Salon Booth Rental Opportunity in Monrovia.
tl;dr
- Space
- A 93 sqm (1,000 sq ft) fitted salon and retail space for rent in Monrovia, Los Angeles County, set on a basement floor of a mall-format building off the Myrtle Avenue commercial strip. The room reads as a working, service-led salon with three chairs, mirrored counters and a wash bowl already installed, vetted by Fashion Week Venues for beauty and content use.
- Best For
- Salon chair and booth rental for independent stylists, beauty treatment residencies and grooming pop-ups, temporary retail for apparel and accessories, sample sale space with secure back stock, and content studio or brand shoot location days for tutorial and social filming. Appointment-led formats outperform walk-in formats here, so book by the day for testing and by the week for a full residency.
- Standout Features
- Three salon chairs plus a plumbed hair washing bowl already installed, so the space is move-in ready with no wet works build. Also included: fitting rooms and a full-length garment rack for retail and sample sale conversion, a lockable stock room behind the floor, CCTV and a monitored security system, on-site sound and video equipment, a kitchen area for catering or hospitality, and free adjacent parking with elevator access to the basement level.
- Location
- Sycamore and 2nd Avenue eastbound bus stop is an 8 minute walk, with the Metro A Line at Monrovia Station Square connecting directly to Pasadena and Downtown Los Angeles. The immediate street is a suburban commercial strip with a Starbucks directly opposite and residential blocks behind, calm for load-in and easy for guests arriving by car.
- Availability
- Day rate is $42 with a one day minimum rental, making this the entry tier for short-term commercial space in greater Los Angeles. Allow 2 to 3 weeks lead time for Monrovia, and longer around the Friday Street Fair season and the spring and autumn LA market weeks when beauty and content bookings at this address typically fill first.
- How to Book
- Enquire with your dates and activation format and we reply within 24h to confirm availability, with no charge until confirmed. Permit paperwork, staffing and fit-out coordination are handled by our team on the brand's behalf, so request availability now to hold your run.
about this space
This inviting salon space is located on a busy street in Monrovia, directly across from a Starbucks, ensuring a steady flow of foot traffic. The rental offers one or multiple salon chairs, with three available for your choice, and includes a bowl for hair washing. The space comes with various amenities for your convenience, such as internet access, air conditioning, a security system, and a stock room. Additional features include counters, fitting rooms, a garment rack, and adequate lighting. You will also benefit from sound and video equipment, electricity, heating, parking, and an elevator. A kitchen area is available for your use, along with a closed-circuit television (CCTV) system for added security. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to establish or expand their salon business in a well-trafficked area.
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
- CCTV
options de package
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how to book this space
- 01
Check the shell and the dates
Review the gallery, 93 sqm floor plan and amenities for Salon Booth Rental Opportunity in Monrovia, then note the window you want in Monrovia. 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 €36 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 Monrovia.
- 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 Monrovia.
activation ideas
Sample Sale
Strong fit as a sample sale space because the fitting rooms, garment rack and lockable stock room are already installed and need no build. Across 93 sqm we would run 20 to 25 shoppers at a time, two till points on the existing counters, CCTV covering the floor and overflow stock held behind. Basement footfall is invitation and mailing list driven rather than walk-in, so use timed entry slots and a mobile setup arranged through our point of sale and payments team.
Beauty Treatment Pop-Up
This is the format the room was built for, since three chairs and a plumbed wash bowl let a haircare, braiding or grooming brand deliver live service with zero wet works. In practice two operators plus one host is the working ratio, with six to eight guests holding comfortably before the floor feels tight. Free adjacent parking matters when guests arrive with kit or leave mid-treatment, and dressing the room to brand through branded store design takes a weekend.
Content Creation Day
Works well as a content studio precisely because it sits below grade, so there is no daylight shift to chase across a nine hour day. Mirrored counters and salon chairs give ready-made framing for tutorial, get-ready and product demo content, the on-site sound and video equipment covers basic capture, and the kitchen area doubles as a crew base. Elevator access handles lighting and grip load-in, and the stock room secures kit between setups.
E-commerce Shoot
Adequate to strong for volume e-commerce shoot days, mainly because the garment rack, fitting rooms and counters create a working on-model loop inside one room. Brands running catalogue days in spaces like this typically move 150 to 250 units with one photographer, one stylist and two models, using the rack for run order and the fitting rooms as changing. Consistent artificial light means frames match across multiple booking days, which matters for large drops.
Editorial and Brand Shoot
The salon fixtures read as a set rather than a limitation, which is what makes this credible for an editorial shoot or brand campaign. Mirrored counters, the tiled wash station, the chairs and the fitting room wall give three or four distinct backdrops inside 93 sqm without redressing. The honest constraint is a basement ceiling height, so plan low profile lighting and avoid tall rigs. The quiet suburban street keeps load-in calm and unpoliced.
Video Production
Works for dialogue and tutorial-led video production because a below-grade floor plate in a mall building keeps street noise out of the audio bed. The 93 sqm holds one filming set plus a holding and monitor area, with a crew of six to eight before it gets congested. Sound and video equipment, electricity and air conditioning are in place, and the kitchen handles catering. Long dolly or track moves are not realistic in this footprint.
Workshop or Masterclass
Genuinely practical for hands-on beauty education, since three chairs and a wash bowl let attendees practise rather than only watch. We would seat 12 to 16 with chairs angled toward the mirrored counters, run demonstrations at the wash station and use the kitchen area for refreshments across a half day. Internet supports simultaneous streaming for a paid remote cohort, and the elevator plus parking keeps arrival straightforward for attendees carrying tool cases.
Influencer Event
Works for a tight creator group of 20 to 25, not a large guest list, and the draw is live treatment or gifting rather than the room itself. Set the three chairs as service stations, the counters as a product and gifting bar, and the kitchen as the drinks point. Talent based on the Westside needs real notice to travel east, so build invitations early and sequence them against our activation timeline.
use cases
location
the neighbourhood
Independent stylists, barbers, brow and lash technicians, small skincare founders and a rotating cast of location scouts make up the working population of this part of Monrovia. The density of owner-run beauty and grooming businesses along Myrtle Avenue and its feeder streets is higher than almost anywhere else in the eastern San Gabriel Valley, and it is matched by a second commercial band on Huntington Drive where Trader Joe's corporate offices, AeroVironment and a run of light industrial and design tenants hold weekday daytime numbers steady. Production is the other constant presence. The Myrtle strip and the Craftsman blocks north of Foothill have stood in for generic American Main Street across decades of film and television work, so crews, catering trucks and stills teams are an ordinary weekday sight rather than an event. In our experience placing brands out here, the ecosystem is service, creator and content led rather than gallery or atelier led, and beauty labels pairing a treatment residency with influencer marketing find stylists, local talent and shoot support already on the ground without importing anyone from the Westside.
Cost control and operational ease are the honest reasons brands pick Monrovia over Melrose, Fairfax, Abbot Kinney or the Arts District. Day rates here sit at a fraction of what equivalent square metreage commands west of the 110, and unlike Old Pasadena or Larchmont Village you are not paying a premium for pedestrian volume that a booked-appointment format never converts anyway. Parking is free, plentiful and adjacent, which matters more than brand teams expect for beauty and temporary retail formats where guests arrive with kit or leave mid-treatment. The city sits comfortably inside the thirty mile studio zone so crew rates stay standard, and Monrovia's own permitting desk moves faster and cheaper than routing paperwork through the City of Los Angeles. The Metro A Line at Station Square runs direct to Pasadena and Downtown. What this area does not offer is press proximity or buyer traffic. Editors and agency clients based in West Hollywood or Culver City treat a trip east as a real commitment, so build the invitation list accordingly and model the full run with the budget calculator before committing to dates.
Arrival here is suburban and unhurried, with the rhythm set largely by the Starbucks directly opposite. Between seven and ten in the morning there is a consistent run of commuters, parents on the Monrovia High drop cycle and local office workers, then the street settles into a quieter midday pattern before picking up again from four. It reads as a commercial strip with residential blocks immediately behind, so evenings stay calm except on Fridays, when the Street Fair pulls families onto Myrtle and changes the tempo of the whole town. The space itself sits below grade in a mall-format building, which makes the arrival a considered one rather than an impulse one, and the wash bowl, fitting rooms, garment rack and stock room make it genuinely workable as a content studio, sample sale space, grooming activation or brand shoot location. What we consistently tell brand teams is not to come here for street visibility or spontaneous walk-in volume, because a basement floor plate on a car-first boulevard will deliver neither. If footfall-driven temporary retail is the objective, browse all spaces in higher exposure districts instead.
getting here & street life
nearest transit
- Sycamore & 2nd Avenue Eastboundbus634 m · 8 min
the neighbourhood
Monrovia High School is a public high school located in Monrovia, California, a northeastern suburb of Los Angeles, United States. Monrovia High School is the only grades 9–12 comprehensive high school in the Monrovia Unified School District. Established in 1893, the campus is located in an environment of neo-Spanish architecture, green lawns, and hundred-year-old oak trees, and is nestled against the San Gabriel Mountains. The portion of the campus designed in 1928 is the work of noted Los Angeles architect John C. Austin.
- Arcadia Unified School District · 690 m
frequently asked
Yes — Salon Booth Rental Opportunity in Monrovia is a vetted pop-up ready space in Monrovia, 93 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing.
who it suits
Brand Scale
This space fits owner-operated beauty and small independent fashion brands with a 1 to 8 person team, roughly 1 to 6 years of trading, and revenue under the seven figure mark. At 93 sqm across a basement level unit with three salon chairs, a wash bowl, fitting rooms and a stock room, the footprint supports a working service business or a compact retail experience run by two or three staff, not a multi-zone brand presentation with a build crew. Brands at this stage typically find the low commitment of a one day minimum lets them test Monrovia and the wider San Gabriel Valley without signing a multi-year lease. Where we see mismatches is when national beauty groups or funded DTC labels enquire expecting street-level frontage and a press-worthy shell. This is a functional, already-fitted room in a mall basement, so brands needing a hero facade for launch imagery should look at street-facing options and browse all spaces before committing.
Aesthetic Fit
Warm, service-led and approachable identities work here: hair and scalp care, braiding and extensions, nail and lash brands, barbering, plus accessible apparel and accessory labels that sell through conversation rather than spectacle. The existing counters, mirrors, garment rack, fitting rooms and general lighting read as a practical working salon, which suits brands whose visual language is friendly, community-first and product-demonstration led. What will not work is a minimalist luxury or high-concept avant-garde identity. The room has fixed salon fittings, standard ceiling heights and basement daylight conditions, so any brand whose aesthetic depends on natural light, raw architectural volume or a stripped white gallery shell will fight the space rather than use it. If you want to soften or restyle the room for a short run, staged pieces sourced through furniture rental will do more than paint.
Best Use Cases
First choice is a salon chair or booth rental for an independent stylist or beauty brand, since the wash bowl, three chairs, counters and stock room are already in place and need no build. Second is a beauty services pop-up or treatment residency, where the mall setting, parking and elevator make walk-in and appointment traffic straightforward. Third is a temporary retail space for apparel and accessories, supported by fitting rooms, a garment rack and CCTV. Fourth is a sample sale space, because the stock room and lockable security system handle volume stock safely. Fifth is a small content studio session, using the sound and video equipment and mirrored walls for tutorial and social content. Sixth is a workshop or masterclass format with a kitchen area for hospitality. Staffing a short run of any of these is simpler with retail staffing booked ahead of opening.
Budget Signal
This sits at the entry tier for short-term commercial space in greater Los Angeles and well below comparable Monrovia street-level retail. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this price point is a brand that values a fitted, working room over a landmark address. Prime commercial units on nearby high streets carry multiples of this cost plus fit-out and permits, hotel event spaces charge for hospitality you do not need for a service business, and co-working venues rarely allow wet services or stock storage at all. Shared pop-up formats can be cheaper per day but split visibility across several brands. Here you get exclusive use, existing salon infrastructure, parking, heating, air conditioning and security folded into one rate. Model the full run rather than the day rate using our budget calculator before you enquire.
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