Caribbean-Style Commercial Space in Downtown Lauderhill.
tl;dr
- Space
- A 279 sqm (3,000 sq ft) ground floor commercial space for rent in downtown Lauderhill, Florida, finished in a Caribbean-inspired palette with street level frontage and an open multi-use layout. The venue is vetted by Fashion Week Venues and holds up to 290 guests as a pop-up store, showroom space or brand activation space.
- Best For
- Strongest fit is a temporary retail pop-up shop or product launch using the street level entrance, followed by cocktail receptions and experiential marketing nights built around the full bar. Also available to hire for creative workshops and masterclasses, corporate networking events and team offsites, and small collection previews or wholesale appointment days.
- Standout Features
- A full kitchen with an integrated full bar means catering and beverage service run in house rather than being trucked in, and a dedicated VIP section gives buyer previews or press hosting a separate zone within the same floor. Other differentiators include professional lighting rigged across the main floor, a fixed non-movable pool table that anchors social programming, step-free handicap accessible entry from the pavement, ducted air conditioning throughout, and on-site WC facilities, making the venue move-in ready for short-term rental.
- Location
- Downtown Lauderhill, postcode 33311, sits on a Broward County arterial with Broward County Transit stops within a 3 to 5 minute walk and roughly 20 minutes by car to Fort Lauderdale city centre and 25 minutes to Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport. The immediate street is low rise commercial with kerbside loading directly outside, so crews can unload at the door and guests arrive at ground level without stairs or lobby queues.
- Availability
- Day rate is on request and pricing is brief-based, shaped by activation length, guest count and bar or catering requirements. Minimum rental is one day, you can book by the day or book by the week, and we advise four to six weeks lead time in South Florida, extending to eight weeks for the December Art Basel Miami window and the January to March peak season when spaces at this address typically book earliest.
- How to Book
- Enquire with your dates, guest numbers and activation format and we reply within 24h with confirmed availability and a costed proposal, with no charge until confirmed. Permit paperwork, event staffing and fit-out coordination are handled by our team on the brand's behalf, so request availability now to hold your dates.
about this space
This 279-square-meter commercial space is located in downtown Lauderhill, Florida. The venue is designed with a Caribbean-inspired aesthetic and is situated on the ground floor with street-level access. The interior features a versatile layout suitable for bar, retail, office, or meeting use. It includes a non-movable large pool table, a dedicated VIP section, and a full kitchen equipped with a full bar. Functional amenities integrated into the space include air conditioning, professional lighting, and a bathroom with a water closet. The premises are handicap accessible to accommodate various operational needs. This 3,000-square-foot property offers a professional environment for businesses seeking a multi-use facility in the United States. All features described are based on the provided specifications for this professional setting.
what's included
- lighting
- wc
- handicap accessible
- air conditioning
- bathroom
- ground floor street
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how to book this space
- 01
Check the shell and the dates
Review the gallery, 279 sqm floor plan and amenities for Caribbean-Style Commercial Space in Downtown Lauderhill, then note the window you want in Lauderhill. 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 Lauderhill.
- 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 Lauderhill.
use cases
location
the neighbourhood
Caribbean food brands, independent Jamaican and Trinidadian designers, barbers and beauty operators, event promoters, church and community media crews and a steady layer of small business owners run the commercial life here, and they do it from strip plazas and ground floor units rather than from polished showroom clusters. The working corridors are State Road 7 and Sunrise Boulevard, with NW 19th Street and the blocks around Lauderhill Mall carrying most of the everyday retail energy, while the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center and Central Broward Park pull in cultural programming, cricket crowds and diaspora events that no other pocket of Broward can replicate. In our experience placing brands in this neighbourhood, the ecosystem is entrepreneurial rather than agency driven, which means fewer creative studios and more owner operators who will collaborate directly with you on a product launch, a workshop or a pop up shop. Brands comparing this against other US options usually shortlist it alongside more conventional markets when they browse all spaces and want cultural specificity rather than gloss.
Cost per square metre and cultural credibility are the two reasons brands choose Lauderhill over Wynwood, the Miami Design District, Brickell or Las Olas Boulevard, and both reasons hold up under scrutiny. A 279 sqm ground floor unit with a full kitchen, bar and VIP section costs a fraction of a comparable Wynwood shell that would still need a full build before you open the doors, and Broward permitting timelines are generally more forgiving than Miami Dade for temporary retail and licensed events. What you gain is authentic reach into the Caribbean American audience across Lauderhill, Lauderdale Lakes, Plantation and North Lauderdale, plus easy driving access from Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport in around twenty minutes. What you do not gain is tourist spillover, press proximity or the walk by discovery that Wynwood and South Beach deliver by default. Teams who accept that tradeoff and invest in the guest list and paid reach get strong results, and we usually run the numbers with clients using the budget calculator before committing to a build.
Arriving here means arriving by car, and the block reads as functional commercial rather than boutique, with street level entry, surface parking and a rhythm set by local errands rather than leisure strolling. Mornings are quiet and mostly service traffic, early afternoons pick up with lunch and school runs, and the real density comes Thursday through Saturday evenings and again on Sunday when church and community events fill the surrounding plazas. The interior does the heavy lifting, since the Caribbean styling, bar, kitchen and VIP zone let you host a cocktail reception, a masterclass, a sample sale or a brand shoot without importing a full production kit, though we still recommend layering in proper lighting and staffing through our activation service. Honest note: this is not the address for high volume tourist retail, spontaneous walk in traffic or brands that need luxury adjacency and passing press. If your model depends on strangers noticing your window, look elsewhere. If you are inviting people, this works.
getting here & street life
nearest transit
- Northwest 38th Avenue/Northwest 19th Streetbus · 4064 m · 1 min
- Northwest 38th Avenue/# 1802bus · 40163 m · 2 min
- Northwest 38th Avenue/# 1797bus · 40164 m · 2 min
- State Road 7 & 1700 Blockbus · 5478241 m · 3 min
- Northwest 19th Street/Northwest 36th Terracebus · 40249 m · 3 min
- State Road 7 & Northwest 19th Streetbus · 3884253 m · 3 min
the neighbourhood
The University of Fort Lauderdale (UFTL) is a private Christian university in Lauderhill, Florida, United States. Founded in 1995, the school offers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees and has a mission statement of being a "premier Christian institution of higher learning empowering future leaders through higher educational degrees rooted in Biblical principles". UFTL co-founder Henry B. Fernandez leads the school as chancellor and CEO.
frequently asked
Yes — Caribbean-Style Commercial Space in Downtown Lauderhill is a vetted pop-up ready space in Lauderhill, 279 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing.
who it suits
Brand Scale
This space fits a regionally established brand with a 5 to 25 person team, roughly 2 to 8 years of trading, and an existing South Florida customer base or Caribbean and diaspora community following. At 279 square metres across a single ground floor plate, it carries enough volume for a full retail floor plus a hospitality zone, which is more than a first-year DTC label can fill credibly and less international footfall than a global house would need to justify a activation calendar slot. The full kitchen, full bar and VIP section mean the operating model here is community and event led rather than pure product sell-through, so the brands that get the most from it are ones already running their own guest lists, launches and member nights. Where we see mismatches is when a solo founder books a floor this large for a weekend sample sale and ends up merchandising to fill space rather than to sell. Luxury groups requiring flagship-adjacent addresses should look at our spaces in New York instead.
Aesthetic Fit
The Caribbean-inspired interior suits brands with warmth, colour and cultural specificity in their DNA: resortwear, swim, streetwear with island heritage, Afro-Caribbean beauty and haircare, rum and spirits, music-adjacent merch and lifestyle labels built around community identity. The palette and bar-led layout do the storytelling for you, which cuts build cost significantly and lets a brand lean into styling rather than construction. What does not work here is cold minimalism. A brand built on white cube neutrality, raw concrete, or quiet luxury tailoring will fight the room the entire booking and end up paying to hide features it cannot remove, including the fixed pool table. Brands at this stage typically find it cheaper to choose a space whose character already matches the collection, and if a hard reset is genuinely required our production and build team will tell you honestly whether the overlay is worth the spend.
Best Use Cases
First choice is a launch party or cocktail reception with retail attached, because the full bar, kitchen and VIP section let you host and sell in the same footprint without external catering infrastructure. Second is a multi-week pop-up shop or temporary retail space, supported by ground floor street-level access, air conditioning and professional lighting for evening trade. Third is experiential marketing and content capture, where the styled interior gives a ready-made backdrop for a content studio day without set build. Fourth is a workshop, masterclass or creative session, since the layout zones cleanly between demonstration and seated areas. Fifth is a networking event or corporate team offsite, helped by handicap accessible entry and washroom facilities. Sixth is a press day or wholesale appointment format, workable but lower ranked because the space reads social rather than clinical for line reviews. Seventh is a sample sale, which functions but underuses the hospitality assets.
Budget Signal
Priced on request and positioned in the accessible-to-mid tier for the greater Fort Lauderdale market, well below Miami Beach or Design District commercial rates for equivalent square footage. What you are buying is fitted hospitality infrastructure at a retail price point: a full bar and kitchen already installed, lighting rigged, climate controlled and street accessible. A hotel event space in Broward or Miami will charge a premium and impose catering minimums; a co-working venue gives you a room with no license potential and no retail frontage; shared pop-up formats give you a corner and someone else's brand adjacency. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this tier is a brand running a longer booking of two weeks or more, where the saved build and catering cost compounds. Model the difference honestly using our budget calculator before committing.
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