It is funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust and is supported by the Home Affairs Bureau.

It fell into disuse particularly due to a steep decline in the local garment industry in 1990s in Hong Kong when owners started to move their businesses to mainland China.

[7] The JCCAC was the first adaptive reuse attempt in Hong Kong to convert a decommissioned factory building into a creative arts centre.

[9] The design aims to strike a fine balance between new and old features in order to achieve integration with the surrounding neighbourhood and to preserve the inherent characteristics of the old factory building.

The Centre also has supporting facilities such as a Black Box Theatre, two exhibition galleries, and a central courtyard for organisation of programmes and activities.

Visitors were unhappy to find many studios closed as a result of some artists saying they simply wanted a quiet place to work.