Pop Mart Leases Culver City Building to Establish U.S. Headquarters

Pop Mart International Group has leased an entire 22,000-square-foot creative office building in Culver City, California, marking the Beijing-based collectibles maker's first standalone U.S. office and establishing what real estate data provider CoStar describes as its new U.S. headquarters.

The building Pop Mart is moving into is named "Slash," a 1999 structure designed by Los Angeles architect Eric Owen Moss that features leaning glass windows and a jagged exterior profile. CoStar, which first reported the deal, confirmed Pop Mart took the entire building, an unusual commitment in a Los Angeles market where overall office vacancy remains elevated. As CoStar noted in announcing the lease, "premium properties still attract fast-growing brands" even against that backdrop.

The move comes as Pop Mart is scaling hard in North America. The company, founded in 2010 in Beijing and publicly traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, reported nearly 600 physical stores across 18 countries in its September 2025 half-year financial report. In the first half of 2025 alone it opened 40 new stores globally, 19 of them in the Americas. Its Southern California retail footprint already includes locations at Westfield Century City, Glendale Galleria, and Westfield UTC Mall in La Jolla, making a West Coast headquarters a logical operational anchor.

Culver City itself has been drawing this tier of tenant for years. Apple has opened a studio there and is building a larger campus; Amazon unveiled a massive virtual production stage in 2022; TikTok opened a five-floor office with a dedicated content creation studio in 2020; and Pinterest opened a new Culver City office as recently as last month. Ikea has announced plans to open a 40,000-square-foot store in the historic Helms Bakery complex, its first on L.A.'s Westside, later this spring. Much of that transformation traces back to the Expo Line station that opened in 2012, which pushed the formerly sleepy suburb, long known mainly as the home of Sony Pictures Studios, toward the urban hub it has become.

For Pop Mart, planting a headquarters in that corridor signals something beyond retail expansion. The Labubu maker and blind box pioneer is building the kind of permanent U.S. infrastructure, a full creative office building rather than a shared suite, that precedes significant operational growth in a market.