Versatile 4,100 Square Foot Industrial Space in Chicago.
about this space
This 4,100-square-foot (381-square-meter) industrial property is located at 3300 North Knox Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Recently renovated in 2024, the space is suitable for various commercial uses, including industrial operations, warehouse storage, and office requirements. It is also categorized for use as a conference space, event venue, gallery, meeting room, photo studio, retail location, or showroom. Situated on the ground floor with street-level access, the property features an industrial aesthetic with integrated lighting and natural daylight. The interior is equipped with essential technical amenities, including air conditioning and wifi. The layout includes a bathroom for onsite use. This versatile property offers a functional environment for businesses seeking flexible space in the United States. All features described are based on the provided technical specifications to support diverse business needs within a professional setting.
the fwv take
Take 3300 North Knox Avenue for a multi-day sample sale, showroom sale or wholesale appointment run rather than a footfall-led pop-up, because 4,100 square feet arranged on a single ground floor with direct street access lets you zone rails, fitting areas, queue holding and back-of-house stock in one uninterrupted run with no goods lift or dock slot to negotiate.
What makes this address work for that use is the 2024 renovation, which left the industrial envelope intact while adding integrated lighting, air conditioning and real daylight, so a collection delivery and fixture drop can land kerbside on the same morning and an ecommerce shoot can run against existing walls with minimal rigging and a much lighter production and build scope than a bare shell would demand.
The brand fit is established mid-market and contemporary, roughly five years or more into trading, working in denim, outerwear, streetwear, technical sportswear, footwear or homeware, categories with enough physical volume to hold a raw industrial room; soft luxury, fine jewellery and formal eveningwear will spend their entire budget covering a surface that was never going to flatter them, and we would say so before you booked.
Chicago runs shorter lead times than the European capitals, so six to eight weeks is workable, though late spring and the pre-holiday sample sale window fill first for large-format space and dates get held quickly, and in our experience the quirk to price in before enquiring is the quiet Hermosa setting, where guests arrive by car or a three minute walk from the Belmont bus stops, meaning your reach plan and influencer marketing spend need to be timed alongside the venue hold.
what's included
- daylight
- industrial
- lighting
- air conditioning
- bathroom
- wifi
- ground floor street
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how to book this space
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Check the shell and the dates
Review the gallery, 381 sqm floor plan and amenities for Versatile 4,100 Square Foot Industrial Space in Chicago, then note the window you want in Chicago. Fashion week dates book 6–10 weeks out.
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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.
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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 Chicago.
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Lock the contract
Sign the short-term licence, pay the deposit and we register any permit or signage paperwork the address needs.
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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 Chicago.
activation ideas
Fashion Sample Sale
This is the strongest use of the address, because 4,100 square feet on one ground floor with direct street-level access lets you run rails, fitting bays, queue holding and back-of-house stock in a single uninterrupted flow. Brands running sample sales in spaces like this typically dedicate around 2,400 square feet to selling floor and hold the rest for restock and till banks. With occupancy at roughly 400 you can trade real volume, provided you brief retail staffing at floor and door.
SS/AW Seasonal Showroom
Works well as a seasonal showroom rental because the single-level 381 square meter footprint zones into rail runs, a seated presentation area and a stock room without building partition walls. Air conditioning and wifi make eight-hour market days workable, and daylight means buyers see fabric and colour accurately. Brands usually hold the space by the week so the fit-out stays installed across the full buying window, which our activation timeline maps against your market dates.
Buyer Appointments and Collection Preview
Credible for wholesale appointment schedules, mainly because street-level loading means a full collection delivery lands kerbside without a goods lift booking. In practice the volume lets you run two appointments in parallel at opposite ends of the room without either group overhearing the other, which matters when you are showing exclusives. Plan for six to eight buyer slots a day comfortably. The quiet Hermosa setting is an advantage here, since appointments are scheduled rather than discovered.
Press Day and Media Preview
A workable press day venue if your list is genuinely large, because the room reads sparse below about 80 guests and settles at 120 to 200. The industrial shell plus integrated lighting gives editors and stylists clean backdrops for their own capture, and daylight supports morning press hours without additional rigging. There is no fitted kitchen, so catering arrives externally. Brief guests on driving and parking, as the surrounding streets are residential.
E-commerce and Editorial Shoot
Works strongly as a short-term content studio, since the industrial surfaces and natural daylight let you shoot against existing walls with minimal set build. Teams typically split the space into one shoot zone, one wardrobe and styling zone and a client viewing corner, all within the 381 square meters. Expect a crew of 10 to 15 to work without treading on each other. Bookable by the day, and often paired with a press day so one fit-out earns twice.
Video Production
Suits video work because ceiling volume and an uninterrupted ground floor run allow dolly moves and multiple set positions in one hold. Street-level access takes grip, lighting and camera trucks straight in, which is the practical reason production teams choose industrial stock like this over upper-floor studios. Air conditioning keeps talent and kit stable across long days. Sound is the constraint worth knowing, as the room is hard-surfaced and will need blankets or treatment for dialogue.
Product Launch and Brand Activation
Works for an experiential launch where you want a build rather than a polished existing interior, since the raw envelope takes fixtures, structures and projection without you first covering a finished surface. The single level keeps crowd flow simple, with a natural sequence from street entry through a reveal zone to a bar or trial area. For an evening cocktail reception, 150 to 250 guests reads correctly. Audio and bar infrastructure are brought in.
Influencer Event and Content Creation Day
Effective for creator programming because the volume allows four or five distinct set builds in one room, so a group of 20 to 40 invitees can rotate through capture stations without queueing. What makes this work specifically is daylight combined with integrated lighting, meaning content holds up across an afternoon without a full lighting package. Given quiet local footfall, this is an invitation-led format, so seed the guest list two to three weeks out.
Gallery Showing and Pop-Up Exhibition
A genuine fit for exhibition use, since wall run, ceiling height and daylight matter more than street prestige for a ticketed or invited showing. The 4,100 square feet supports roughly 30 to 45 hung works plus floor pieces, with room for a reception desk and an opening-night bar. Temporary walls and plinths install cleanly against the industrial shell, and our production and build team handles hanging systems and reinstatement.
Workshop, Masterclass and Networking Evening
Adequate to strong for teaching and trade formats, depending on numbers. A hands-on creative workshop seats 30 to 60 at tables with material stations along one wall, while a seated masterclass takes 100 upward with clear sightlines given the open floor. Wifi and air conditioning cover the basics for a full day. For a networking evening, plan 120 plus, because smaller groups will feel dispersed in a room of this size.
use cases
location
what's around
8 places within 600 m, incl. Tony's Fresh Market, Baskin-Robbins, Citgo
brands nearby
- cafés
- 1
- restaurants & bars
- 3
- other retail
- 4
- Tony's Fresh Market70 m
- Breakfast House300 m
- Taqueria y Restaurant Poncitlan380 m
- Astoria520 m
- Baskin-Robbins530 m
- Citgo590 m
getting here & street life
nearest transit
- Graylandrail740 m · 9 min
- Belmont & Kilpatrickbus · 9324212 m · 3 min
- Belmont & Knoxbus · 9263226 m · 3 min
- Cicero & Schoolbus · 10326296 m · 4 min
- Belmont & Cicerobus · 14634349 m · 4 min
- Cicero & Roscoebus · 15479366 m · 5 min
street activity
quiet street.
1 places within 200 m · 4 stores · 4 cafés and restaurants
- within 200 m
- 1
- within 400 m
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- within 600 m
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the neighbourhood
The Hermosa Bungalow Historic District is a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in the Hermosa community area on the northwest side of Chicago. The district is roughly bounded by W. Belmont Avenue to the north, N. Lowell Avenue to the east, W. Diversey Avenue to the south, and N. Kolmar Avenue to the west. The district's contributing properties include 298 bungalows, 15 brick multi-unit apartment buildings, 8 brick two-flats, 3 garages, and Barry Elementary School.
frequently asked
Yes, this 4,100 square foot ground floor space at 3300 North Knox Avenue is available for pop-up shops, and it is listed for pop-up store and retail activation use. The honest caveat is that Hermosa is a quiet residential pocket on Chicago's northwest side, so a pop-up here works when you are driving your own audience to the address rather than relying on passing trade. In our experience handling bookings at industrial addresses like this, brands that pair the space with an email list, paid reach and clear street signage see far stronger results than those expecting walk-ins. If organic discovery is the primary objective, tell us in your brief and we will also show you higher-traffic corridors before you commit.
who it suits
Brand Scale
This space fits established mid-market and contemporary brands with a 15 to 60 person team, five or more years of trading, and either a national wholesale book or a DTC business doing meaningful volume. At 4,100 square feet on a single ground floor with street access, it is too much room for a two-person label to fill credibly and too far from Fulton Market or the Loop to trade on walk-in traffic alone, which means the brand using it needs an owned audience it can direct here. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this space is a brand running a multi-day programme, such as a sample sale with queue management or a press day feeding into a content shoot, where the square footage is doing several jobs across a week rather than one. Where we see mismatches is when a young label with a 300 person mailing list books a footprint of this size and ends up staging 800 square feet while paying for 4,100. Larger heritage houses looking for downtown adjacency and concierge-level building services should look at other spaces in New York or central Chicago instead.
Aesthetic Fit
Industrial, utilitarian and workwear-adjacent identities land here with almost no build required. The recently renovated 2024 shell, exposed industrial character, integrated lighting and natural daylight suit denim, outerwear, streetwear, technical sportswear, footwear, homeware and furniture, and independent art or photography programming. Product categories with volume and physical presence read well against a raw envelope, and the daylight makes it workable as a content studio without heavy rigging. What does not work is soft luxury. If your brand language is polished stone, mirrored vitrines, gilt detailing and low intimate lighting, this space will fight you and you will spend the majority of your budget covering the base fabric rather than building an idea on top of it. Fine jewellery and formal eveningwear generally need a different envelope. Brands that want to keep the shell and layer identity through fixtures and modular systems should scope production and build early, because the volume rewards a considered plan rather than an improvised one.
Best Use Cases
First choice is a fashion sample sale or showroom sale. The 4,100 square feet absorbs rails, fitting areas, queueing and stock in one ground floor run with street-level access for deliveries, and an occupancy allowance of around 400 supports genuine volume. Second is a wholesale showroom and collection preview across a buying period, where the daylight, air conditioning and wifi make long appointment days workable and the footprint allows separate seating, rail and back-of-house zones. Third is content creation, ecommerce shoots and video production, since the industrial surfaces and natural light reduce set spend considerably. Fourth is a press day or influencer event, best paired with an owned invitation list rather than passing trade given the quiet Hermosa footfall grade. Fifth is a product launch or brand activation with an evening cocktail reception, supported by the single-level layout and simple crowd flow. Sixth is a gallery showing, pop-up exhibition or exhibition opening, where wall run and ceiling volume matter more than address. Seventh is a workshop, masterclass or corporate offsite. A retail pop-up shop dependent on organic footfall ranks last, and if that is the objective we would redirect you through venue sourcing toward a higher-traffic corridor.
Budget Signal
This sits in the value tier for large-format temporary retail space in Chicago, materially below Fulton Market, West Loop and Michigan Avenue equivalents on a per square foot basis. What you are buying is volume and operational freedom rather than address prestige, and for sample sales, wholesale appointments and production days that trade is usually the right one. Compared with a hotel event space you get multi-day continuity, no food and beverage minimums and no restrictions on fixtures or dressing. Compared with co-working or shared pop-up formats you get exclusive use, controlled branding and no shared calendar. Compared with a prime commercial storefront you accept lower passing traffic in exchange for roughly three to four times the square footage for a comparable spend. Brands weighing this against a smaller high-street unit should model both scenarios through our budget calculator before enquiring, because the honest answer depends entirely on whether your audience is being invited or discovered.
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