Community Playbook: Is opening an urban/street dance studio viable in your city?

Planning to launch an urban/street dance studio and looking for on-the-ground input from people who have run, evaluated, or worked in local studios. Concrete local numbers and tactical lessons are most useful — if you only have observations, those help too.

When you reply, please include (brief bullets or a short paragraph):
- City / neighborhood (rent zone)
- Space size (sqft), typical monthly rent, and usual lease length
- Buildout/fit-out range (low–high) and main line items (floors, mirrors, sound, HVAC)
- Typical class sizes by level (kids/teens/adults) and pricing (drop-in / class packs / monthly pass)
- Instructor pay model (hourly, % of class revenue, base + commission) and common rates
- Occupancy patterns by time/day (mornings, afternoons, evenings, weekends) or average fill %
- Revenue mix that actually moved the needle (approx % from classes, workshops, rentals, merch, online)
- How long to reach breakeven and rough monthly revenue at breakeven
- Biggest surprises or mistakes and what you would do differently
- Any shareable templates or examples (pricing sheet, instructor contract, sample schedule, simple P&L or occupancy spreadsheet)

If you only evaluated a market rather than operating a studio, please say so. Also share local marketing tactics that worked (partnerships, events, paid ads, community outreach). Thank you — please be specific and, if needed, anonymize numbers or files.