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the gist
was looking at a $15 million total price tag if it was going
to realize Cherney's vision. Cleanup alone cost $180,000.
Cherney was not deterred, even though the City of
Roanoke had condemned the building. " The bones of the
building are great, " says Cherney. " There was no reason it
couldn't be repurposed. "
Architect Lora Katz said the re-imagining wasn't easy:
" The
challenges to me were varied. How do we keep the
Jim Cherney's repurposing of the former
majority of the building intact, but have it in the end
flea market could include a little social
look nothing like Happy's? How do we make a driveengineering, in addition to an indoor
through storage facility fun architecture and function well
storage facility.
for storage? How do we add space for burgeoning small
businesses and make it flexible for a variety of business
sizes and types? In the end, I guess, the users will judge
AFTER FIVE YEARS OF NEGLECT, Happy's Flea
the success of the attempt. "
Market had become, quite literally, a dump. Cleaning it
Happy's wasn't always a flea market, having been reout required filling 80 huge construction dumpsters. A
imagined several times. It opened in 1958 as Arlen's
Department Store and became a rec center (skating
group of homeless " tenants " had to be removed, along with
quite a few rats the size of small dogs. The roof was in
rink, miniature golf ) and food vendor. Dr. Wayne Fralin
the process of caving in and nothing that normally makes
founded the flea market, which at its height had 100
buildings run was in working order.
vendors inside the building and as many as 500 outside.
Jim Cherney 's $1 million investment in the
Over the years, the facility was allowed to fall into ill
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total acres
HAPPY'S:
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quiet reflection. Water, plant, wood, stone. Koi fish and butterflies. It's a beautiful place of stillness. That moves.
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