Retail Space Available for Sharing in Upper Queen Anne.
about this space
This 800 square foot retail space is available for share monthly, offering an ideal opportunity for new businesses to showcase their products. The store already has an established team in place, creating a collaborative environment for sharing ideas and resources. The space comes equipped with essential amenities, including internet access, air conditioning, a security system, and a stock room, ensuring a functional and secure environment for operations. Additional features include counters, fitting rooms, garment racks, and lighting to display merchandise effectively. The space is also furnished with sound and video equipment, electricity, heating, and kitchen facilities. Parking and elevator access further enhance convenience for both staff and customers.
the fwv take
Take this Upper Queen Anne share as a two month trading pop-up and market test, not as a press day venue or a single evening fashion presentation, because the 56 day minimum term paired with a resident team already opening and closing the floor means what you are actually buying is staffed selling hours and eight weeks of clean sell-through data rather than a one-night storefront moment.
Being below grade is the operational advantage here rather than a compromise: with no daylight to fight, the installed retail lighting holds an identical colour temperature from opening to close, so window merchandising, fitting room service and product photography all read the same at 10am and 7pm, while the elevator and back stock room let you replenish rails mid-trade without pushing cartons across a live shop floor.
The brand that wins here is a founder-led independent at one to four years of trading, DTC-first, working in knitwear, outerwear, workwear, jewellery or small-batch beauty with a warm, crafted, neighbourhood aesthetic, and we would be doing you no favours by pretending otherwise: at 74 square metres, basement level and shared with a co-tenant who controls the fascia, this is not a home for a luxury maison, so your identity has to be carried entirely by fixtures, graphics and branded store design rather than architecture.
Seattle moves faster than the European capitals and brands activating in this type of shared unit consistently find four to six weeks from enquiry to opening is realistic, though the September to December run fills first as everyone chases holiday trade and carries the least negotiation room, so the two things to settle before you ship stock are written merchandising zones and till arrangements with the resident operator and a date map against our activation timeline.
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
- Wifi
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how to book this space
- 01
Check the shell and the dates
Review the gallery, 74 sqm floor plan and amenities for Retail Space Available for Sharing in Upper Queen Anne, then note the window you want in Seattle. 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 €62 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 Seattle.
- 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 Seattle.
activation ideas
Multi-Week Trading Pop-Up
This works as a trading brand activation rather than a short moment, because the resident team already opens the 74 sqm floor daily and the counters, fitting rooms and garment racks are installed. Brands running temporary retail in shared units like this typically merchandise a tight rail-led edit inside their agreed zone and are selling within 48 hours of stock landing. The 56 day minimum makes it a genuine market test, so budget eight weeks of cover and run your own till through point of sale and payments.
Sample Sale
A strong sample sale space, because rack density, fitting rooms and a back stock room matter far more here than architecture or daylight. Comfortable shopping capacity is around 15 to 20 people on the floor at once, with the stock room used for size replenishment and the elevator for pallet drops away from customers. Model your discount ladder and expected sell-through with the ROI estimator before you commit freight, since a basement location rewards a mailing list push over passing footfall.
Fashion Showroom and Wholesale Appointments
Credible as a working showroom rental because on-site parking, elevator access and a dedicated stock room cover the unglamorous parts of a wholesale appointment. Plan for four to six buyers across a morning, with the counters used for line sheets and order writing and the fitting rooms for fit checks. In practice most brands split the eight week term into public trading days and appointment-only mornings, which keeps the collection preview private while the resident team continues to serve retail customers.
Product Launch Evening
This suits a tightly invited product launch rather than an open-door party, and the installed sound and video equipment plus kitchen facilities remove most of the supplier list. With fixtures in place across 74 sqm, plan 25 to 30 guests standing and stage the launch in week one so it feeds footfall into the rest of the run. Event nights need written sign-off from the resident operator because the floor is shared, and door timing should sit after normal trading hours.
E-commerce Shoot
Better for e-commerce shoots than most basement units, because the absence of daylight means colour temperature holds identical from 9am to 7pm and your setup never needs re-balancing. A crew of four or five works comfortably, with the fitting rooms doubling as changing and the stock room as garment staging and steaming. The constraint is scale, so shoot on-figure product and detail rather than wide sets, and lock shoot windows with the operator to avoid photographing around live customers.
Content Creation Day
What makes this work as a content studio specifically is that you get a real retail set with counters, rails and fitting rooms instead of an empty room, so social and editorial shoot output looks like a store because it is one. Wifi, electricity, heating and sound and video equipment are already installed. Brands trading a longer term routinely bank a full quarter of social content on quieter weekday mornings at no additional venue cost, which is the most efficient use of the 56 day commitment.
Influencer Event
Adequate for a small influencer evening of 15 to 20 guests, and the kitchen handles catering and drinks prep without bringing in a mobile bar. Fitting rooms mean guests can try and be filmed in product rather than only handling it, which is what makes these nights convert in a neighbourhood retail setting like Queen Anne Avenue. We usually pair the guest list with local Seattle creators sourced through influencer marketing and keep the format to a two hour window.
Art Exhibition or Gallery Showing
Workable for a small gallery showing because the lighting is installed and fully controllable rather than daylight-led, which is what a hang actually needs. Realistically you are working with limited continuous wall run across 74 sqm, so this suits small-format works, photography, prints or objects on plinths rather than large canvases. Brands pairing an exhibition with the resident concept get the most from it, using the show as a reason for local customers to return during a two month trading term.
Creative Workshop
A reasonable workshop venue for 12 to 15 seated participants, with the counters serving as work surfaces and the kitchen covering refreshments and clean-up. Because the space is shared, workshops run best outside peak trading hours or on a quieter weekday evening once the resident team has closed the floor. In our experience these sessions do their real job as retention tools across a long run, giving local customers a second and third reason to come back and buy.
use cases
location
getting here & street life
nearest transit
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the neighbourhood
Moonrise Bakery is a bakery in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood, in the U.S. state of Washington. It opened in 2021, after Olympia Coffee Roasting Co. purchased Le Reve Bakery in 2020 and completed a rebrand and remodel. The shop supplies pastries and other baked goods to Olympia Coffee locations throughout the region.
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frequently asked
Yes, this 800 square foot Upper Queen Anne share is available for pop-up shops and is one of the more straightforward trading formats to run in Seattle. Because the counters, fitting rooms, garment racks and lighting are already installed, your brand can merchandise and start selling without a build phase. The 56 day minimum term means it works as a multi-week retail test rather than a weekend moment, so plan stock depth for roughly eight weeks of continuous trade. Brands running this format in a shared unit typically find that daily trading with a resident team on the floor gives them cleaner sell-through data than a short activation ever does.
who it suits
Brand Scale
This 800 square foot shared retail space suits a small independent brand with a one to eight person team, roughly one to four years of trading, and an existing DTC or local wholesale base that has never held a physical footprint. The share model is the deciding factor: an established team already runs the floor, so a founder-led label can trade daily without hiring, rostering, or covering a full lease. The 56 day minimum term also means this is a retail test, not a weekend moment, so brands at this stage typically find it works best when they have enough stock depth to hold two months of continuous selling. Where we see mismatches is when a mid-size brand with a 30 person team and a marketing calendar built around exclusive fascia control books here and discovers it cannot own the storefront identity. If you need a standalone temporary retail space with full signage rights and no co-tenant, you should browse all spaces instead of this one.
Aesthetic Fit
Design languages that read warm, crafted, and neighbourhood-scale work here: Pacific Northwest apparel, knitwear, outerwear, workwear, ceramics, jewellery, small-batch beauty, and independent accessory labels. The existing fit-out gives you counters, fitting rooms, garment racks, and controllable lighting, so a rail-led merchandising plan lands immediately without a build. Because this is a basement-level mall unit inside a shared floor, your visual identity has to travel through your own fixtures, graphics, and lighting rather than a window elevation, which is where branded store design earns its keep. What does not work is high-gloss luxury: a brand whose presentation depends on natural daylight, double-height ceilings, a controlled entrance sequence, or a minimal white cube will find the shared context and the basement level dilute the message. Loud, maximalist concept retail also competes badly with a co-tenant's merchandising.
Best Use Cases
First choice is a multi-week pop-up shop trading real product, because the fitting rooms, stock room, counters, and on-site team let you sell from day one rather than build toward it. Second is a retail test for a DTC brand entering the Seattle market, since Upper Queen Anne draws a repeat local customer walking Queen Anne Avenue past the bookshop and community center rather than one-off tourist traffic. Third is a fashion showroom and wholesale appointment base, with the elevator, parking, and stock room making buyer visits and sample handling straightforward. Fourth is a product launch or collection preview evening, supported by the sound and video equipment and kitchen facilities for catering. Fifth is a sample sale, where rack density and fitting rooms matter more than architecture. Sixth is content studio and photo shoot use on quieter days, and seventh is a small art exhibition or gallery showing that pairs with the resident concept.
Budget Signal
This sits at the entry tier for Seattle retail and well below what a comparable standalone unit on Queen Anne Avenue or in Ballard, Capitol Hill, or downtown would cost on a short-term commercial agreement. The value is in what is already installed and already staffed: internet, air conditioning, heating, security system, lighting, furniture, fitting rooms, and a working team, none of which you are paying to source, build, or recruit. Against a hotel event space you lose prestige but gain daily trading and a real till. Against a co-working venue you gain genuine retail fixtures. Against a shared pop-up format in a market hall you gain privacy, a stock room, and longer dwell time. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this space is a brand treating the two month minimum as a paid market test, and running the numbers through our budget calculator before committing stock.
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