Say Hello To Revolving Spaces, The Airbnb Of Pop-Up Retail
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Lone Design Club’s core team (from left): Lucas Sohl, CCO; Charlotte Fletcher, operations and … More property director; and Rebecca Morter, CEO and founder. Lone Design Club A more harmonious—and efficient—relationship between retail landlords and their short-term/pop-up tenants is in sight thanks to the latest property technology platform developed by London-based Lone Design Club (LDC), a startup that’s been innovating in the retail property market for six years. The company, led by CEO and founder Rebecca Morter, has quickly morphed from providing pop-ups for busy placemakers, usually retail landlords, to the department-store style concept called Co.Lab for newcomer labels. That was last year. Some sleepless nights later and LDC is about to debut ‘Revolving Spaces’, a digital platform that’s an evolution of Co.Lab, which the company believes can revolutionize and revitalize commercial retail in malls, retail plazas and parks, and perhaps even local High Streets. Morter told me in an exclusive interview that she wanted the new service to become the Airbnb of pop-ups. “When it first came out I was really skeptical about renting a stranger’s house, but now we book and don’t even think about it. That’s how we see ourselves with pop-up spaces.” The essence of the offer to the landlord is that the scalable proptech SaaS platform can unlock the value of underutilized assets across retail, mixed-use, and commercial portfolios, and let the labels do much of the legwork. From the brand side—mostly startup, direct-to-consumer (DTC) players looking for their first physical retail spaces—the platform gives them a searchable database of locations, where they can input their needs (location, retail type, size, etc.,) and the app will pull up a list of suitable options including pricing, which can be negotiated. Just like Airbnb. Digitizing the pop-up process Morter said: “A lot of focus has been on…
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