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Daytime Pop-Up Coffee Venue on King Street.

50 m²
538 sq ft
newtown
AU
A$80 / day
per day
pop-up store
1 use case
city
Newtown
area
50 sqm
day rate
A$80 / day
postcode
use cases
pop up store · retail activation
included
Internet · Air Conditioning · Security System

about this space

This 50 square meter licensed venue on King Street is an excellent choice for a daytime pop-up coffee concept. The space is fully furnished and equipped with air conditioning, providing a comfortable environment for patrons. It includes a functional kitchen and toilet facilities, along with both indoor and outdoor seating areas. Ideal for baristas, coffee entrepreneurs, and emerging brands, this venue is ready for immediate use, allowing you to start serving right away.

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

  1. 01

    Check the shell and the dates

    Review the gallery, 50 sqm floor plan and amenities for Daytime Pop-Up Coffee Venue on King Street, then note the window you want in Newtown. Fashion week dates book 6–10 weeks out.

  2. 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 €50 per day.

  3. 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 Newtown.

  4. 04

    Lock the contract

    Sign the short-term licence, pay the deposit and we register any permit or signage paperwork the address needs.

  5. 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 Newtown.

use cases

pop up storeretail activation

location

plotting…
newtown·-33.9019° · 151.1791°

getting here & street life

nearest transit

  • Newtownrail · 204210443 m · 6 min
  • Erskinevillerail · 204310574 m · 7 min
  • St Petersrail · 204410617 m · 8 min
  • King St opp Camden Stbus · 20422811 m · 1 min
  • King St at Camden Stbus · 20423627 m · 1 min
  • King St at Holt Stbus · 204237195 m · 2 min

the neighbourhood

The New Theatre, formerly Workers' Art Club and New Theatre League, is a community theatre company in the Inner West Sydney suburb of Newtown, Australia. Its origins are in the international New Theatre movement of the 1920s, and it is the oldest theatre company in continuous production in New South Wales.

  • Newtown High School of the Performing Arts · 274 m
  • Sandringham Hotel, Newtown · 291 m
  • Newtown Tram Depot · 427 m
  • Newtown railway station, Sydney · 442 m
  • Stanmore House · 521 m

frequently asked

Yes — Daytime Pop-Up Coffee Venue on King Street is a vetted pop-up ready space in Newtown, 50 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing.

who it suits

Brand Scale

This space suits an owner-operated brand with a 2 to 10 person team, one to five years of trading, and an existing local or online customer base ready to be converted into a physical habit. At 50 square metres with a working kitchen, counters, stock room and toilet facilities already in place, it is sized for a single-concept operation rather than a full retail rollout, and the minimum term of roughly 168 days means it functions as a medium-term residency rather than a five-day fashion week venue. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this space is a coffee or food-led brand testing its first permanent site, or a lifestyle label pairing product with hospitality. Where we see mismatches is when a larger house with a 40 person team and a national wholesale calendar tries to use a basement level room like this for a press moment. Those brands should browse all spaces with shorter terms and street level frontage instead.

Aesthetic Fit

Warm, craft-led and hospitality-adjacent identities work best here: specialty coffee, bakery, natural wine, small-batch skincare, ceramics, vintage, streetwear and independent labels with a Newtown-facing customer. The venue arrives fully furnished with lighting, sound and video equipment, air conditioning and both indoor and outdoor seating, so the room already carries a lived-in character that rewards brands willing to layer into it rather than erase it. Fitting rooms and garment racks mean apparel sits comfortably alongside a service counter. What does not work is the polished white cube: a luxury brand needing gallery-grade blackout control, high ceilings, and a prestige address will find the basement level and the existing fit-out fighting its language. Heavily structural set builds are also a poor match, and brands wanting that look should start with branded store design in a shell space instead.

Best Use Cases

First choice is a daytime coffee or food pop-up concept, because the licence, functional kitchen, counters and indoor plus outdoor seating make the space tradeable from day one with no build period. Second is a hybrid temporary retail space where product sits behind the counter offer, supported by fitting rooms, garment racks and a stock room. Third is a sample sale or archive sale, since the room absorbs volume stock and King Street footfall plus bus stops at the door drive walk-in traffic. Fourth is a community-led brand activation with tasting or workshop programming, helped by the sound and video equipment already installed. Fifth is a content studio between trading hours, using the fitted interior as a standing set. Sixth, and weakest, is a press day venue or collection preview for wholesale appointments, as the basement level lacks the address signal buyers expect. For trading formats, budget for retail staffing from the outset.

Budget Signal

This sits at the accessible end of the Sydney inner west market and well below anything comparable in the CBD, Paddington or Surry Hills. For this tier a brand gets a fully equipped, licensed, furnished room with kitchen, air conditioning, wifi, security system, electricity and parking, which removes most of the fit-out spend that usually doubles a first activation budget. Compare that to a hotel event space charging a premium per hour, a prime commercial unit demanding a long lease and a bare shell, or a shared pop-up format where you control neither trading hours nor the room. The trade-off is honest: basement level, no prestige address, and a minimum term measured in months rather than days. Brands at this stage typically find the maths works only if they intend to trade consistently, and our budget calculator is the fastest way to confirm that before enquiring.

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edition
vol. iv · ss27
type
cormorant · plex mono
finish
gold foil 871c