Labubu maker Pop Mart is opening U.S. headquarters in Culver City

Pop Mart, the Chinese toymaker known for its collectible Labubu dolls, reportedly plans to unfastened a caller bureau gathering successful Culver City arsenic it seeks to grow its North American presence.

The 22,000-square-foot bureau volition service arsenic Pop Mart’s caller U.S. headquarters, according to existent property information supplier CoStar, which earlier reported the deal.

Pop Mart, founded successful 2010 successful Beijing, is credited with fueling the frenzy implicit “blind boxes” — small, collectible toys sold successful packaging that keeps the nonstop fig wrong a astonishment until it is unsealed.

The toymaker, which is publically traded connected the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, has astir 600 carnal stores crossed 18 countries, according to its September 2025 half-year fiscal report.

Much of its caller maturation has concentrated successful the U.S. In the archetypal fractional of past year, the institution opened 40 caller stores, including 19 successful the Americas. In Southern California, it present has stores successful Westfield Century City, Glendale Galleria, and Westfield UTC Mall successful La Jolla.

The bureau gathering Pop Mart is moving into, named “Slash,” features leaning solid windows and a distinguishable jagged design. The 1999 gathering was designed by the Los Angeles designer Eric Owen Moss.

Pop Mart’s determination to basal itself successful L.A.’s Westside comes amid Culver City’s translation from a sleepy suburb known for being the location to Sony Pictures Studios — to an municipality hub, driven, successful part, by the Expo Line presumption that opened successful 2012.

Ikea precocious announced plans to unfastened a 40,000-square-foot store successful Culver City’s historical Helms Bakery analyzable — its archetypal successful L.A.’s Westside — aboriginal this spring.

Big tech has played an important relation successful Culver City’s caller evolution. Recent additions see Apple, which has opened a workplace and has been gathering a larger bureau campus; Amazon, which successful 2022 unveiled a monolithic virtual accumulation stage, and Tiktok, which successful 2020 opened a five-floor bureau featuring a contented instauration studio. Pinterest has a caller bureau successful Culver City arsenic of past month, according to the company’s LinkedIn account.

Sign up for our Wide Shot newsletter to get the latest amusement concern news, investigation and insights.

This communicative primitively appeared successful Los Angeles Times.