booking. Second is a press day or collection preview, where the conference and U-shape layouts let editors and stylists sit, shoot and handle product with a coffee station on hand. Third is a buyer or retail partner training session and product knowledge workshop, the format the classroom and theater configurations were built for, supported by rentable audio-visual equipment. Fourth is a sales team offsite or seasonal line review, given the 1 to 10 day booking window suits a compressed market calendar. Fifth is a small content studio day using skyline daylight for lookbook and social capture. Sixth is an invitation-only networking or trade breakfast for around 40 guests. Brands at this stage typically find the one minute walk to 34th Street Penn Station does more for appointment attendance than any address prestige, and our venue sourcing team weighs that heavily. Budget Signal This sits in the mid tier for Midtown short-term commercial space, well below SoHo or Meatpacking street-level retail and below hotel event floors in the same postcode, but above co-working day passes and shared pop-up desks. The value is in what is already installed: furniture, lighting, wifi, AV, security, elevator access, kitchen, reception and fitting rooms, which removes most of the fit-out line that a raw temporary retail space would add. Compared with a hotel suite showroom you get more usable floor and no food and beverage minimum. Compared with a shared showroom you get exclusive control of the room and your own buyer flow. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this space is the brand running four to eight concentrated appointment days, and it is worth modelling that against a raw-space alternative in the budget calculator before committing.",
  "neighbourhoodMood": "Wholesale sales teams, patternmakers, trim reps, sample rooms and the freight elevators that move garments between them are what actually fills these blocks during working hours. Inside a five minute radius of 8th Avenue and 35th Street you have Elliott Berman Textiles and Best Bagel on West 35th, Mood Fabrics and G&R Fabric up on 37th, Lauren Trimming, Periche Buttons, Ebad Fabrics, Guide Fabrics, Jonathan Embroidery Plus and City Sewing Machine Corp threaded across 38th and 39th, and Nanette Lepore, Terani Couture, Selini Neckwear, Lee Jean Corp and Angelic Rise operating out of upper floors that carry no signage at street level. B&H Photo two avenues west equips most of the content studio and brand shoot work in this part of the city, and Manhattan Center with the Hammerstein Ballroom sits ninety metres from the door for anything scaled up to a fashion presentation. Having placed brands across spaces in New York for years, we still find this the only fashion district address where a buyer, a factory contact and a fabric supplier can all reach you inside a fifteen minute walk. Transport access is the single reason brands sign here instead of SoHo, Tribeca, NoHo or the Meatpacking District. The 34th Street Penn Station entrance is roughly a minute from the lobby, Herald Square, Times Square and 33rd Street are all around seven minutes on foot, and Port Authority is eight, which means buyers arriving from New Jersey, Westchester, Boston, Philadelphia or Washington walk from a train concourse into your elevator with no cab and no weather risk. During market week, when a buyer is seeing six brands before lunch, that reliability converts directly into attendance. What you give up is atmosphere and address prestige. Mercer and Wooster give you walk-in discovery and a photogenic frontage. Tribeca gives you calm and money. Neither gives you a mainline station underneath the building, and both cost significantly more per square metre for short-term commercial space. At this day rate for a private, reconfigurable showroom space with skyline views, the cost per buyer appointment is hard to argue with, and most teams sanity check that against downtown quotes in our budget calculator before committing. Arrival is quick, functional and entirely unglamorous at pavement level. The corner runs heavy pedestrian volume for most of the day, with commuter surges from seven to ten in the morning and again from four thirty onward, a midday layer of garment trade staff and delivery traffic, hotel guests from the New Yorker and TRYP, and cinema crowds around the AMC on 34th in the evening. Once the elevator doors close, the 20th floor is a separate environment: quiet, bright, with tables and chairs that reconfigure into classroom, theatre, conference or U shape depending on whether you are running a press day location, a buyer appointment venue, a workshop or a casting. What we consistently hear from brand teams who activate here is that guests arrive early because the journey is simple, then relax because the noise stops at the lobby. Honest limitation: this is not a pop-up shop or temporary retail address. Nobody discovers a 20th floor room by walking past it, so brands needing window visibility or walk-in volume should look downtown, ideally with proper venue sourcing across two or three shortlisted districts.",
  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "Is Versatile Training and Meeting Rooms in Midtown Manhattan available for pop-up shops?",
      "answer": "Yes — Versatile Training and Meeting Rooms in Midtown Manhattan is a vetted pop-up ready space in New York, 64 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing."
    },
    {
      "question": "What is the day rate?",
      "answer": "$810 / 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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