About MOMENT
Unique Retail Activation Powered by Creative Small Businesses
MOMENT captures the nature of ephemeral retail activations, where speed, urgency and immediacy coalesce with creativity and commerce to produce a destination.
MOMENT taps into the ever-growing creative small business movement has captivated cities across the country and around the world, furthering the mission of helping creative small businesses grow their business with brick-and-mortar stores in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
Supported by a Knight Foundation Grant, MOMENT first emerged in 2018 from San José Made’s MOMENT San Pedro Square micro-retail project, where 14 parking spaces in a downtown San José parking garage were transformed into four micro-retail storefronts (ranging from 250 sq. ft. to 350 sq. ft. in size)—perfect for providing local creative small businesses with their first physical storefront.
In 2022, in addition to its downtown San José project, MOMENT launched a “four-in-one” retail project in San José Japantown, in which four dynamic micro-retail spaces share one large retail storefront footprint.
In 2023, MOMENT was formally established as its own standalone company, acting as the pop-up retail branch of the parent company, Moveable.
In 2024, MOMENT collaborated with the San José Downtown Association and City of San José to bring over 15 creative small businesses across four storefronts in downtown San José, bringing vital retail activation to long neglected or vacant properties.
As of 2025, MOMENT currently works with over 19 creative small businesses, with current plans to expand into the East Bay and across the South Bay Area.
In short, we are continually thinking of creative ways to support creative small businesses!
We do pop-up retail. We do small curated markets. We have our own dynamically programmed micro-retail storefronts and we're looking to grow the micro-retail movement for small businesses throughout the Bay Area. We create social media campaigns celebrating small businesses. We help community creatives create for their community.
Why the name “MOMENT”
We found the name MOMENT to perfectly suit our vision for the ethos and ambition of these four retail spaces, as "MOMENT" in one simple incisive utterance connotes and encapsulates so many different things we're trying to achieve.
For the amazing creative tenants who'll reside in MOMENT, we believe MOMENT could represent one of the biggest landmarks of growth in your business and brand's story. This is what you have been working on for so long, and now here's this ample and wildly visible space to express not only your work, not only your brand but the best and boldest version of yourself.
We love how "MOMENT" represents our unwavering belief in ephemeral retail activations, where speed, urgency and immediacy coalesce with creativity and commerce to produce a destination demanding to be experienced.
For the city and people for whom we do all this, "MOMENT" conveys this vast and pervasive feeling that we, as a city and as a people, are facing significant questions, challenges, and most importantly opportunities—all moments if you will—that'll end up defining the city's narrative over the next several decades.
MOMENT San Pedro Square. Located at 60 N. San Pedro Street, San José, CA 95113. Supported by a Knight Foundation Grant, MOMENT first emerged in 2018 from San José Made’s MOMENT San Pedro Square micro-retail project, where 14 parking spaces in a downtown San José parking garage were transformed into four micro-retail storefronts (ranging from 250 sq. ft. to 350 sq. ft. in size)—perfect for providing local creative small businesses with their first physical storefront.
MOMENT JTOWN. Located at 208 Jackson Street, San José, CA 95112. Opened in October 2022, MOMENT JTOWN is a set of four dynamic micro-retail spaces that share one large retail storefront footprint in the heart of San José Japantown.
MOMENT Marketplace. Google Visitor Experience in Mountain View, CA. Between October 2023 and August 2024, MOMENT operated MOMENT Marketplace at the Google Visitor Experience in Mountain View, CA, featuring locally made and locally designed goods from over 75 makers and artists. Every three months, MOMENT Marketplace brought a new theme to its storefront, featuring products and one-of-a-kind pieces carefully curated based on that fun new theme.
MOMENT Paseo. Located at 112 & 115 Paseo de San Antonio, San José, CA 95112. Opened in May 2024, MOMENT Paseo brings new life to downtown San José by transforming two long-time vacant storefronts into a vibrant retail space featuring five women-of-color owned businesses. MOMENT Paseo is the second stage of the new MOMENT Downtown San José Program, in collaboration with the San Jose Downtown Association and the City of San José.
MOMENT Post Street. Located at 21 & 23 Post Street, San José, CA 95113. Opened in August 2024, MOMENT Post Street brings even more life to downtown San José by transforming two additional long-time vacant storefronts into lively retail spaces featuring six women and LGBTQIA+ owned businesses. MOMENT Post Street is the third stage of the new MOMENT Downtown San José Program, in collaboration with the San Jose Downtown Association and the City of San José.
Mini Markets by MOMENT brings local independent artists and creative small businesses to the sidewalk, parklet, street, and pedestrian-walkways just outside of its downtown San José MOMENT micro-retail storefronts: MOMENT Paseo and MOMENT San Pedro Square throughout the year.
More About Our Sister Companies
San José Made
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From our annual highly-attended SJMade Fest to the largest craft fair in the South Bay in the SJMade Holiday Fair, San José Made has abundant experience coordinating, planning, and executing large scale events.
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San Jose Made's e-commerce platform, SanJoseMade.com, hosts over 150 makers, creators, and artists, allowing additional reach to customers outside our major events.
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Located in the heart of San Jose Japantown, San José Made fully operates and staffs MOMENT JTOWN—a four-in-one store concept featuring Jacquelin De Leon, Thousand Skies, Le Petit Elefant, and members of the SJMADE program.
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With a network of over 1,500 local makers, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, curators, food producers and creative small businesses, SJMADE has the ability to curate and manage temporary pop-up retail projects.
Moveable Feast
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By working with Moveable for your catering event, you are getting an easy-to-use high quality catering experience where our team will handle all relevant communication, insurance, and logistics.
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Moveable has significant experience and expertise in delivering high-quality lunchtime food truck pop ups featuring a diversity of cuisines for corporate campuses and workplaces throughout the Bay Area.
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With Moveable's network of over 90 food trucks featuring over two dozen different cuisines, Moveable can operate exciting recurring lunch and/or dinner services for your residential property.
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Moveable offers event organizers a low cost to no cost way to bring a diverse selection of the Bay Area's best street food trucks to their event(s).
Clients
Meet the MOMENT Team
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Kevin Biggers
CHIEF OF OPERATIONS
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Audrey Yeung
PROGRAM MANAGER
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Richard Castaneda
PRODUCTION SPECIALIST
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Owen Tanaka
MARKETING & RETAIL SPECIALIST
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Mac Nishijima
EVENT PRODUCTION SPECIALIST
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Anna Dinh
SALES & OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE
Visit a MOMENT Location
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Post Street
Cub n’ Cony
by SudiBear & Malisa Suchanya
21 Post Street, San José, CA 95113MOMENT 23 Post Street
itskleine • Rose Gold Jelly
Tiny Keyboard Shop • Neko-Oi
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Paseo de San Antonio
Sueños
by Cositas Contreras & La Paloma Imports
112 Paseo de San Antonio, San José, CA 95112MOMENT 115 Paseo
Plant Slut
Bad Witch Crystals
115 Paseo de San Antonio, San José, CA 95112 -
San Pedro Square
TEMPORARILY CLOSED UNTIL 2027
Due to the construction project on the San Pedro Square garage facade, MOMENT San Pedro Square will temporarily be closing its doors until construction is complete. But don’t fret, we aren’t leaving San Pedro Square for good! Read more: here.
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San José Japantown
Thousands Skies
Le Petit Elefant
Jacquelin de Leon
San José Made