1,500 SF Retail Space on Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn.
about this space
This 1,500-square-foot commercial space is located at 320 Tompkins Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Situated on the ground floor with street-facing access, the property features a white-box minimal design with a custom wood four-panel storefront. The layout is suitable for a variety of uses, including retail, showrooms, art galleries, photo shoots, and offices. The interior is equipped with heating, air conditioning, and integrated lighting. Functional amenities include a custom kitchenette, a water closet, and an Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant bathroom. The property also features a garden area, a terrace, and an additional storage basement. For logistics, a cargo entrance is available, and the space is designated as handicap accessible. This versatile venue is also prepared for meetings, conferences, and food-related events. All mentioned features are available to support operational needs within this professional setting.
the fwv take
Book 320 Tompkins Avenue for a multi-week temporary retail run with a press day and content shoot folded into the same tenancy, because the combination of a cargo entrance, a full storage basement and a single street-level floor means you can trade, restock and shoot without ever breaking the room down, which is the operational reality most brands underestimate when they compare it to other spaces in New York.
The custom wood four-panel storefront is the feature doing the real work here, opening the front elevation wide enough to pull the interior onto the Bed-Stuy sidewalk for a launch evening and then closing back into a clean daylit white box for buyer appointments, while the rear garden and terrace absorb the overflow that a 1,500 square foot floor cannot hold once you pass 80 guests.
Honestly assessed, this is a home for independent and mid-scale contemporary labels rather than luxury maisons: denim, footwear, knitwear, natural skincare, jewellery and small-batch homeware brands three to eight years into trading, with a design-literate DTC audience and an aesthetic built on material and craft rather than gloss, chrome and spectacle.
In our experience the September New York Fashion Week window on this stretch of Brooklyn commits eight to ten weeks out and moves faster than February, and the operational quirk worth knowing before you enquire is transit: the Tompkins Avenue station name is historic, the practical access is the B43 bus and a ten minute walk from the nearest train, so build car service for press and buyers into your model with the budget calculator rather than discovering it during load-in.
what's included
- lighting
- wc
- whitebox minimal
- cargo entrance
- handicap accessible
- air conditioning
- bathroom
- complete kitchen
- heating
- ground floor street
- terrace
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how to book this space
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Check the shell and the dates
Review the gallery, 139 sqm floor plan and amenities for 1,500 SF Retail Space on Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn, then note the window you want in Brooklyn. 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. Pricing on this space is quoted on request.
- 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 Brooklyn.
- 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 Brooklyn.
use cases
location
getting here & street life
nearest transit
- Tompkins Avenue & Gates Avenuebus · B4321 m · 1 min
- Tompkins Avenue & Greene Avenuebus · B43233 m · 3 min
- Tompkins Avenue & Putman Avenuebus · B43262 m · 3 min
- Throop Avenue & Gates Avenuebus · B43272 m · 3 min
- Throop Avenue & Madison Streetbus · B43287 m · 4 min
- Throop Avenue & Jefferson Avenuebus · B43385 m · 5 min
the neighbourhood
The house situated on 87 MacDonough Street in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn has been included in the Bedford-Stuyvesant/Stuyvesant Heights Historic District since 1975. It is one of the oldest surviving structures in the neighborhood that dates back to its construction in 1863. It is currently owned by the United Order of Tents.
- Tompkins Avenue station (BMT Lexington Avenue Line) · 189 m
- Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn · 322 m
- Herbert Von King Park · 333 m
- Bed-Stuy Aquarium · 383 m
- Boys High School (Brooklyn) · 389 m
- Magnolia grandiflora (Brooklyn) · 452 m
frequently asked
Yes, 320 Tompkins Avenue is available for pop-up shops and is one of the more practical temporary retail options we hold in Brooklyn. You get 1,500 square feet on a single ground floor with street-facing access and a custom wood four-panel storefront that opens the front elevation onto the sidewalk. The white-box minimal interior takes fixtures, rails and graphics without fighting your merchandising, and the storage basement means you can restock without closing the floor. In our experience handling pop-up bookings on this stretch of Bed-Stuy, brands running two to six week trading periods get the strongest result here because the audience is local and repeat-driven rather than tourist-led. You can request availability for specific dates and we will confirm the window against the owner's calendar.
who it suits
Brand Scale
This 1,500 sq ft Bed-Stuy ground floor suits independent and mid-tier brands with a 5 to 30 person team, roughly 2 to 8 years of trading, and an established DTC customer base or a growing wholesale book. At 139 sqm across a single street-facing floor with a basement, a terrace and a garden, it holds a full seasonal collection, a fitting area and a back of house without feeling under-filled. Brands at this stage typically find the cargo entrance and storage basement remove the need for offsite logistics. Where we see mismatches is when a global house books it for a flagship-level moment, expecting Manhattan footfall and a 300 person capacity, or when a pre-revenue label with one capsule takes on a footprint they cannot merchandise. If either sounds familiar, compare it against other spaces in New York before enquiring.
Aesthetic Fit
A white-box minimal shell with a custom wood four-panel storefront reads best for brands built on material honesty and craft: contemporary ready-to-wear, denim, footwear, ceramics and homeware, natural skincare, jewellery, and archive or vintage curation. The neutral walls and integrated lighting take fixtures and graphics cleanly, so the product carries the room rather than the interior competing with it. Garden and terrace access adds a softer, domestic register that suits wellness and lifestyle positioning. What does not work here is high-gloss luxury maximalism, heavy chrome and mirror concepts, or a nightlife-driven streetwear drop that needs raw industrial volume and queue management. Brands needing more visual character usually build it in with furniture rental rather than fighting the shell.
Best Use Cases
First choice is a multi-week pop-up shop or temporary retail space, since street-level access on Tompkins Avenue, a compliant bathroom, kitchenette and basement storage cover everything a trading floor needs. Second is a fashion showroom or wholesale appointment setup, where the white-box layout and daylight support collection preview and buyer sessions with a quiet back area. Third is a press day or influencer event, helped by the terrace and garden for overflow and by an occupancy of around 150. Fourth is content studio use, including ecommerce shoots and video production, given the neutral walls, integrated lighting and cargo entrance for kit. Fifth is a sample sale or trunk show, where the cargo access and storage handle stock volume. Sixth is a gallery showing or pop-up exhibition, and seventh is workshops, cocktail receptions and team offsites, supported by our activation service when staffing and payments are needed.
Budget Signal
Expect mid-market pricing for New York, materially below equivalent square footage in SoHo, NoLIta or the Meatpacking District, and closer in tier to Greenpoint and Bushwick short-term commercial space. What you gain for that positioning is exclusive use of a whole ground floor with outdoor space, a kitchen and a basement, rather than a partitioned hotel event room or a co-working suite with shared circulation and a fixed layout. What you trade is walk-in volume: Bed-Stuy delivers a local, design-literate audience rather than tourist density, so the return case rests on invitations, community and content, not passing traffic. In our experience brands that model this honestly with the budget calculator before committing get a better result than those chasing a prime address they cannot afford to hold for more than a weekend.
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