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Prime Commercial Space for Lease in Wan Chai.

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tl;dr

Space
A 3,938 sq ft (366 sqm) two floor commercial unit for rent in Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, combining a 420 sq ft street level frontage under a 4.5 metre ceiling with a 3,518 sq ft first floor at 3 metres. The character is functional contemporary retail, already fitted with counters, garment racks and fitting rooms, so it arrives move-in ready rather than as a bare shell.
Best For
Strongest fit is a long run flagship retail activation or pop-up store using the ground floor to sell and the upper floor for stock and back of house. Also suited to a permanent fashion showroom with wholesale appointment and buyer preview rooms, press day venue and collection preview hosting, cocktail receptions and private brand events for up to 380 guests, and content studio or brand shoot use supported by the in-house sound and video equipment.
Standout Features
A 4.5 metre ground floor ceiling takes full height window graphics and suspended installations, which is rare at this rental price on Hong Kong Island. Further differentiators vetted by Fashion Week Venues include a passenger elevator linking both trading levels, an existing fit-out of counters, fitting rooms and garment racks, a dedicated stock room, a complete kitchen suitable for catering setup, plus towngas, drainage, air conditioning, security system and on-site parking.
Location
Wan Chai MTR is roughly a 4 minute walk, with Hong Kong Tramways stops on Johnston Road under 2 minutes away and Wan Chai Ferry Pier around 12 minutes on foot in the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong Island. The street is dense, high footfall Hong Kong retail, with Adidas, Skechers, Asics, Sasa and 6IXTY8IGHT inside 200 metres, so guests arrive into commercial energy and crews can load in from an active shopfront position.
Availability
Minimum term is 365 days at a day rate of HK$7,333 (approximately EUR 815), with a monthly management fee of HK$9,372 plus government rates and rent borne by the tenant. Book 8 to 12 weeks ahead in Hong Kong, and earlier around CENTRESTAGE in September and Art Basel Hong Kong in March when Wan Chai floorplates of this size tighten quickly; occupancy is subject to vacant possession and brief-based pricing applies to fit-out extras.
How to Book
Send your dates, guest numbers and activation format to request availability and our Hong Kong team will reply within 24h with hold options and a costed proposal. Permit paperwork, licensing, event staffing and fit-out coordination are handled by our team on the brand's behalf, with no charge until confirmed, so enquire now to place a hold on this Wan Chai space.
366 m²
3938 sq ft
hong kong
HK
HK$7,333 / day
per day
pop-up store
3 use cases
in short
A 3,938 sq ft (366 sqm) two floor commercial unit for rent in Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, combining a 420 sq ft street level frontage under a 4.5 metre ceiling with a 3,518 sq ft first floor at 3 metres. The character is functional contemporary retail, already fitted with counters, garment racks and fitting rooms, so…
city
Hong Kong
area
366 sqm
day rate
HK$7,333 / day
postcode
—
use cases
retail activation · pop up store · brand activation
included
Internet · Air Conditioning · Security System

about this space

This commercial space offers an exceptional marketable floor area of 3,938 square feet, with a ground floor size of 420 square feet and a first floor size of 3,518 square feet, featuring 60% efficiency. The space is equipped with essential amenities including electricity, plumbing, drainage, and towngas, ensuring readiness for various business operations. The ground floor has a ceiling height of 4.5 meters, while the first floor has a ceiling height of 3 meters, providing a spacious environment. Additional features include a kitchen, air conditioning, a security system, a stock room, counters, fitting rooms, lighting, furniture, sound and video equipment, heating, parking, and an elevator. This property is located in the bustling Wan Chai area, known for its business and entertainment offerings, making it a fitting location for those looking to establish or expand their commercial presence. The management fee is $9,372.00 per month, with government rates and rent borne by the tenant and subject to revision. Availability is subject to vacant possession.

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

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how to book this space

  1. 01

    Check the shell and the dates

    Review the gallery, 366 sqm floor plan and amenities for Prime Commercial Space for Lease in Wan Chai, then note the window you want in Hong Kong. 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 €837 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 Hong Kong.

  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 Hong Kong.

use cases

retail activationpop up storebrand activationprivate eventcocktail receptionworkshopcreative workshop

location

plotting…
hong kong·22.2758° · 114.1728°

what's around

11 stores within 600 m, incl. JHC 真好城; JHC, 7-Eleven, 必勝客 Pizza Hut

brands nearby

JHC 真好城; JHC7-Eleven必勝客 Pizza Hut莎莎 SasaSkechersPandoraTeslaAdidas三聯書店 Joint PublishingPorscheHouse of Madison6IXTY8IGHT灣仔電腦城 Wanchai Computer Center仟輝珠寶 Chin Fai Jewellery
fashion stores
4
jewellery & watches
2
beauty
3
department stores
1
design & interiors
1
culture
1
cafés
7
restaurants & bars
17
other retail
24
  • 茶狼 Cha Long40 m
  • 金鳳茶餐廳 Kam Fung Cafe40 m
  • JHC 真好城; JHC50 m
  • 7-Eleven60 m
  • 必勝客 Pizza Hut70 m
  • 莎莎 Sasa70 m

the neighbourhood

Wholesale garment suppliers, tailors, lighting and interiors showrooms, coffee roasters, small production agencies and a steady layer of independent Hong Kong labels are the working occupants of this stretch of Wan Chai, and they sit closer together than most brand teams expect. Walk the southern side of Queen's Road East and you move through appointment-only showroom territory, with Porsche Centre Hong Kong, Tesla, XPENG and McLaren holding street level alongside design operators such as House of Madison. Turn north into Tai Yuen Street and Spring Garden Lane and the register changes completely to trade suppliers, fabric and haberdashery stockists, toy wholesalers and market stalls that have not moved in decades. Star Street precinct and Lee Tung Avenue carry the polished retail and cafe end a few minutes west, while the Hong Kong Arts Centre and the restored Mallory Street tong lau block anchor the cultural side. In our experience placing brands in this neighbourhood, Wan Chai works for teams who want a functioning commercial address with real back of house, which is why it reads well for showroom rental, press day location and buyer appointment venue briefs rather than pure image plays. Fashion and sportswear neighbours including Adidas, Asics, Skechers and 6IXTY8IGHT confirm the accessible-contemporary tilt of the immediate blocks.

Floor area is the reason brands land here instead of Central or Causeway Bay, and this address makes the argument plainly at 3,938 sq ft over two levels for a rate that would secure a single narrow shopfront on Duddell Street, inside Landmark, or along Fashion Walk. Central buys you luxury adjacency and finance-hour traffic while pricing out any activation that needs stock rooms, styling space and a second floor. Causeway Bay delivers volume and mainland shopper numbers with a saturation level that flattens brand storytelling. Tsim Sha Tsui and Canton Road sit across the harbour from most Hong Kong Island press, agency and buyer routines, which costs you attendance on invite-only formats. The genuine Wan Chai advantage is the Convention Centre corridor: Art Basel Hong Kong, CENTRESTAGE and trade weeks pull international buyers and press into the Grand Hyatt and Renaissance Harbour View within a ten minute walk, and Wan Chai MTR plus the Admiralty interchange keep arrivals uncomplicated. What Wan Chai does not give you is Central's automatic luxury signal, and the 365 day minimum term here rules out short seasonal formats. Model both districts side by side with our city compare tool before committing.

Arrivals on this block feel commercial and local rather than curated, and brand teams should brief guests accordingly. The 420 sq ft ground floor frontage with 4.5 metre ceilings functions best as a controlled reception and window moment, with the 3,518 sq ft first floor above, reached by stairs and lift, carrying the actual programme as showroom space, sample sale space, content studio or fashion presentation space. Mornings bring delivery trolleys, market traders setting up and office workers cutting toward Johnston Road and the tram stops. The 12.30 to 14.00 window is the heaviest rhythm on the pavement, driven by Kam Fung Cafe, Tai Cheong and Cupping Room within a minute's walk, then it settles into a mixed after-work and residential flow through the evening. What we consistently hear from brand teams who activate here is that appointments run quietly and on schedule because nobody is fighting crowds to reach the door, and our production and build crews treat the upper floor as the hero volume. Honest limitation: with a modest frontage, an upper-floor main space and a one year minimum, this is not the address for tourist-facing retail, spontaneous walk-in conversion or brands whose activation depends on maximum street visibility. Those briefs belong elsewhere, and we would point you toward other options when you browse all spaces.

getting here & street life

nearest transit

  • 灣仔 Wan Chaimetro · WAC196 m · 2 min
  • 柯布連道 O'Brien Roadtram · 43E91 m · 1 min
  • 汕頭街 Swatow Streettram · 58W96 m · 1 min
  • 盧押道 Luard Roadtram · 41E106 m · 1 min
  • 菲林明道 Fleming Roadtram · 45E296 m · 4 min
  • 機利臣街 Gresson Streettram · 60W302 m · 4 min

street activity

high footfall.

49 places within 200 m · 35 stores · 24 cafés and restaurants

within 200 m
49
within 400 m
60
within 600 m
60

the neighbourhood

Lee Tung Street, known as the Wedding Card Street by locals, is a street in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. The street was famed in Hong Kong and abroad as a centre for publishing and for the manufacturing of wedding cards and other similar items.

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frequently asked

Yes — Prime Commercial Space for Lease in Wan Chai is a vetted pop-up ready space in Hong Kong, 366 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing.

who it suits

Brand Scale

This space suits an established mid-market to upper-mid brand with a 20 to 100 person team, five or more years of trading, and either an existing Asia-Pacific distribution network or a serious intention to build one. At 3,938 sq ft across two floors, with a 420 sq ft ground floor frontage feeding a 3,518 sq ft first floor, this is not a space you fill with one capsule collection. The minimum lease term of 365 days makes that explicit: this is a long-lease commitment in a short-term commercial space market, so the brands that get value here are those treating Wan Chai as a flagship or regional base rather than a one-week fashion week venue. In our experience the profile that gets the most from this configuration is a brand running retail on the ground floor while using the upper level as a fashion showroom, wholesale appointment suite and stock operation simultaneously. Where we see mismatches is when a 3 to 10 person independent label enquires expecting a pop-up shop commitment. They end up paying for square footage and a management fee they cannot activate, and would be better served by browsing all spaces with shorter lease flexibility. Equally, a global luxury maison seeking a pure Central or Causeway Bay address will find Wan Chai positioned differently from their existing store network.

Aesthetic Fit

Contemporary streetwear, performance sportswear, lifestyle apparel and accessible premium accessories read most naturally here. The 4.5 metre ground floor ceiling gives you genuine vertical room for large-format graphics, suspended installations or a full-height window statement, while the 3 metre first floor is a calmer, lower-ceilinged environment that suits merchandised rails, fitting rooms and seated appointment areas. The existing fit-out of counters, fitting rooms, garment racks, lighting and furniture supports a clean, functional retail language rather than a heavily atmospheric one. The immediate neighbours reinforce this reading: Adidas, Skechers, Asics, 6IXTY8IGHT and Sasa sit within 200 metres, which tells you the street reads as accessible and high-traffic rather than rarefied. What does not work is quiet luxury and high jewellery presentation that depends on hushed adjacency and controlled arrival. A brand built on gallery-like emptiness will struggle with a 60 percent efficiency floorplate and a basement-level designation, and would be better matched through a considered branded store design approach in a different neighbourhood entirely.

Best Use Cases

First choice is a long-run flagship retail activation, because the two-floor split lets the 420 sq ft ground floor operate as a high-conversion sell space while the 3,518 sq ft above absorbs stock room, kitchen and back-of-house functions without eating trading area. Second is a permanent fashion showroom and wholesale appointment base, where the elevator, air conditioning, garment racks and fitting rooms already remove most of the fit-out cost from buyer season. Third is a combined press day venue and collection preview, with the upper floor holding a full seasonal hang and the ground floor handling arrival and check-in. Fourth is a content studio and photography base, supported by existing sound and video equipment, controllable lighting and a stock room that doubles as a styling and prep area. Fifth is cocktail receptions and private brand events, where the occupancy estimate of around 380 and the elevator access make circulation workable across both levels. Sixth is creative workshops and consumer-facing retail experience programming, which the kitchen and seating capacity support directly. Seventh is sample sale space, viable but the weakest fit given the lease length relative to a two-day format.

Budget Signal

This sits in the mid tier of Hong Kong Island commercial leasing, meaningfully below Central, Causeway Bay prime and Queen's Road East ground-floor frontage, while offering considerably more usable volume than either. Brands at this stage typically find the value equation is about total square footage rather than per-square-foot address prestige. A hotel event space in Wan Chai or Admiralty will cost more per day for a fraction of the floor area and none of the fit-out you already have here in counters, racking, fitting rooms and AV. A co-working or shared pop-up format will be cheaper but gives you no frontage, no stock control and no ability to hold a full seasonal collection on site. Against a prime Central storefront, you are trading footfall quality for roughly three times the floor area and a full second level. Factor in the monthly management fee plus government rates and rent borne by the tenant when you model this, and run the numbers properly through our budget calculator before committing to the 365 day minimum. The brands that win here are the ones counting square metres, not postcodes.

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