Corner Shop Available for Rent in Causeway Bay.
tl;dr
- Space
- A 123 sqm (1,320 sq ft) corner retail unit for rent at basement mall level in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island, fitted as a working store with counters, fitting rooms, garment racks and track lighting rather than a raw shell. There is no daylight and no street facade, so the identity is built from within using lighting, screens and wall treatments.
- Best For
- Strongest fit is a medium-term pop-up shop or temporary retail run of six to twelve months, followed by a market entry test store for an international brand proving Hong Kong demand, a retail and fashion showroom hybrid running wholesale appointments and buyer previews behind an open trading floor, a product launch or brand activation using the installed sound and video equipment, and a sample sale space where volume traffic outweighs atmosphere. Short two week drops and single day press day formats are not available here because of the lease minimum.
- Standout Features
- Move-in ready retail fit-out with service counters, fitting rooms, garment racks and a dedicated stock room, which removes most fixture capex from the build budget. Also included are a back of house kitchen suitable for catering and buyer hospitality, in-place sound and video equipment, escalator and lift access direct from the MTR concourse into the unit, on-site parking and elevator load-in for stock and set pieces, plus air conditioning, heating and a monitored security system.
- Location
- Causeway Bay MTR Island Line sits directly above the unit with escalator and lift access in under two minutes, trams on Yee Wo Street are roughly three minutes on foot and Tin Hau MTR is about ten minutes. The immediate block on Kai Chiu Road and Hysan Avenue, vetted by Fashion Week Venues, trades at high density beside Carhartt, Mardi Mercredi, Apple, Uniqlo and Eslite, so guests arrive already inside the retail flow rather than off a public pavement.
- Availability
- Minimum term is 180 days at a day rate of HK$30,000 (approximately EUR 3,333), making this a season-length commitment rather than a weekend hire. We advise securing Hong Kong retail three to six months ahead, and units at this address typically book out around the September Centrestage window, Golden Week and the Lunar New Year trading peak.
- How to Book
- Send a brief through Fashion Week Venues and we confirm availability within 24h, with permit paperwork, retail staffing and fit-out coordination handled by our team on the brand's behalf. There is no charge until confirmed, so request availability for your dates now.
about this space
This prime corner shop is available for rent in Causeway Bay, situated in a high-traffic area near a major MTR exit and luxury brands including Chanel, as well as Hysan Place shopping mall. The shop features several amenities to support retail operations, including internet access, air conditioning, a security system, and a stock room. Designed for optimal functionality, it is equipped with counters, fitting rooms, garment racks, and appropriate lighting. Additional features include furniture, sound and video equipment, electricity, heating, parking facilities, an elevator, and a kitchen. This space presents a valuable opportunity for retail businesses seeking a prominent location.
what's included
- Internet
- Air Conditioning
- Security System
- Stock Room
- Counters
- Fitting Rooms
- Garment Rack
- Lighting
- Furniture
- Sound & Video Equipment
- Electricity
- Heating
- Parking
- Elevator
- Kitchen
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how to book this space
- 01
Check the shell and the dates
Review the gallery, 123 sqm floor plan and amenities for Corner Shop Available for Rent in Causeway Bay, then note the window you want in Hong Kong. Fashion week dates book 6–10 weeks out.
- 02
Send the brief
Use the request panel on this page to send your dates, expected footfall and budget. The listed rate is a starting point at €3300 per day.
- 03
Get availability and a quote
We confirm availability with the operator and come back within 24 hours with the all-in cost: rent, staffing, permits and fit-out for Hong Kong.
- 04
Lock the contract
Sign the short-term licence, pay the deposit and we register any permit or signage paperwork the address needs.
- 05
Build and open
Fit-out, install and staff the pop-up. Our production team handles delivery, install and the strike at the end of the run in Hong Kong.
activation ideas
Medium-Term Pop-Up Store
This is the format the unit is built for, because 123 sqm of fitted basement mall retail with counters, fitting rooms, garment racks and a dedicated stock room removes most of the fixture spend from a pop-up concept. Brands running temporary retail at this address typically commit six to twelve months against the 180 day minimum, staff three to four people on the floor at weekends, and run tills through our point of sale and payments setup so conversion is tracked from opening week.
Market Entry Brand Activation
The corner position feeding off the Causeway Bay MTR concourse makes this a credible test store for an international label proving Hong Kong demand before signing a permanent lease. In practice the stock room and back of house absorb replenishment for a full apparel range without eating selling floor, and a season-length term gives enough trading weeks to read repeat purchase rather than launch noise, which is why we usually pair a unit like this with data and analytics from day one.
Product Launch
Works well for a launch moment because the sound and video equipment is already installed, so no separate AV hire is needed for a single evening reveal. What makes this work specifically is the enclosed basement envelope: no street noise, no facade permit issue, and controlled entry from the mall concourse. Clear the central floor and the room takes roughly 70 to 80 standing with counters retained as bar and demo stations, with stock and set pieces arriving by elevator and on-site parking.
Sample Sale
Strong fit, because a sample sale space needs volume traffic and back of house capacity rather than atmosphere, and both are already here. The stock room holds sized replenishment out of sight, the fitting rooms and counters handle try-on and queue flow, and MTR-fed footfall does the marketing work. Be realistic on capacity: 123 sqm trades comfortably at around 50 to 60 shoppers at once, so weekends need timed entry and a door count rather than open access.
SS/AW Seasonal Showroom
Adequate to good as a fashion showroom during weekday mornings, when the lower mall levels stay quiet until around eleven. The installed garment racks let you rail an entire seasonal buy along the perimeter and keep the centre clear for a look table, while the stock room stores carry-over and duplicate sizes. The constraint worth knowing is that trading and showroom use overlap in one room, so most brands here run collection preview hours before opening the floor to retail.
Buyer Appointments
Genuinely practical for wholesale appointments, mainly because the regional buying offices and distribution agents in the Lee Gardens towers are a five minute walk away. The kitchen covers coffee and light hospitality without external catering, the elevator and parking handle sample trunk load-in, and the fitting rooms let a buyer see fit on a model in the same session. Expect six to eight appointments in a working day, with two running in parallel at most before the floor feels crowded.
E-commerce and Content Day
Works for controlled e-commerce shoot and content studio use precisely because there is no daylight to fight, so lighting is consistent from first frame to last. The existing track lighting gives a base, fitting rooms serve as changing and styling, the stock room holds rails between looks, and the kitchen supports a crew of eight to twelve. Book shoot blocks before mall opening or after close. This is not the room for a daylight-dependent editorial shoot.
Influencer Event
Suited to a tight evening guest list rather than a mass event, with 60 to 70 attendees the honest comfortable ceiling once product remains merchandised on the walls. The in-place sound system, air conditioning and controlled single entry make guest management simple, and MTR access directly above removes any arrival friction for Hong Kong creators. Mall closing hours cap the run time, so plan a 6pm to 9pm window and brief talent through influencer marketing well in advance.
Press Day Within a Longer Tenancy
Viable as a press day venue only as part of a season-length occupancy, not as a standalone hire, since the 180 day minimum rules out one-day bookings. Once you hold the unit, a weekday morning press preview runs cleanly for 15 to 25 editors and stylists in rotation, using the garment racks for the full look run, the fitting rooms for on-body shots and the kitchen for catering prep, with the floor reopened to retail by early afternoon.
use cases
location
what's around
17 stores within 600 m, incl. Carhartt, Mardi Mercredi, mi-tu
brands nearby
- fashion stores
- 13
- jewellery & watches
- 3
- department stores
- 1
- culture
- 1
- hotels
- 1
- cafés
- 7
- restaurants & bars
- 17
- other retail
- 17
- Carhartt10 m
- Mardi Mercredi10 m
- mi-tu10 m
- Marithé François Girbaud20 m
- Leica30 m
- Giordano Ladies30 m
the neighbourhood
Streetwear labels, Korean and Japanese contemporary brands, eyewear and watch houses, and the regional buying offices that decide their Greater China rollout are the working population of this stretch of Causeway Bay. Within a hundred metres of this address, Carhartt, Mardi Mercredi, mi-tu, Marithé François Girbaud and Giordano Ladies trade shoulder to shoulder along Kai Chiu Road and Hysan Avenue, with Eslite, the Apple Store and the Hysan Place podium sitting directly over the MTR interchange and the Lee Gardens cluster running south toward Leighton Road. Independent designers and resale specialists keep tiny units in Island Beverley and Laforet a few minutes north, while distribution agents, PR consultancies and brand managers hold desks in the Lee Gardens towers, meaning the person who signs off an Asia-Pacific budget is often buying congee on the same block as your temporary retail unit. It reads as a commercial machine rather than a studio quarter, and brands who browse all spaces expecting a gallery district read it wrong from the outset.
Sustained local footfall is the reason brands take Causeway Bay over Central, Tsim Sha Tsui or Sheung Wan, and it is close to the only reason that matters. Central around The Landmark and Queen's Road delivers a wealthier weekday corporate audience but thins badly at weekends and skews toward maison adjacency that a mid-tier apparel brand will not benefit from. Tsim Sha Tsui and Canton Road pull mainland visitors and cruise arrivals with weaker local repeat traffic. Sheung Wan, PoHo and Star Street in Wan Chai give a calmer creative quarter atmosphere and better sqm value for invite-only press day formats, but they generate almost no discovery traffic. What we consistently hear from brand teams who activate here is that Causeway Bay converts on volume from Thursday evening through Sunday night, drawing a young, local, spend-ready crowd straight off the Island Line. What it does not offer is quiet, cheap or flexible. Rents remain among the highest globally per square foot, and the 180 day minimum term makes this a season commitment, so run the numbers through the budget calculator before you brief anyone.
Arriving here means descending rather than walking in off a pavement, and that single fact shapes every decision a brand makes on this unit. The corner sits at basement level inside the mall structure, reached by escalator and lift from the MTR concourse, so visitors are already inside the retail flow when they reach your door. Mornings are slow until around eleven, dominated by Lee Gardens office staff cutting through and shopfitters opening up, which makes weekday mornings genuinely workable for buyer appointments and quiet showroom sessions using the fitting rooms, stock room and back of house kitchen. The rhythm changes hard after four in the afternoon and again all weekend, when students, couples and day visitors flood the lower levels. In our experience placing brands in this neighbourhood, basement corners only convert when the threshold is staffed and visually loud, which is why we usually pair a unit like this with dedicated retail staffing. Honest note: this is not the address for brands needing street facade visibility, public pavement signage or a two week experiential drop.
getting here & street life
nearest transit
- 富明街 Foo Ming Streettram · 105109 m · 1 min
- 波斯富街 Percival Streettram · 51E151 m · 2 min
- 百德新街 Paterson Streettram · 48W171 m · 2 min
- 邊寧頓街 Pennington Streettram · 46W255 m · 3 min
- 堅拿道西 Canal Road Westtram · 50W289 m · 4 min
- 銅鑼灣總站 Causeway Bay Terminustram · CBT304 m · 4 min
street activity
high footfall.
56 places within 200 m · 34 stores · 24 cafés and restaurants
- within 200 m
- 56
- within 400 m
- 60
- within 600 m
- 60
the neighbourhood
Russell Street in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island, is a commercial shopping street in Hong Kong. In 2014, it was noted as the most expensive luxury street in the world.
- Hysan Place · 84 m
- Lee Garden · 94 m
- Jardine's Bazaar · 108 m
- Lee Garden One · 111 m
- Causeway Bay station · 127 m
- East Point, Hong Kong · 135 m
frequently asked
Yes, this 123 sqm corner unit in Causeway Bay is available for pop-up shops, but only for medium-term runs because the minimum term is 180 days. Brands that do well here treat it as a six to twelve month temporary retail programme or a Hong Kong market entry test store rather than a two week drop. The fixtures are already installed, so a pop-up shop can trade from the first week without a fixture build. In our experience placing brands at basement mall addresses in Causeway Bay, the formats that convert are those with enough duration to build repeat local traffic from the MTR concourse above.
who it suits
Brand Scale
This unit suits an established brand with a 20 to 100 person team, five or more years of trading, and an existing wholesale or DTC base that is now committing to Hong Kong or Greater China as a market. The 180 day minimum lease is the deciding factor: 123 sqm of fitted basement mall retail beside Hysan Place and a major MTR exit is a market entry commitment, not a week-long fashion week venue. Brands at this stage typically find the size correct for a full apparel range with fitting rooms and a stock room behind it, without the staffing burden of a 300 sqm flagship. Where we see mismatches is when a young label with a two person team and no regional distribution enquires hoping for a seven day pop-up shop, or when a global maison assumes a basement unit can carry a street-facing flagship launch. Neither profile gets value here.
Aesthetic Fit
Apparel-led brands with a controlled, lighting-driven interior language work best here: contemporary streetwear, Japanese and Korean contemporary labels, denim, accessories and footwear, all of which sit naturally alongside neighbours such as Carhartt, Mardi Mercredi, mi-tu and Marithé François Girbaud. Because the space is at basement level inside a mall, there is no natural daylight and no full-height street glazing, so the identity has to be built from within using track lighting, colour-blocked walls, screens and the existing sound and video equipment. That is a strength for brands with a graphic, saturated or club-adjacent visual world, and our team handles that kind of interior conversion through branded store design. What does not work is any concept that depends on daylight, garden planting, raw natural materials or a heritage townhouse mood, and equally any quiet luxury maison whose positioning requires a visible ground floor façade beside Chanel rather than a basement entrance.
Best Use Cases
First choice is a medium-term pop-up shop or temporary retail space running six to twelve months, because the fixtures, counters, fitting rooms, garment racks and stock room are already installed and the lease floor rewards duration rather than speed. Second is a market entry test store for an international brand proving Hong Kong demand before signing a permanent lease, with the MTR-adjacent corner position delivering the footfall needed for a clean read on conversion. Third is a retail and fashion showroom hybrid, where the kitchen, back of house and elevator access allow wholesale appointments and buyer meetings to run behind an open trading floor. Fourth is a product launch or brand activation using the in-place sound and video equipment. Fifth is a sample sale or archive clearance, where volume traffic matters more than atmosphere. Sixth is a content studio between trading hours, and for any of these we can staff the floor through our retail staffing service. A one-day press day or collection preview is the weakest fit given the lease minimum.
Budget Signal
This sits in the mid to upper band for Causeway Bay short-term commercial space, well below ground floor Russell Street and Hysan podium units, which trade at several multiples, and above comparable stock in Sheung Wan, Sham Shui Po or Tsim Sha Tsui side streets. What the tier buys is footfall adjacency to Apple, Uniqlo, Victoria's Secret and Eslite without paying prime street-level rent, plus a fully fitted retail interior that removes most fixture capex. In our experience brands underestimate that saving: counters, lighting, racks, fitting rooms, air conditioning, security and a stock room already in place typically offsets a five figure build budget. Against a hotel event space you gain daily trading rather than a single evening, against co-working or shared pop-up formats you gain full brand control and a locked address, and you can model the full picture with our budget calculator before enquiring.
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