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 On Aug. 31, the City Council of St. Charles, Mo., voted to allow the launch of a new flea market at 2045 S. Old Highway 94, one half mile south of Truman Blvd., at Exit 2 off Highway 370. “We got our approval just last night,” says market developer Jim Zavradinos, speaking with FleaMarketZone yesterday. “We’re underway!”
The Truman Markets project faces a short timetable to get ready for its Sept. 17 opening. “We have to finish up the rock and the pavement, the electrical, the tents, the portable toilets, the office, the Internet, and stuff like that,” says Zavradinos, “And we should be able to get it done.”
The market is not what he originally planned for the property. Zavradinos had expected to develop the land for commercial use. “It was going to be an industrial park,” he says, mentioning office warehouse, retail, some service, storage, and so on. “It is well located, and there are other neighboring industrial developments, but after the economy turned — unfortunately very shortly after we purchased the property — as with other developers, we’ve been struggling,” he says.
“After the past two years that we’ve been struggling with the business center part of it, we realized that we had to think outside of the box, and do something,” Zavradinos says, “or otherwise the project was going to fail.”
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