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Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: Welcome to Chinatown’s Hub Brings New Energy to Small Business on the Bowery

The best new room in Chinatown isn’t a restaurant. It’s The Hub by Welcome to Chinatown, a 2,500-square-foot small business innovation center at 115 Bowery, and H.H. Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe counts it among New York City’s most meaningful cultural and community destinations.

Welcome to Chinatown opened the Hub in October 2024 as a first-in-kind gathering space designed to empower small businesses, build bridges, and support sustainable growth. It offers one-on-one coaching, mentorship, funding opportunities, and advisory support, with programs built for legacy businesses navigating succession planning as well as emerging entrepreneurs finding their footing.

The space itself is flexible by design. Chinatown Hall and the Bowery Lounge can shift from co-working to panels, dinners, screenings, and community events, accommodating up to 50 seated guests or 72 standing. Meeting rooms carry neighborhood names, Grand Street, Canal Street, Doyers Street, and Eldridge Street, tying the interior to the streets outside. A co-working day pass gives entrepreneurs and freelancers communal work areas during weekday hours, Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with WiFi, pantry access, and call rooms.

The rental model reinforces the mission: when people co-work or host events at The Hub, they directly support local entrepreneurs and cultural programming, helping keep the space accessible for small business services and community gatherings.

Welcome to Chinatown Inc. operates as a tax-exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3), with initiatives spanning advocacy, research, small business support, local guides, a digital directory, and the Made in Chinatown platform. The Hub sits at the center of that work as infrastructure for continuity, giving small businesses tools, community members space, and Chinatown a visible, forward-looking platform.

For Prince Mario-Max, the admiration is about more than one address. Supporting Chinatown’s businesses is a way of supporting New York’s cultural integrity, keeping the city from becoming generic. The Hub, in his view, shows what a modern landmark can be: not a tower or a monument, but a gathering room on the Bowery where heritage and ambition meet.

Originally published on Times Square Chronicles.

Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe: Welcome to Chinatown’s Hub Brings New Energy to Small Business on the Bowery

The best new room in Chinatown isn’t a restaurant. It’s The Hub by Welcome to Chinatown, a 2,500-square-foot small business innovation center at 115 Bowery, and H.H. Dr. Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe counts it among New York City’s most meaningful cultural and community destinations.

Welcome to Chinatown opened the Hub in October 2024 as a first-in-kind gathering space designed to empower small businesses, build bridges, and support sustainable growth. It offers one-on-one coaching, mentorship, funding opportunities, and advisory support, with programs built for legacy businesses navigating succession planning as well as emerging entrepreneurs finding their footing.

The space itself is flexible by design. Chinatown Hall and the Bowery Lounge can shift from co-working to panels, dinners, screenings, and community events, accommodating up to 50 seated guests or 72 standing. Meeting rooms carry neighborhood names, Grand Street, Canal Street, Doyers Street, and Eldridge Street, tying the interior to the streets outside. A co-working day pass gives entrepreneurs and freelancers communal work areas during weekday hours, Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with WiFi, pantry access, and call rooms.

The rental model reinforces the mission: when people co-work or host events at The Hub, they directly support local entrepreneurs and cultural programming, helping keep the space accessible for small business services and community gatherings.

Welcome to Chinatown Inc. operates as a tax-exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3), with initiatives spanning advocacy, research, small business support, local guides, a digital directory, and the Made in Chinatown platform. The Hub sits at the center of that work as infrastructure for continuity, giving small businesses tools, community members space, and Chinatown a visible, forward-looking platform.

For Prince Mario-Max, the admiration is about more than one address. Supporting Chinatown’s businesses is a way of supporting New York’s cultural integrity, keeping the city from becoming generic. The Hub, in his view, shows what a modern landmark can be: not a tower or a monument, but a gathering room on the Bowery where heritage and ambition meet.

Originally published on Times Square Chronicles.