Industry Showroom - A DIY Creative Business and Art Space- Gaslamp Quarter / East Village- San Diego - Downtown
Retail Outlet and Wholesale HQ in the Gaslamp Quarter/East Village border for Creative Entrepreneurs
Industry Showroom is a unique small business incubator space that focuses on art, fashion, and design. It provides a common area retail floor, an art gallery with monthly opening nights, a yoga studio, an event facility, a photo studio, and private offices where an entrepreneur can actually close their doors and get some work done.
It’s a new paradigm in collaborative spaces, a capitalist commune that allows small businesses to launch, grow, and flourish in a vibrant community environment for a fraction of the normal start up costs.
Industry Showroom is a unique small business incubator space that focuses on art, fashion, and design. With a common area retail floor that constantly changes as it plays host to local designers and creative entrepreneurs, an art gallery that presents “First Friday” opening nights to meet and mix with the artists, Urban Yogi yoga studio, an event facility, a photo studio, DCompress Downtown massage, So Diego Tours and more.
We make it possible for small businesses to launch, grow, and flourish in a vibrant community environment for a fraction of the normal start up costs.
Local clothing brands Popular Naughty, Consuul Clothing, Stacie May, BritBoy Fashions, Jojo Electro, Touch of Shine, Melt Boutique and Flex Watches also call Industry Showroom their base. Don’t miss our monthly Bohemian Market where we bring in a dozen other designers and artists to show for a Saturday shopping event.
Retail Floor and Gallery open to the public Tues - Sat 11 to 7pm
345 6th Ave between J and K,
CONCEPT
There are a ton of new businesses starting at kitchen tables and being operated out of garages that need to expand and get more exposure. The jump from garage to full blown store and all of the expenses that come with it are usually too great of a leap.
Industry Showroom is here to bridge that gap.
Shared office spaces are hardly a new concept, there are hundreds of office suites in San Diego. Our concept builds on that basic premise, yet Industry Showroom also shares traits with shared retail spaces like Leaping Lotus in Solana Beach.
With our space you get retail floorspace and a private office and/or workshop. Our concept gives you what you really need to grow a business. Rents range from $650 for display space to $1100 for an enormous office with counters, shelving, storage, AND retail display space. Internet, electricity, water, and other misc. expenses that can nickel and dime a small business owner to death are all included. You won't have to sweat the little things, we do that for you. You can focus on your design, wholesale operations, internet sales, and your on-site retail sales.
Combine that with a community seminar space (which rents for a great price by the way), the Bohemian Market creative community village of pop up shops, an art gallery with monthly events. a photography room, a podcast station, a fine art screen print studio, and a curated showfloor of local design talent... you have it all! It's like "Empire DEPOT" for those that wish to build their creative empire by hand.
It's the smart way
to build your brand.
Industry Showroom in San Diego
Shopping in Downtown San Diego! We host a large number of local designers, t-shirt lines, artist and other creatives. Our retail floor is designed to be fluid and constantly interesting, we home you continue to come discover the creative output we work to provide for gift-giving and personal enjoyment in San Diego.
For the public it's a shopping extravaganza. Shopping for art in the Gaslamp Quarter? Industry Showroom! Shopping for design items in the Gasamp Quarter? Industry Showroom! Shopping for fashion in the Gaslamp Quarter? Well, duh... Industry Showroom.
For Property Owners,
it's a way to breathe new life into your property while waiting for the perfect long-term tenant. Our month to month incubator concept does good things for the small business community while providing income on vacant downtown San Diego properties.
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The retail floor of Industry Showroom and Sudden Art Gallery opens up to reveal a warehouse full of crafts, fashion, art, handiworks, and unique merchandise at this monthly collaboration in our mysterious creative space on 6th Avenue between J and K in downtown San Diego.
Popular Naughty, Stacie May, BritBoy Fashions, Consuul Clothing, Melt Boutique (for Zakka), Area 6, Sweetie Cakes, X Kitten Swimwear, and 14 other mystery guests! FREE GIFTS, Surprise Fashion Show, Complimentary Nika Water, DJ, and drink specials across the street with LIVE ART on the patio, and LIVE SCREENPRINTING by CONSUUL in front of INDUSTRY SHOWROOM. LIVE ART WITH RICH WALKER and your last chance to see the art from our Womans Only Art Show.
The Bohemian Market is by and for the future of San Diego's creative design and fashion community. Kill the Bohemian Market, before it spreads.
Hi.
Welcome to Industry Showroom in downtown San Diego.
What is it?
Simple.
A big, artistic space with shared offices, a conference room, art gallery and creative industry/fashion retail floor. Get it? Cool. Come by and check it out. OR proceed to explanation 2.
Explanation 2: This is an 8,000 sq foot industial loft situated right between the Gaslamp Quarter and East Village. It was built out by the Hard Rock Hotel for when they had their sales office here. So I took it on (Rex Edhlund) with a partner (Sheila LeMire) and rented out the private rooms to other creative entrepreneurs. THEN, I put together a retail floor for the fashion and design we create and collaborate on. An Art Gallery finishes the place out. Voila! A cool downtown shared creative space.
But wait... we also have a room you can rent daily for private events and/or conferences. PLUS we have a photography/video studio.
I know, it's a lot and it isn't a simple answer.
But it's not for simple people. It's for the creative.
Our unique, interesting space on 6th Avenue next to the Culy Trucking Event Center, 2 blocks from the Convention Center, and nestled in between the ballpark and the Gaslamp Quarter has space for you.
We are surrounded by hotels and the foot traffic down here is fantastic, so we need to take our giant retail floor and turn it into a design feast. Lara Matthews (of Thread Show fame) described it as a permanant Thread Show and in some ways that is true. Our goal with this space is to give new businesses a boost and one of our ways is to give up the floor for NO FEE.
If you have merchandise sitting in storage- bring it here. If you want a place to help build your brand- bring it here. If you want bragging rights to a cool location- bring it here. If you have money to spend on independent design and art- bring it here.
We will watch the shop and sell your stuff (or sell you stuff), you just bring what you already have.
NOW... HERE'S some NEWS!!
We are in NO WAY associated with SDonlineradio. Thank God.
Shop downtown in th Gaslamp Quarter
the big funky shop at the East Village border,
art, fashion, jewelry, and engraving to order,
fresh and exciting, you won't get bored.. or
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