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Hey Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:00:20] Hello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:21] And producer Jessica Kariisa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:00:23] Hey Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:25] I feel like we’ve been talking about this a little bit in our little Bay office lately, but I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately from people in my life about how we’re doing over here at KQED, because as maybe not everyone knows, but House Republicans have accused NPR and PBS of bias and have been threatening to pull back on federal funding for these. public media organizations of which we are connected to. 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And as many people probably know, the Trump administration and the Republican Party is interested in pulling federal funding from public media. So that was the context. And at that hearing, Representative Greene pulled no punches when talking about NPR and PBS. And many of her Republican colleagues did the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene \u003c/strong>[00:02:00] For far too long, federal taxpayers have been forced to fund biased news. 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And the majority of that money goes not directly to NPR and PBS, which are national organizations, but to local broadcasting stations throughout the country, radio and TV, of which KQED is a part. So for us, you know, federal funding makes up about 7% of our budget. That’s a significant chunk of KQED’s operating budget, but I will note that in rural areas for smaller stations, that percentage is actually quite a lot more. So zeroing out that funding would actually disproportionately hurt smaller stations in more rural areas. 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But it is also happening in a larger context in which this White House and the ruling party in government is very aggressively attacking the people who it sees as its enemies. whether it’s journalists, whether it is legal residents protesting against the war in Gaza, and really anyone who is perceived to be an enemy of President Trump and his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:58] All right, well, when we come back, we’re going to get right into the local news stories that Al and Jessica and I have been following this month. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">[00:05:18] And welcome back to The Bay’s Monthly News Roundup, where we talk about some of the other stories we’ve been following this month, and producer Jessica Kariisa, I wanna start with you. 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And I mentioned at the top that it was introduced and not voted on because it wasn’t voted on. he actually pulled. the measure before the vote because there was a lot of backlash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:31] So this school board member, Mark Koerner, why did he want to introduce this measure? And just to be clear, this wouldn’t have changed any policies, right? It was more about proclaiming, you know, making a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jessica Kariisa \u003c/strong>[00:06:44] Right, right, making a statement, starting a discussion. He said that, you know, he was really, had been thinking a lot about, you know, how boys have a lower rate of academic achievement, higher rates of suicide, and mental health issues, and said that on average, the high school graduation rate for boys is lower than that for girls. 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This idea that the movement for gender equality has gone too far to the point where men are being alienated. So the school board meeting, you know, usually people don’t really attend these, just a handful of people, but you know there were almost a hundred people that attended this meeting, mostly parents, mostly moms, to voice their concerns about this. And the reactions ranged from, you now, everything from this is offensive, this is embarrassing, it’s tone deaf. The president of the San Rafael Federation of Teachers, Morgan Agnew, also made a statement basically saying that. You know, we have lots of programs that are targeted to young men and that introducing something like this is just, it doesn’t make a lot of sense and it’s polarizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:08:53] I mean, there’s a lot to talk about actually with achievement of boys in schools and young men and the development of young men. 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And the majority of that money goes not directly to NPR and PBS, which are national organizations, but to local broadcasting stations throughout the country, radio and TV, of which KQED is a part. So for us, you know, federal funding makes up about 7% of our budget. That’s a significant chunk of KQED’s operating budget, but I will note that in rural areas for smaller stations, that percentage is actually quite a lot more. So zeroing out that funding would actually disproportionately hurt smaller stations in more rural areas. 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But it is also happening in a larger context in which this White House and the ruling party in government is very aggressively attacking the people who it sees as its enemies. whether it’s journalists, whether it is legal residents protesting against the war in Gaza, and really anyone who is perceived to be an enemy of President Trump and his administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:58] All right, well, when we come back, we’re going to get right into the local news stories that Al and Jessica and I have been following this month. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">[00:05:18] And welcome back to The Bay’s Monthly News Roundup, where we talk about some of the other stories we’ve been following this month, and producer Jessica Kariisa, I wanna start with you. 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Basically, a number of years ago, the owners of the flea market, the barriers of flea market, wanted to basically redevelop that site for housing because of this new BART station. That has always essentially meant the end of the flee market as people knew it in San Jose, but also everyone knew that it would be such a huge blow. And so there was this really big question hanging over which is Where do we put it? Where can we move this huge flea market? These vendors have really eyed this site, known as the Singleton site, which is this 90 acre former landfill. Many saw it as sort of the best option because of its proximity to the freeway and these residential neighborhoods. 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Of course, you know, as we all know, in California, one of the challenges in building affordable housing is finding the land that is suitable to build housing on and actually Newsom took several actions in 2019 to make state and local public lands available for affordable housing because of this problem. And now San Jose officials are saying that they’re they’re wanting to seek an exemption. from this land act based on the sort of economic benefits that would come from obviously putting nearly 500 vendors here and allowing them to sell their goods and keep this flea market going. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Jose city leaders are looking for a new site for the nearly 500 vendors at the Berryessa Flea Market, which will be moved to make way for the new Berryessa BART Urban Village. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Singleton Road landfill has risen to the top. Is an abandoned landfill the right place for a new flea market?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC6882371058&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Links: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960306/why-the-future-of-san-joses-flea-market-could-be-an-abandoned-landfill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why the Future of San José’s Flea Market Could Be an Abandoned Landfill\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. The nearly 500 small business owners who make up San Jose’s iconic Berryessa flea market are trying to find a new home. They’re making way for the new Berryessa BART urban village, the kind of thing that everyone says the Bay Area needs more of if we want to address our region’s housing crisis. And now, the city of San jose says it has an idea for where to put the market; an abandoned landfill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>It might also present really the best chance to keep this landmark alive. So what kind of emphasis is this for the city moving forward?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, the struggle to find a new home for La Pulga and why a landfill has risen to the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Guy, can you just remind us, where are we at right now in the sort of long saga of La Pulga? Like, where do things stand right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Right now, vendors at the San Jose Berryessa flea market are dealing with kind of an unknown closure date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Guy Marzorati is a political correspondent for KQED. He also produces the Political Breakdown podcast. He’s based in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>It could come as soon as 2025. So what’s happening right now is kind of this scramble to find a new site. The flea market is still operating, but it does have this uncertain future. This goes back a number of years. The owners of the flea market have had a desire to redevelop the current site housing, retail around transit because BART is now in North San Jose at various and big picture like this is kind of what the city is pushing for. They want that kind of dense housing development near transit. But the flip side of that is that development, if it happens, would mean the end of the flea market as we know it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>And this would be a huge blow to San Jose, both culturally but also economically. I mean, this if you take the flea market kind of as a whole, it would be a top 50 employer in the city. It is the densest concentration of small businesses that we have in the South Bay. So it’s an incredibly stressful time for a lot of vendors. For most of them, this is a primary source of income. So are, you know, trying to find this new site with the city. I will say the city was able to extract some concessions from the owner of the flea market, most notably putting money in a pot that will be used for finding a new site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And how much money was put in that pot to help them find a new site?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>The owners, the flea market and the city are putting a $7.5 million into this fund that’s aimed at helping vendors, both when the market closes just financially, but also putting staff time and hiring consultants to identify a new site potentially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean Guy, La Pulga is this like very unique, sprawling market. We’re talking about 460 vendors. What are some of the things that the city needs to consider as it looks for a new location for the market? I mean, it sounds really hard to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah, it’s really hard. I mean, look, in the Bay Area, land is incredibly expensive. And for a flea market of this size, you’re going to need a large piece of land. Most of the prime real estate, you know, conveniently located parcels were grabbed up years ago, let alone one of the size the, you know, dozens and dozens of acres you need for a site like this. And that’s how you get to a situation where the city of San Jose is saying the best place that we have for this landmark is a landfill. So there were five ideas brought forward by the consultant as like most viable for a future site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>There was the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds. There was the former Sears Department store at the Eastridge Mall, which would be an indoor site. There was a small piece of land that could potentially exist at various in a future development. Then there was this idea of like just having vendors set up shop in vacant storefronts throughout the city. And then there was the former landfill on Singleton Road, and that has really risen to the top of the list in the mind of city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay. So tell us about this landfill. Where is it? Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So it’s pretty centrally located right in the middle of San Jose is right off of Capital Expressway. It’s not far from Highway one, two, one, and it’s 90 acres, so there’s plenty of room there for vendors, plenty of room there for parking. And so it really fits a lot of the criteria that the city would be looking for in a potential new site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what is there or I guess what used to be there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So it’s still right in the Seven Trees neighborhood. So there’s folks who are living all around this landfill back in the sixties and seventies. It was home to private and municipal dumps, those largely closed by the late seventies. And since then, this huge piece of land has just been sitting vacant smack in the middle of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what does the landfill look like now, and what has the city tried to do with it in the past?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Right now, the landfill just looks like a massive abandoned field. It’s really just these flare stacks, which kind of look like big pipes that let you know that this used to be a landfill. They’re still standing. They’re burning off methane, But there’s not much going on there now. I mean, some city inspectors actually found roosters at the landfill last year being raised for cockfighting. But there’s fences all around it. So public access is pretty limited. And their security there now, pretty much ever since the landfill closed in the late seventies, there have been ideas on what to do with it, to turn it into a golf course, to use the methane releases to create a power plant. There was even a local ballot measure in San Jose back in 2000 to fund the sports complex here, but none of those ideas came to fruition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why has this landfill kind of risen to the top of the list?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I think it breaks down to me for three reasons. Number one, the city owns this land. Like, that’s a huge piece of this because land is so expensive in the area. Finding a site where the city already owns clears out a huge amount of costs and just time that it would take to acquire a site. The second thing is the size. You’re talking about a 65 acre flea market as it exists currently. The Singleton landfills 90 acres. So it has room to basically house all the vendors that are at the flea market today, plus parking. And then the third is location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Klein: \u003c/strong>Which carries a lot of traffic. It’s near a lot of other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I talked to Nancy Klein, who’s the city’s director of economic development, cultural affairs. She pointed to the location piece of this as, look, we know a lot of people that go to LA, although currently are coming from all over the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Klein: \u003c/strong>It has a similar profile in terms of several different transportation ways. So that makes it positive. It’s not as in some of the other sites which are quite a distance away on a road that makes would be terrible traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>She points to Singleton Road Landfill as having that advantage because it’s right off of 101. It’s near Capital Expressway. You have those major arteries that wouldn’t exist if you’d like, you know, stuck this in some open land in Morgan Hill or something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, that makes sense to me. It’s city owned land. It’s big enough. It’s near some really important roadways. What do vendors think of this idea?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>All along really the top priority I’ve heard from vendors both on this advisory group that’s kind of leading this process. And also folks who aren’t is keeping the market together. They know that there’s just this natural cross-pollination of businesses at La Pulga. You know, maybe you go to the market, you’re looking for like home goods or something. But while you’re there, your kids are with you. You buy them some candy, you buy them Agua Fresca. Like, there’s just this natural cross-currents that happens between businesses that is so important to keeping the market thriving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>And then if you split up the vendors into smaller locations all over the city, you might not get that Singleton would accomplish that. There’d be this opportunity like, we can keep the market together, but vendors have a lot of questions left to be answered about the site and also just about the process and timeline going forward. And so that’s really been at play in these meetings of the flea market vendor advisory group. They’ve met three times so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Klein: \u003c/strong>Around because we are a big community. We are…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>So I talked to Erika Barajas. She’s been a vendor at the market for years selling clothing. And her real feeling was like, yes, maybe, you know, Singleton has a lot of promise, but she really wants the city to commit to stepping up its support during this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erika Barajas: \u003c/strong>So I want to hear from the city on our next meeting that if we decide to go with them, whether are going to be committed to us and guarantee timely free meals and also moving expenses and make sure that that relocation, it’s good for all the vendors and also the sellers do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Even if the Singleton Road landfill works out, there is going to be a lot of cost for preparing the site, but also a lot of costs on the vendors. You know, they will have to relocate after years and in various to this new market, there might be like a transitional time where they’re not able to sell at either place, kind of like a, you know, in-between time. And Erika’s real emphasis was like, we want commitments from the city to support us during that time because there’s just so much uncertainty ahead with this potential transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erika Barajas: \u003c/strong>At the end of the day, City makes a lot of money on revenue from the sales, from the expenses that we pay from for income taxes. It will be helpful for all of us because we need each other. We are community and we need each other. Detainees is to help us and we will help the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay, So this landfill has really risen to the top as it sounds like the most viable option so far. But is this a good idea? I’m curious what residents nearby the landfill think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>They mostly were just like, we have a lot of questions about this. And again, there was this thinking of like, we’ve heard it all before. We’ve heard they’re going to develop Singleton Road Landfill. We’ll believe it when we see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lilia Gaspar: \u003c/strong>For the longest time, there was a proposal, but again, nothing has passed because this landfill is full of, you know, topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I talked to Lillia Gasper. She’s actually lived right next to the landfill almost her entire life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lilia Gaspar: \u003c/strong>Cherry Orchard We’re over here on land where a lunch on waste that used to be all cherry orchards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>She just kind of painted this a picture of someone who’s lived there for a long time. And I think, you know, her concerns and concerns of other residents I talked to largely had to do with, like traffic. Right. How is this all going to work if you have thousands of people coming in to shop in their neighborhood at the potential future flea market?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lilia Gaspar: \u003c/strong>We already have a big issue right now of the jungle of the homeless encampment. It will just create more problems on top of it to poorer neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>And I think they also expressed just feeling like they had needs already in their neighborhood, that they felt that the city hadn’t done a great job of addressing, namely, in their minds, homeless encampments and blight and a feeling like, oh, there’s going to be focus on the flea market. What about the existing problems that we have in our neighborhoods? So we’ve talked a lot about like all that the city has to address on the vendor side of things to make this potential move happen. There’s a whole nother piece of this about talking to the neighbors who currently live around the Singleton Road Landfill and making them feel like this is a good idea, a good addition for their neighborhood as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I mean, also, this is an abandoned landfill, which makes me wonder, is it safe? I mean, if people are going to be working there all day and walking around and I don’t know, what do experts say about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>You know, the landfill has been closed for decades, but there’s still actively methane being released from this site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriel Filippelli: \u003c/strong>In general, this kind of reuse using the surface of the landfill for another activity is valuable. And it’s done in a lot of other places and it can can be safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I talked to Gabriel Filippelli. He’s executive director of the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute. He’s also a landfill expert. This is the kind of stuff he studies often. And he said, look like, you know, it can happen. This kind of reuse for former landfills is viable. But he says there’s still questions that will have to be answered and work that will have to be done in advance of this potential transformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriel Filippelli: \u003c/strong>You always have to remember that you are sitting on a pile of material that has the potential to release toxins. So if you keep monitoring it, you have to keep checking it. And of course, if there’s any seismic disruption or digging or trenching, you have to pay extra special care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>We live in an area with earthquakes. Bad things could happen to the landfill if there’s an earthquake and it’s not there’s not structural integrity. So there’s a lot of boxes that would have to be checked. But generally, Philip Kelley said this is the kind of thing, this kind of reuse that can be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, looking ahead, guy, how long do people have to find this site? What’s the timeline here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So under the agreement that the city reached with the owners of the current flea market, they have to give a one year notice for when they want to close the market and evict the vendors. So the earliest date when those evictions could happen is January 1st of 2025. But it could close a lot later than that. Right. The owners of the market right now haven’t found someone to do this massive development at the burial site. That could go on for years. Who knows? Given the current state of commercial real estate. So it’s kind of a mix of like, okay, this is far in the future. But also we don’t want to be complacent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Wherever it is, La Pulga ends up. What’s at stake with this decision to find a new site? I mean, like it seems really important that the city finds a space to like both build housing near transit, which we all know needs to happen in the Bay Area, but also find a new place for these vendors who’ve been there for many, many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, think about all the attention that the Westfield Mall closure got in San Francisco, right? That was like 50 stores. This is almost 500. You know, this is a would be a massive displacement of small businesses, many of whom are immigrants. There’s the economic component to this. There’s like this is a landmark within the city. I think right now we see where is the commitment of the city government. We know budget times are tight in San Jose. We just had this big fight over city employee pay that we talked about recently on the bay. So this move to Singleton landfill, potentially, it’s not going to be cheap. There’s going to have to be the mitigation and preparing the site for this. So it’s going to take more money from the city government to make this happen. But it might also present really the best chance to keep this landmark alive. So what kind of emphasis is this for the city moving forward?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, that’s an interesting way to think about it. And I guess it’s like, who is the future of San Jose for? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. The nearly 500 small business owners who make up San Jose’s iconic Berryessa flea market are trying to find a new home. They’re making way for the new Berryessa BART urban village, the kind of thing that everyone says the Bay Area needs more of if we want to address our region’s housing crisis. And now, the city of San jose says it has an idea for where to put the market; an abandoned landfill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>It might also present really the best chance to keep this landmark alive. So what kind of emphasis is this for the city moving forward?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, the struggle to find a new home for La Pulga and why a landfill has risen to the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Guy, can you just remind us, where are we at right now in the sort of long saga of La Pulga? Like, where do things stand right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Right now, vendors at the San Jose Berryessa flea market are dealing with kind of an unknown closure date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Guy Marzorati is a political correspondent for KQED. He also produces the Political Breakdown podcast. He’s based in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>It could come as soon as 2025. So what’s happening right now is kind of this scramble to find a new site. The flea market is still operating, but it does have this uncertain future. This goes back a number of years. The owners of the flea market have had a desire to redevelop the current site housing, retail around transit because BART is now in North San Jose at various and big picture like this is kind of what the city is pushing for. They want that kind of dense housing development near transit. But the flip side of that is that development, if it happens, would mean the end of the flea market as we know it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>And this would be a huge blow to San Jose, both culturally but also economically. I mean, this if you take the flea market kind of as a whole, it would be a top 50 employer in the city. It is the densest concentration of small businesses that we have in the South Bay. So it’s an incredibly stressful time for a lot of vendors. For most of them, this is a primary source of income. So are, you know, trying to find this new site with the city. I will say the city was able to extract some concessions from the owner of the flea market, most notably putting money in a pot that will be used for finding a new site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And how much money was put in that pot to help them find a new site?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>The owners, the flea market and the city are putting a $7.5 million into this fund that’s aimed at helping vendors, both when the market closes just financially, but also putting staff time and hiring consultants to identify a new site potentially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean Guy, La Pulga is this like very unique, sprawling market. We’re talking about 460 vendors. What are some of the things that the city needs to consider as it looks for a new location for the market? I mean, it sounds really hard to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah, it’s really hard. I mean, look, in the Bay Area, land is incredibly expensive. And for a flea market of this size, you’re going to need a large piece of land. Most of the prime real estate, you know, conveniently located parcels were grabbed up years ago, let alone one of the size the, you know, dozens and dozens of acres you need for a site like this. And that’s how you get to a situation where the city of San Jose is saying the best place that we have for this landmark is a landfill. So there were five ideas brought forward by the consultant as like most viable for a future site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>There was the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds. There was the former Sears Department store at the Eastridge Mall, which would be an indoor site. There was a small piece of land that could potentially exist at various in a future development. Then there was this idea of like just having vendors set up shop in vacant storefronts throughout the city. And then there was the former landfill on Singleton Road, and that has really risen to the top of the list in the mind of city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay. So tell us about this landfill. Where is it? Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So it’s pretty centrally located right in the middle of San Jose is right off of Capital Expressway. It’s not far from Highway one, two, one, and it’s 90 acres, so there’s plenty of room there for vendors, plenty of room there for parking. And so it really fits a lot of the criteria that the city would be looking for in a potential new site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And what is there or I guess what used to be there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So it’s still right in the Seven Trees neighborhood. So there’s folks who are living all around this landfill back in the sixties and seventies. It was home to private and municipal dumps, those largely closed by the late seventies. And since then, this huge piece of land has just been sitting vacant smack in the middle of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what does the landfill look like now, and what has the city tried to do with it in the past?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Right now, the landfill just looks like a massive abandoned field. It’s really just these flare stacks, which kind of look like big pipes that let you know that this used to be a landfill. They’re still standing. They’re burning off methane, But there’s not much going on there now. I mean, some city inspectors actually found roosters at the landfill last year being raised for cockfighting. But there’s fences all around it. So public access is pretty limited. And their security there now, pretty much ever since the landfill closed in the late seventies, there have been ideas on what to do with it, to turn it into a golf course, to use the methane releases to create a power plant. There was even a local ballot measure in San Jose back in 2000 to fund the sports complex here, but none of those ideas came to fruition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why has this landfill kind of risen to the top of the list?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I think it breaks down to me for three reasons. Number one, the city owns this land. Like, that’s a huge piece of this because land is so expensive in the area. Finding a site where the city already owns clears out a huge amount of costs and just time that it would take to acquire a site. The second thing is the size. You’re talking about a 65 acre flea market as it exists currently. The Singleton landfills 90 acres. So it has room to basically house all the vendors that are at the flea market today, plus parking. And then the third is location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Klein: \u003c/strong>Which carries a lot of traffic. It’s near a lot of other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I talked to Nancy Klein, who’s the city’s director of economic development, cultural affairs. She pointed to the location piece of this as, look, we know a lot of people that go to LA, although currently are coming from all over the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Klein: \u003c/strong>It has a similar profile in terms of several different transportation ways. So that makes it positive. It’s not as in some of the other sites which are quite a distance away on a road that makes would be terrible traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>She points to Singleton Road Landfill as having that advantage because it’s right off of 101. It’s near Capital Expressway. You have those major arteries that wouldn’t exist if you’d like, you know, stuck this in some open land in Morgan Hill or something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, that makes sense to me. It’s city owned land. It’s big enough. It’s near some really important roadways. What do vendors think of this idea?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>All along really the top priority I’ve heard from vendors both on this advisory group that’s kind of leading this process. And also folks who aren’t is keeping the market together. They know that there’s just this natural cross-pollination of businesses at La Pulga. You know, maybe you go to the market, you’re looking for like home goods or something. But while you’re there, your kids are with you. You buy them some candy, you buy them Agua Fresca. Like, there’s just this natural cross-currents that happens between businesses that is so important to keeping the market thriving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>And then if you split up the vendors into smaller locations all over the city, you might not get that Singleton would accomplish that. There’d be this opportunity like, we can keep the market together, but vendors have a lot of questions left to be answered about the site and also just about the process and timeline going forward. And so that’s really been at play in these meetings of the flea market vendor advisory group. They’ve met three times so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Klein: \u003c/strong>Around because we are a big community. We are…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>So I talked to Erika Barajas. She’s been a vendor at the market for years selling clothing. And her real feeling was like, yes, maybe, you know, Singleton has a lot of promise, but she really wants the city to commit to stepping up its support during this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erika Barajas: \u003c/strong>So I want to hear from the city on our next meeting that if we decide to go with them, whether are going to be committed to us and guarantee timely free meals and also moving expenses and make sure that that relocation, it’s good for all the vendors and also the sellers do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Even if the Singleton Road landfill works out, there is going to be a lot of cost for preparing the site, but also a lot of costs on the vendors. You know, they will have to relocate after years and in various to this new market, there might be like a transitional time where they’re not able to sell at either place, kind of like a, you know, in-between time. And Erika’s real emphasis was like, we want commitments from the city to support us during that time because there’s just so much uncertainty ahead with this potential transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Erika Barajas: \u003c/strong>At the end of the day, City makes a lot of money on revenue from the sales, from the expenses that we pay from for income taxes. It will be helpful for all of us because we need each other. We are community and we need each other. Detainees is to help us and we will help the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay, So this landfill has really risen to the top as it sounds like the most viable option so far. But is this a good idea? I’m curious what residents nearby the landfill think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>They mostly were just like, we have a lot of questions about this. And again, there was this thinking of like, we’ve heard it all before. We’ve heard they’re going to develop Singleton Road Landfill. We’ll believe it when we see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lilia Gaspar: \u003c/strong>For the longest time, there was a proposal, but again, nothing has passed because this landfill is full of, you know, topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I talked to Lillia Gasper. She’s actually lived right next to the landfill almost her entire life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lilia Gaspar: \u003c/strong>Cherry Orchard We’re over here on land where a lunch on waste that used to be all cherry orchards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>She just kind of painted this a picture of someone who’s lived there for a long time. And I think, you know, her concerns and concerns of other residents I talked to largely had to do with, like traffic. Right. How is this all going to work if you have thousands of people coming in to shop in their neighborhood at the potential future flea market?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lilia Gaspar: \u003c/strong>We already have a big issue right now of the jungle of the homeless encampment. It will just create more problems on top of it to poorer neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>And I think they also expressed just feeling like they had needs already in their neighborhood, that they felt that the city hadn’t done a great job of addressing, namely, in their minds, homeless encampments and blight and a feeling like, oh, there’s going to be focus on the flea market. What about the existing problems that we have in our neighborhoods? So we’ve talked a lot about like all that the city has to address on the vendor side of things to make this potential move happen. There’s a whole nother piece of this about talking to the neighbors who currently live around the Singleton Road Landfill and making them feel like this is a good idea, a good addition for their neighborhood as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I mean, also, this is an abandoned landfill, which makes me wonder, is it safe? I mean, if people are going to be working there all day and walking around and I don’t know, what do experts say about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>You know, the landfill has been closed for decades, but there’s still actively methane being released from this site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriel Filippelli: \u003c/strong>In general, this kind of reuse using the surface of the landfill for another activity is valuable. And it’s done in a lot of other places and it can can be safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>I talked to Gabriel Filippelli. He’s executive director of the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute. He’s also a landfill expert. This is the kind of stuff he studies often. And he said, look like, you know, it can happen. This kind of reuse for former landfills is viable. But he says there’s still questions that will have to be answered and work that will have to be done in advance of this potential transformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriel Filippelli: \u003c/strong>You always have to remember that you are sitting on a pile of material that has the potential to release toxins. So if you keep monitoring it, you have to keep checking it. And of course, if there’s any seismic disruption or digging or trenching, you have to pay extra special care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>We live in an area with earthquakes. Bad things could happen to the landfill if there’s an earthquake and it’s not there’s not structural integrity. So there’s a lot of boxes that would have to be checked. But generally, Philip Kelley said this is the kind of thing, this kind of reuse that can be done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, looking ahead, guy, how long do people have to find this site? What’s the timeline here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So under the agreement that the city reached with the owners of the current flea market, they have to give a one year notice for when they want to close the market and evict the vendors. So the earliest date when those evictions could happen is January 1st of 2025. But it could close a lot later than that. Right. The owners of the market right now haven’t found someone to do this massive development at the burial site. That could go on for years. Who knows? Given the current state of commercial real estate. So it’s kind of a mix of like, okay, this is far in the future. But also we don’t want to be complacent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Wherever it is, La Pulga ends up. What’s at stake with this decision to find a new site? I mean, like it seems really important that the city finds a space to like both build housing near transit, which we all know needs to happen in the Bay Area, but also find a new place for these vendors who’ve been there for many, many years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, think about all the attention that the Westfield Mall closure got in San Francisco, right? That was like 50 stores. This is almost 500. You know, this is a would be a massive displacement of small businesses, many of whom are immigrants. There’s the economic component to this. There’s like this is a landmark within the city. I think right now we see where is the commitment of the city government. We know budget times are tight in San Jose. We just had this big fight over city employee pay that we talked about recently on the bay. So this move to Singleton landfill, potentially, it’s not going to be cheap. There’s going to have to be the mitigation and preparing the site for this. So it’s going to take more money from the city government to make this happen. But it might also present really the best chance to keep this landmark alive. So what kind of emphasis is this for the city moving forward?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, that’s an interesting way to think about it. And I guess it’s like, who is the future of San Jose for? Like who do we make room for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Yeah, and this is, you know, I think there can be, like, a thinking of the flea market as like, oh, this is kind of just like a side hustle thing that people do. For about 75% of the vendors, this is their primary source of income. So this is just like this is like an economic cliff that’s staring in the face of hundreds of vendors here. So San Jose has these goals of building, you know, dense housing near transit. Can you accomplish that while also maintaining your goal of supporting small businesses, supporting like the cultural vitality that makes San Jose a dope place to live and be like those two goals? I’m sure the city has both of those. This is a real test of can they achieve both at the same time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Thank you so much, Guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati: \u003c/strong>Absolutely. 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"content": "\u003cp>Lilia Gaspar moved into her house next to the Singleton Road landfill in San José when she was 6 years old in the early 1970s. Her parents were farmworkers – her father came to California through the Bracero Program in 1951. She still remembers how the block looked during her youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the city dump and the recycling center right behind us,” Gaspar said. “Cherry orchards were over here, where Lantern Way is, that used to be all cherry orchards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residential and commercial developments gobbled up most centrally located parcels in Silicon Valley, but the 90-acre landfill on Singleton Road has sat virtually untouched since it closed in the late 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Gaspar has watched the high flames from the landfill’s methane stacks burn in the night sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the drying brush along Singleton Road could become a veritable field of dreams for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957907/this-is-our-city-san-joses-berryessa-flea-market-vendors-fight-to-stay\">vendors at the legendary San José Berryessa Flea Market\u003c/a>. The market, known as La Pulga, is set to close in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials acknowledge the challenges of turning a landfill into a landmark, but they see Singleton Road as uniquely suited for a sprawling bazaar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916729/my-roots-are-at-the-flea-market-as-la-pulga-closure-looms-over-vendors-one-san-jose-family-weighs-the-future\">housing hundreds of small businesses\u003c/a> that are in need of a new place to sell their goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is probably the only site that I know of right now in San José where we could keep everybody together,” said Nanci Klein, the city’s director of Economic Development & Cultural Affairs, at a meeting of flea market vendors in June. “But it’s far from a given.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879717/san-jose-approves-plan-to-radically-transform-flea-market-site\">deal to redevelop the current market site on Berryessa Road\u003c/a>, the owners of the flea market and the city are putting $7.5 million into a fund aimed at helping vendors when the market closes, which could come as soon as 2025.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Gabriel Filippelli, executive director, Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute\"]‘You always have to remember that you are sitting on a pile of material that has a potential to release toxins. So, you have to keep monitoring it, you have to keep checking it …’[/pullquote]The goal is to mitigate the effects of what would be a massive displacement of at least 460 small businesses. By comparison, the Westfield mall in San Francisco housed around 50 stores when its well-publicized closure was announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday evening, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11951100/san-joses-flea-market-la-pulga-has-new-vendor-group-voicing-its-future\">an advisory group of flea market vendors\u003c/a> will review an analysis of potential future market sites prepared by a city consultant. The firm identified eight future sites and designated five as “more viable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include the Singleton landfill, the former Sears store at Eastridge Center, the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds and a small piece of land on the current market site. The fifth option would be to help individual vendors set up shop in vacant storefronts throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the meeting’s agenda, only the Singleton Road landfill is singled out for discussion. Of the five sites, it’s also the only one owned by the city that could potentially keep the market whole in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960271\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960271\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt='A sign on a chain link fence reading \"No Illegal Dumping\" in front of a large open field.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘No Illegal Dumping’ sign on the fencing surrounding the landfill at 850 Singleton Rd. in San José on Sept. 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s our north star for the Vendor Association, right? Advocating and fighting for a whole relocated spot,” said Roberto Gonzalez, president of the Berryessa Flea Market Vendors Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez, a member of the advisory group, preferred casting a wide net for future sites, and not zeroing in on one replacement location too soon. But the Singleton parcel, he said, “obviously is attractive because it’s a large piece of land [and] San José doesn’t really have anything like that around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the mid-1960s until the late 1970s, the land was home to private and municipal dumps. Problems quickly piled up. \u003cem>The Mercury News\u003c/em> in San José documented resident complaints about dust control and fears about the landfill contaminating local groundwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city landfill on Singleton Road was cited for not properly covering refuse, having a history of fire problems and not controlling access by the public,” read an article from October 1980.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nanci Klein, director, San José Economic Development & Cultural Affairs\"]‘There’s a heck of a lot to think about if this site could be made to be a home for the vendors.’[/pullquote]Over the ensuing decades, the land was imagined as a future golf course, a methane power plant and a recreational sports complex, none of which panned out. It sits mostly vacant now, apart from the flare stacks burning off methane — and \u003ca href=\"https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov/SolidWaste/SiteInspection/Details/349860?siteID=3391\">several roosters being raised for cockfighting that city inspectors stumbled across last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land still holds value: A 2008 city estimate pegged the site’s worth at up to $57 million. It sits along Capitol Expressway and is less than two miles from Highway 101. The size of the site would allow vendors to relocate together, and potentially recreate the cross-pollination of shoppers that takes place at La Pulga. By contrast, the future market space envisioned for the current flea market site (if the current owners find a willing developer) would only have room for some vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Retail is most successful when there is a critical mass of compatible retailers located in the same place,” consultants write in the alternative site presentation to the advisory group. “A smaller market could still succeed, but would need to offer something special or different to attract shoppers and generate sufficient revenue for vendors to make a profit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The methane releases at the Singleton site are unlikely to pose a threat to merchants and shoppers in an open-air market, said Gabriel Filippelli, executive director of the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute. The flaring is a method of managing the gas releases that occur as bacteria consume the materials in the landfill over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general, this kind of reuse — reusing the surface of the landfill for another activity — is viable, and it’s done in a lot of other places, and it can be safe,” said Filippelli, who reviewed the city’s quarterly inspection reports for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A top concern for developing the site, Filippelli added, is ensuring the landfill’s structural integrity in case of an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960270\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A small structure with a large smokestack is seen from behind a chainlink fence in the center of a large field.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A methane release structure at 850 Singleton Rd. in San José on Sept. 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You always have to remember that you are sitting on a pile of material that has a potential to release toxins,” he said. “So, you have to keep monitoring it, you have to keep checking it, and of course, if there’s any seismic disruption or digging or trenching, you have to pay extra special care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alternative site analysis lays out additional concerns: a long public process for development, regulatory hurdles and “significant site work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a heck of a lot to think about if this site could be made to be a home for the vendors,” said Klein, with the city’s Economic Development and Cultural Affairs department, in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city will also need to convince residents near the Singleton landfill that the flea market would be a positive addition to the Seven Trees neighborhood.[aside label='More on San José' tag='san-jose']From her perch next to the landfill, Gaspar said she didn’t like the idea of La Pulga coming to the neighborhood. For one, she’s worried about the rush of customers it could bring to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already have enough traffic here, it’s too congested,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven Trees resident Alie Victorine also had concerns — about the traffic, noise and potential illegal parking by market customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she described the area around the landfill as ripe for attention and investment from the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the area that we are hoping to really tackle next year, to get the city to do something about it, to improve the look so that the neighbors aren’t dealing with the crime issues and the blight issues for this area,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaspar is not getting her hopes up for a transformation. In 2000, San José voters passed Measure P, a bond to fund a proposed sports complex on the Singleton landfill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody was excited, everybody went for it and everything,” she said. “And to this day, we’re still waiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Gaspar has watched the high flames from the landfill’s methane stacks burn in the night sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the drying brush along Singleton Road could become a veritable field of dreams for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957907/this-is-our-city-san-joses-berryessa-flea-market-vendors-fight-to-stay\">vendors at the legendary San José Berryessa Flea Market\u003c/a>. The market, known as La Pulga, is set to close in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials acknowledge the challenges of turning a landfill into a landmark, but they see Singleton Road as uniquely suited for a sprawling bazaar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916729/my-roots-are-at-the-flea-market-as-la-pulga-closure-looms-over-vendors-one-san-jose-family-weighs-the-future\">housing hundreds of small businesses\u003c/a> that are in need of a new place to sell their goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is probably the only site that I know of right now in San José where we could keep everybody together,” said Nanci Klein, the city’s director of Economic Development & Cultural Affairs, at a meeting of flea market vendors in June. “But it’s far from a given.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11879717/san-jose-approves-plan-to-radically-transform-flea-market-site\">deal to redevelop the current market site on Berryessa Road\u003c/a>, the owners of the flea market and the city are putting $7.5 million into a fund aimed at helping vendors when the market closes, which could come as soon as 2025.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Over the ensuing decades, the land was imagined as a future golf course, a methane power plant and a recreational sports complex, none of which panned out. It sits mostly vacant now, apart from the flare stacks burning off methane — and \u003ca href=\"https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov/SolidWaste/SiteInspection/Details/349860?siteID=3391\">several roosters being raised for cockfighting that city inspectors stumbled across last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The land still holds value: A 2008 city estimate pegged the site’s worth at up to $57 million. It sits along Capitol Expressway and is less than two miles from Highway 101. The size of the site would allow vendors to relocate together, and potentially recreate the cross-pollination of shoppers that takes place at La Pulga. By contrast, the future market space envisioned for the current flea market site (if the current owners find a willing developer) would only have room for some vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Retail is most successful when there is a critical mass of compatible retailers located in the same place,” consultants write in the alternative site presentation to the advisory group. “A smaller market could still succeed, but would need to offer something special or different to attract shoppers and generate sufficient revenue for vendors to make a profit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The methane releases at the Singleton site are unlikely to pose a threat to merchants and shoppers in an open-air market, said Gabriel Filippelli, executive director of the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute. The flaring is a method of managing the gas releases that occur as bacteria consume the materials in the landfill over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general, this kind of reuse — reusing the surface of the landfill for another activity — is viable, and it’s done in a lot of other places, and it can be safe,” said Filippelli, who reviewed the city’s quarterly inspection reports for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A top concern for developing the site, Filippelli added, is ensuring the landfill’s structural integrity in case of an earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960270\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A small structure with a large smokestack is seen from behind a chainlink fence in the center of a large field.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230906-850-SINGLETON-RD-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A methane release structure at 850 Singleton Rd. in San José on Sept. 6, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You always have to remember that you are sitting on a pile of material that has a potential to release toxins,” he said. “So, you have to keep monitoring it, you have to keep checking it, and of course, if there’s any seismic disruption or digging or trenching, you have to pay extra special care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alternative site analysis lays out additional concerns: a long public process for development, regulatory hurdles and “significant site work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a heck of a lot to think about if this site could be made to be a home for the vendors,” said Klein, with the city’s Economic Development and Cultural Affairs department, in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city will also need to convince residents near the Singleton landfill that the flea market would be a positive addition to the Seven Trees neighborhood.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#clarify\">This story contains a clarification and correction.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maggie Castellon, 44, manages the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bayfresh_pinateria/\">BayFresh Piñateria\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11951100/san-joses-flea-market-la-pulga-has-new-vendor-group-voicing-its-future\">Berryessa Flea Market\u003c/a> with confident ease. She keeps an eye on the people passing by her stand, searching for potential customers while instructing her brother and her kids to keep the stall clean and organized. The brightly colored piñatas and Mexican candy they sell are lined up in cheerful rows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the candy we have, we work with distributors that import from Mexico,” she said. “Then our piñatas — each style you see is a different family that works on the style.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her family has had a stall at this market since 1974, a little more than a decade after the flea market first opened in 1960 when George Bumb decided to turn an old meat processing plant into a 120-acre outdoor market. It became a hub for thousands of immigrants to start small businesses and build their lives in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the vendors immigrated from Latin America, but there are business people from many other places, too: Vietnam, China, India and Korea, among others. Castellon grew up helping her parents in their stall and recalled how important it was for her to be exposed to many different cultures, languages and religions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of the best pieces of all these different cultures [come] together and [clash] together [in the market],” Castellon said. “It’s beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957363\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957363\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67671_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing earrings in a pink top smiles at the camera in a busy outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67671_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67671_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67671_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67671_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67671_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67671_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maggie Castellon stands in front of her business, the BayFresh Piñateria, at the Berryessa Flea Market in San José on July 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Raphaël Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But this vibrant place, an intersection of so many people and cultures that now call San José home, could soon cease to exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 2000s, BART selected the Berryessa neighborhood as the ideal place for its southernmost stop. As a result, city officials started rezoning the land surrounding the station — including where the market operates — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/planning-division/citywide-planning/urban-villages/berryessa-bart\">to make way for thousands of housing units\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a little over 20 years later, the Berryessa BART station is open and the 120-acre market site could be a perfect location for transit-friendly housing. City officials say when the development they plan to build is complete, it will include 4,000 houses and apartments, acres of public parks, and could create 22,000 jobs in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José, like many California cities, is facing pressure from the state to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938267/to-meet-state-housing-goals-one-bay-area-city-had-to-overcome-its-nimby-past\">meet housing and climate goals\u003c/a>. For city planners, dense housing developments near regional transit stations appear to be the perfect solution.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maggie Castellon, manager, BayFresh Piñateria\"]‘The funds that come from the flea market are able to supply food and additional payments. Having a second income seems to be the way a lot of residents in San José are having to go.’[/pullquote]“From a good development standpoint, [the Berryessa Flea Market] would have to be put into other economic uses,” said San José Councilmember David Cohen. “At that time, the council did not take any action to determine what would happen to the flea market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of planning for their future has infuriated some vendors. The market is their livelihood. Maggie Castellon’s family is lucky; she has a full-time job as a courtroom clerk that anchors them. But, they still depend on proceeds from the stall to cover expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The funds that come from the flea market are able to supply food and additional payments,” she said. “Having a second income seems to be the way a lot of residents in San José are having to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957361\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67669_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two large white piñata unicorns in front of a stall full of wares.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67669_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67669_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67669_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67669_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67669_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67669_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wares for sale at the Berryessa Flea Market. \u003ccite>(Raphaël Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In late 2020, a small group of vendors formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thebfva.org/\">Berryessa Flea Market Vendors Association\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878548/san-jose-flea-market-leaders-end-hunger-strike-but-future-of-la-pulga-still-hangs-in-the-balance\">led protests and hunger strikes\u003c/a> to petition the city to include the vendors in conversations about the flea market’s future. This year, the city created an advisory committee tasked with drafting a transition plan for the vendors as the market closes. Maggie is a member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their advocacy efforts have made an impact. The city council recently set aside 5 acres in the new development plan for an outdoor market. Cohen and other city officials say they will do everything they can to encourage whoever builds the housing to continue the flea market. But there’s no guarantee the developer will follow the city’s advice. No matter what happens, the market would be significantly smaller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67679_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Vendors stalls with people walking by are seen in front of a large public transit station.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67679_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67679_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-18-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67679_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-18-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67679_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67679_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67679_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-18-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Berryessa Flea Market and BART station. \u003ccite>(Raphaël Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some vendors, including Castellon, see the 5-acre plan as a paltry commitment. They don’t want to wait for a spot in a market that may not have space for them. Instead, they’re working with the city to find an alternative spot in San José where all the vendors can move together to start a new flea market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re considering the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, the Reid-Hillview Airport and the Singleton Road disposal site. The city promised to investigate each option, but officials haven’t committed to any particular site yet. Meanwhile, the Berryessa Flea Market’s owners announced in July that they expect to start issuing eviction notices in January 2024. The vendors will then have a year to move out from whenever they receive an eviction notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on San José' tag='san-jose']Castellon hopes the city will step in and find a solution for the vendors, but is willing to leave the city and start a market elsewhere if she has to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to have hope, but you also have to have initiative and motivation,” she said. “And that’s what we’re going to do. [We’re] just going to make it happen, whether it’s in San José or in another city, with the goal being for us to stay here. But if we’re not going to be welcomed in San José, then we’ll make it happen elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Castellon and the other vendors may get a temporary reprieve. Fears of a recession have developers canceling and stalling housing projects. Subsequently, the owners of the flea market still haven’t found a developer to take on the project, partially because of its size and the current economic climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The environment isn’t ideal now,” Cohen said. “Chances are the market’s going to be open even longer than people thought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"clarify\">\u003c/a>This story has been updated to reflect that flea market vendors can expect to begin receiving eviction notices in January, 2024, and not October, 2023 as the story previously stated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Aug. 13: An earlier version of this story stated Reid Hillview Airport is closed when it is still open for business. This story has been edited to correct the inaccuracy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the vendors immigrated from Latin America, but there are business people from many other places, too: Vietnam, China, India and Korea, among others. Castellon grew up helping her parents in their stall and recalled how important it was for her to be exposed to many different cultures, languages and religions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of the best pieces of all these different cultures [come] together and [clash] together [in the market],” Castellon said. “It’s beautiful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957363\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957363\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67671_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing earrings in a pink top smiles at the camera in a busy outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67671_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67671_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67671_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67671_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67671_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67671_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maggie Castellon stands in front of her business, the BayFresh Piñateria, at the Berryessa Flea Market in San José on July 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Raphaël Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But this vibrant place, an intersection of so many people and cultures that now call San José home, could soon cease to exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 2000s, BART selected the Berryessa neighborhood as the ideal place for its southernmost stop. As a result, city officials started rezoning the land surrounding the station — including where the market operates — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/planning-division/citywide-planning/urban-villages/berryessa-bart\">to make way for thousands of housing units\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, a little over 20 years later, the Berryessa BART station is open and the 120-acre market site could be a perfect location for transit-friendly housing. City officials say when the development they plan to build is complete, it will include 4,000 houses and apartments, acres of public parks, and could create 22,000 jobs in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José, like many California cities, is facing pressure from the state to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938267/to-meet-state-housing-goals-one-bay-area-city-had-to-overcome-its-nimby-past\">meet housing and climate goals\u003c/a>. For city planners, dense housing developments near regional transit stations appear to be the perfect solution.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“From a good development standpoint, [the Berryessa Flea Market] would have to be put into other economic uses,” said San José Councilmember David Cohen. “At that time, the council did not take any action to determine what would happen to the flea market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of planning for their future has infuriated some vendors. The market is their livelihood. Maggie Castellon’s family is lucky; she has a full-time job as a courtroom clerk that anchors them. But, they still depend on proceeds from the stall to cover expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The funds that come from the flea market are able to supply food and additional payments,” she said. “Having a second income seems to be the way a lot of residents in San José are having to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957361\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67669_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two large white piñata unicorns in front of a stall full of wares.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67669_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67669_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67669_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67669_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67669_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67669_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wares for sale at the Berryessa Flea Market. \u003ccite>(Raphaël Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In late 2020, a small group of vendors formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.thebfva.org/\">Berryessa Flea Market Vendors Association\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878548/san-jose-flea-market-leaders-end-hunger-strike-but-future-of-la-pulga-still-hangs-in-the-balance\">led protests and hunger strikes\u003c/a> to petition the city to include the vendors in conversations about the flea market’s future. This year, the city created an advisory committee tasked with drafting a transition plan for the vendors as the market closes. Maggie is a member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their advocacy efforts have made an impact. The city council recently set aside 5 acres in the new development plan for an outdoor market. Cohen and other city officials say they will do everything they can to encourage whoever builds the housing to continue the flea market. But there’s no guarantee the developer will follow the city’s advice. No matter what happens, the market would be significantly smaller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957367\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67679_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Vendors stalls with people walking by are seen in front of a large public transit station.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67679_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67679_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-18-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67679_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-18-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67679_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67679_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67679_230729-BERRYESSA-FLEA-MARKET-RT-18-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Berryessa Flea Market and BART station. \u003ccite>(Raphaël Timmons/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some vendors, including Castellon, see the 5-acre plan as a paltry commitment. They don’t want to wait for a spot in a market that may not have space for them. Instead, they’re working with the city to find an alternative spot in San José where all the vendors can move together to start a new flea market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re considering the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, the Reid-Hillview Airport and the Singleton Road disposal site. The city promised to investigate each option, but officials haven’t committed to any particular site yet. Meanwhile, the Berryessa Flea Market’s owners announced in July that they expect to start issuing eviction notices in January 2024. The vendors will then have a year to move out from whenever they receive an eviction notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Castellon hopes the city will step in and find a solution for the vendors, but is willing to leave the city and start a market elsewhere if she has to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to have hope, but you also have to have initiative and motivation,” she said. “And that’s what we’re going to do. [We’re] just going to make it happen, whether it’s in San José or in another city, with the goal being for us to stay here. But if we’re not going to be welcomed in San José, then we’ll make it happen elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Castellon and the other vendors may get a temporary reprieve. Fears of a recession have developers canceling and stalling housing projects. Subsequently, the owners of the flea market still haven’t found a developer to take on the project, partially because of its size and the current economic climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The environment isn’t ideal now,” Cohen said. “Chances are the market’s going to be open even longer than people thought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"clarify\">\u003c/a>This story has been updated to reflect that flea market vendors can expect to begin receiving eviction notices in January, 2024, and not October, 2023 as the story previously stated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Aug. 13: An earlier version of this story stated Reid Hillview Airport is closed when it is still open for business. This story has been edited to correct the inaccuracy.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Katrina Ramos White pulls open the gate of the stall that houses her family’s toy business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s 8 a.m. on a Saturday at San José’s Berryessa Flea Market and dozens of other businesses are already up and running at this swap meet — one of the biggest in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos White and her husband, Russ White, quickly set up their stall: assembling several tables where they place rows of colorful toys of all sizes, plush figurines, board games and bright backpacks all over the stall and winding up mechanical toys so kids walking by can play with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC8709579774\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos White’s parents, Kim and Tony Ramos, opened up the stand in 1984 and worked there on the weekends for extra income. Monday through Friday, they both worked at Texas Instruments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos White and her siblings grew up running around the dozens of aisles of La Pulga, as the 61-year-old market is also known, making friends with the kids of other vendors. Their stall, one of more than 700 that make up the market, is now run by Katrina and Russ, who operate it on the weekends and work full-time tech jobs during the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2046px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11916752\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2046\" height=\"1363\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-2.jpg 2046w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2046px) 100vw, 2046px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katrina Ramos White and her husband, Russ White, pose for a portrait outside their home in San José. The couple is part of a younger generation of San José residents who entered the tech industry to have financial stability — but still have to work several jobs to get close to achieving their dream of owning their own home.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The flea market is one of those places where you can still see the same vendors’ faces, you can get a bag of roasted peanuts,” Ramos White said. “It’s those little parts of what made up San José’s energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But La Pulga is only a couple years away from closing down and restructuring itself within the new Berryessa BART Urban Village — construction of which is set to begin in the summer of 2024. San José officials and members of the Bumb family, which owns the 60 acres of land the flea market sits on, have repeatedly told vendors that \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-berryessa-flea-market-fees-frustrate-vendors/\">the market won’t close forever\u003c/a>, but instead will shrink to a space of just 5 acres. Office buildings, condominiums and new shops will be built on the remaining space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Katrina Ramos White, flea market vendor\"]‘The flea market is one of those places where you can still see the same vendors’ faces … it’s those little parts of what made up San José’s energy.’[/pullquote]City officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments/planning-building-code-enforcement/planning-division/citywide-planning/urban-villages/urban-village-plans-under-development/berryessa-bart\">approved this plan last summer\u003c/a>, but since then, property developers have not provided much information on how hundreds of stalls — which provide an extensive range of goods including furniture, produce, crafts and clothing — will fit inside the much smaller space. This leaves many vendors feeling they have no other choice but to develop their own exit strategies if their business is not included in the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos White is part of a younger generation of San José residents who grew up at the market and are now employed in the tech industry — balancing two sides of San José. “It just feels like Big Tech is coming in and steamrolling all the little people out,” she said, “which is hard to say because I work in Big Tech. But my roots are at the flea market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2047px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11916753\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12.jpg\" alt=\"Katrina Ramos White and Russell White stand inside their stall moving metal hangers around and hanging plush figurines. They are surrounded by toys of many shapes, sizes and colors.\" width=\"2047\" height=\"1364\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12.jpg 2047w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-12-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2047px) 100vw, 2047px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramos White and her siblings grew up running around the dozens of aisles of La Pulga, while their parents worked at the toy stall. Her parents, Kim and Tony Ramos, are now retired. They worked for decades at the flea market on the weekends at the same time they had full-time jobs during weekdays. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A safety net\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Kim and Tony Ramos retired at the start of 2020 from both their full-time jobs and the flea market, they gave their children the option of either continuing to run their stall until La Pulga eventually closes, or close it before then, and sell off the inventory. Ramos White wasn’t ready to say goodbye to the stall, so she and her husband have kept the family business open — at least, for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something that we could do for the next few years, especially with the end kind of nearing,” Ramos White said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"arts_13905374\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/006_SanJose_BerryessaFleaMarket_10222021-1920x1280.jpg\"]Ramos White is a community product manager at MyHealthTeam, a social networking app for people who have similar chronic illnesses to cultivate communities. White works in marketing for Dripto, a new cryptocurrency company. Both are in their late 20s, and they want to start a family in a home of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple currently lives at home with Ramos White’s parents, just a few miles away from the flea market. By working at both their full-time jobs and at La Pulga on the weekends, they are saving as much as they can to afford buying a house of their own someday — but when they drive around San José today, a future there feels unattainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11916754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-3.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-3-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-3-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-3-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim and Tony Ramos (front) have seen many of their children leave the Bay Area due to the high cost of living. ‘I don’t have any little grandkids around me anymore, like I used to,’ Kim Ramos said. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Right down the street from where I grew up, these luxury condos and townhouses are popping up,” Ramos White said. “My husband and I, who make a decent amount, still wouldn’t be able to afford a one-bedroom apartment. I always dreamed about living in the same neighborhood, sending my kids to the same schools I went to. That’s not a reality unless we want to just live with my parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, only 32% of potential first-time home buyers could afford a median-priced home in Santa Clara County, \u003ca href=\"https://jointventure.org/download-the-2022-index#:~:text=Download%20the%202022%20Silicon%20Valley%20Index&text=Updated%20annually%2C%20it%20is%20a,for%20leadership%20and%20decision%20making\">according to an annual report from Joint Venture Silicon Valley\u003c/a>, a think tank organization based in the South Bay. Over the past few years, Ramos White’s older siblings have moved out of California to find cheaper real estate. Now the family gets together a few times a year, as opposed to every night when everyone was living in the Bay Area. It’s been hard for her mom, Kim, to adjust to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have any little grandkids around me anymore, like I used to,” Kim Ramos said. “I used to look forward to getting out of work and going to pick up the two little ones and bring them home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Katrina Ramos White, flea market vendor\"]‘I always dreamed about living in the same neighborhood, sending my kids to the same schools I went to. That’s not a reality unless we want to just live with my parents.’[/pullquote]It would have been impossible for Kim and Tony Ramos to buy their own home and raise their kids without the income from their toy stall, said Tony. The stall served as a sort of safety net that helped smooth over rough patches when their weekday jobs cut back on hours or expenses went up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to San José State. My older brother and older sister went to San José State, and the flea market paid for all of that,” Ramos White said. “Especially during the recession in 2008. My mom always says that the flea market really kept our family afloat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim and Tony are now enjoying retirement after decades of working every weekend at the toy stall. They are happy that Ramos White and her siblings went to college and have stable jobs, but realize their family’s relationship with the flea market is different from that of other families who solely rely on the flea market to pay the bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see people who are totally dependent on the flea market and it’s a different kind of scenario [for them],” said Tony. “There is no way out. They are hurting, but for us, we’re maintaining it [for] those times that Silicon Valley is up and down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11916758\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-21.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-21-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-21-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-21-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-21-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/Image-from-iOS-21-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When the end of the day draws near, Katrina and Russ begin to pack up their stall, including hundreds of toys. Russ worries that a lot of the original essence of La Pulga will be lost if it becomes a digital marketplace. ‘How many vendors at the flea market are going to be selling their fruits online?’ he asks. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>An online flea market? It’s just not the same\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bumb family and the city of San José have been negotiating about how to downsize the flea market since 2007. That’s when the city voted to rezone the land as a “mixed-use transit village,” surrounding the new BART station, which opened last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of 2020, a group of vendors formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berryessafleamarketvendorsassociation\">Berryessa Flea Market Vendor Association\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878548/san-jose-flea-market-leaders-end-hunger-strike-but-future-of-la-pulga-still-hangs-in-the-balance\">organized extensively to ensure that no vendors are displaced\u003c/a> as the Berryessa BART Urban Village is developed. City officials have been trying to work with vendors to potentially move their small businesses to an online marketplace, in case they do not have a spot in the reimagined indoor marketplace within the Urban Village.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11879717\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49568_014_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-1-1020x680.jpg\"]While a few vendors are embracing the shift to a digital marketplace, many lament what will be lost when the sights, sounds, smells and conversations that can be enjoyed in a huge, bustling flea market give way to something much smaller, much more sedate, sandwiched inside a mixed-use development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many vendors at the flea market are going to be selling their fruits online?” asked White. “People will literally drive two hours from home to go to the San José flea market. [Closing it] will forever change things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike his wife, White didn’t grow up going to the flea market each weekend; he started working at the toy stall as an adult. In his time working at the stall, he’s learned how other vendors and customers barter and haggle, skills that he believes give swap meets their character and energy — and that can’t be easily substituted online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Pulga is a place where so many immigrant families and their children come together to make their dreams of financial stability a reality, Ramos White said. Waking up at dawn, knowing how to pull in customers, haggling to never lose a sale and staying past sunset to clean up — that’s the hustle culture that she says defines the energy of both the market and the families that have made it into a San José landmark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Stories from the South Bay' tag='san-jose']“Being children of immigrants, we know that they came to this country to give us a better life and everything that we do was built on their backs,” she said. “If you need to make money, you need to make money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s inherited this mentality from her parents, but has also incorporated what she’s learned from her own experiences at La Pulga. As she and Russ prepare for potentially letting go of their stall in a couple years, they’re not letting go of their dream of buying a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that the hundreds of families who work at the flea market are going to keep hustling to survive in the Bay Area, with or without La Pulga. “People’s backs are going to be up against the wall and they are going to make it happen because that’s all we know how to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It will be really difficult to get through this, for me and for so many others that depend on the flea market.’[/pullquote]“¡Sí se pudo! ¡Sí se puede!” they cheered as they chewed their first bites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The celebratory breaking of bread came after the San Jose City Council on Wednesday agreed to a weeklong postponement of a vote on whether to allow the rezoning of a 60-acre site in the northern part of the city where a storied, sprawling outdoor flea market has operated for more than 70 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of small businesses run stalls at the San Jose Flea Market, or La Pulga, as it’s known in Spanish. But the proposed development, dubbed the Berryessa BART Urban Village, which would be built next to the city’s new and only BART station, would radically alter the property — and the market — to make way for more than 3 million square feet of office and retail space, and some 3,400 housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]The hunger strike was organized by the Berryessa Flea Market Vendors Association (BFVA), a group created late last year in opposition to the proposed development. While its leaders initially demanded the vote be delayed by 90 days, González, the group’s president and a vendor at the market, said the extra week is enough time to reach a new deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a great victory for us today,” he said. “The struggle is not over. We will continue on till we find those securities and those assurances for every single vendor and for all of our small businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landowners’ proposal includes a concession of five acres for a new “urban market” set aside for La Pulga vendors. But that would shrink the flea market to less than a third of its current size, falling far short of accommodating the majority of its vendors. And the construction process alone could displace vendors for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878773 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000.jpg\" alt=\"The concept map created by the both the developers and owners of the Flea Market site that shows what the property could look like with an urban village if San Jose approves its rezoning request. The Berryessa/North San Jose BART station is visible on the upper part of the map.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A concept map of the proposed new development, which would abut the Berryessa/North San Jose BART station. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the city of San Jose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the Bumb family, which has owned the land for generations, offered $2 million earlier this month toward a fund to support vendors if the rezoning plan is approved, vendors point out that once this amount is divided among hundreds of business owners and their employees, each person would receive about $4,000 — not nearly enough to make it through multiple months without any additional income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let the city know that these plans were insufficient for the most part,” González explained. “We need direct involvement with the community and with the vendors to find a good solution to this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BFVA later responded with its own set of demands, including five-year leases for all vendors and $2 million for an extensive third-party analysis to determine how the market could sustainably operate in the future and where it could potentially relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at Wednesday’s council meeting, Erik Schoennauer, a land-use consultant who represents the Bumb family, warned council members that if they delayed the vote, his clients would take everything they’re currently offering off the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Either approve the urban village plan and the new project that is before you or we move forward and develop the project that’s already approved,” Schoennauer told councilmembers, referring to a previous rezoning plan authorized in 2007 that includes no vendor space or affordable housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any delay, any denial, and we simply build [that] project,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some city leaders, including Mayor Sam Liccardo, have signaled the city has too much to lose if the Bumb family pulls out on its current proposal, others aren’t buying the threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s absolutely posturing,” said Councilmember Raul Peralez after voting Wednesday in favor of the continuance. “I don’t think they’re going to walk away at all. There’s a lot at stake for them as well and I think we will come to an agreement next week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Something I’m Proud of’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a recent day at La Pulga, rows of piñatas hang over the entrance to Ana Vázquez’s stall, gently greeting visitors with a tap on their heads. She carefully sets down a clay pot, painted and glazed with leaves, flowers and geometric designs, next to a jar full of almond-powder candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than 30 years, Vázquez has taken care of her stall, one of the roughly 750 that make up the the flea market, among the biggest swap meets in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People from all over come to find goods here, like clay jugs or candy,” Vázquez said in Spanish, noting that many of the items in her stall can only be found in Mexico and Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have clients who send dulce de leche all the way to their children who now live in New York,” she said, referring to the popular Latin American dessert made of sweetened condensed milk. “This is something I’m proud of. It makes me proud when I hear folks say, ‘Let’s go to the tiendita.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Ana Vázquez, a merchant at the San Jose Flea Market, stands next to her stall.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Vázquez, a merchant at the San Jose Flea Market, stands next to her stall on May 28, 2021, where she and her family have sold sweets, craftwork and other artisan goods from Mexico and Central America for more than 30 years. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>La Pulga first opened up in 1960, when farms crisscrossed the northern part of the city. La Pulga, as the market is also known in Spanish, had plenty of space to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But northern San Jose is no longer the agricultural area it once was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban villages and condominium developments have popped up where orchards once stood. Almost every 15 minutes, BART trains roll into the Berryessa/North San Jose station, which opened up in June 2020. The arrival of BART into the city seemed to mark a new chapter in San Jose’s transformation into a major metropolitan hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a while now, Vázquez has feared that the flea market would be surrounded, and eventually replaced, by luxury condominium developments, pushing out hundreds of businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our only income comes from here,” said Vazquez, pointing to her stall. “At our age, it’s not easy finding a new job. It will be really difficult to get through this, for me and for so many others that depend on the flea market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Chau Nguyen stands next to her stall covered in the luggage bags and backpacks she sells.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chau Nguyen stands in front of her luggage and backpack stall at La Pulga on May 28, 2021. She has worked here for 28 years, starting her stall just a few months after she arrived in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chau Nguyen, 70, has sold luggage and handbags at her stall at La Pulga since 1993, starting the business just a few months after arriving in the U.S. from Vietnam. If the flea market closes during construction of the new development, or if her stall isn’t included in the proposed smaller market, she doesn’t know what she’ll do to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s my job,” she said. “Even though I’m over 70 years old … I still like to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen doesn’t receive Social Security benefits, so whatever she earns from her business is what keeps her and husband afloat. She also has family still in Vietnam that she tries to send money to when she can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Pulga vendors have formed networks across the Bay Area of suppliers and other small businesses who depend on the flea market, even if they don’t work there themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Davila stands in front of his stall that is covered in jerseys of different soccer teams in all different sizes. They hang next to him, on top of him, all around him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With family in Peru that depend on him financially, Mario Davila — seen here on May 28, 2021 — has a lot at stake in the future of La Pulga. He’s owned his sporting goods business for over a decade and has recently joined other merchants to demand the city delay its vote on whether to rezone the property. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mario Davila, 50, loves soccer, perhaps as much as he loves being at La Pulga. He’s worked there for 21 years, and for him, it’s irreplaceable. “We want people to come and spend their Sunday here, for them to find food, have fun,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Cayetano Araújo, a La Pulga vendor\"]‘We are not opposed to [the developers’] plans but we’re against not being included in the plans.’[/pullquote]Davila supports his family in Peru with his earnings, and for him, like other vendors at the market, the stakes of the pending land-use decision are high. “It’s not easy finding a job outside,” he said. “We’re not a burden to anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"la-pulga\"]Cayetano Araújo, 65, who sells dry fruits, peanuts and other snacks at La Pulga, says that if his business doesn’t survive the market’s transformation, it will be more than just his family who are impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Behind me there are my suppliers. Those are three different families,” he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not opposed to [the developers’] plans but we’re against not being included in the plans,” he added, contending that the perspective of vendors has never really been taken into consideration during the years-long process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if all the vendors can squeeze inside the proposed smaller market space, Araújo says it would change the essence of La Pulga, a place where visitors are encouraged to move around freely through the massive market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many families come to stroll around with their kids. This is a flea market for relaxing and moving around, amusement, strolling around, enjoying a snack, a beverage, all of that,” he said. “This tradition of 80 or so years would be lost in one moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878767 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Cayetano Araújo speaks with a customer that is wearing a cowboy hat at his stall on Wednesday, May 26, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cayetano Araújo speaks with a customer at his dried fruit and snack stall on May 26, 2021 at La Pulga. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Two Possible Futures for San Jose\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But the sprawl exemplified by La Pulga and the surrounding area has increasingly fallen out of favor with San Jose officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the city adopted its master plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/22359/637394795874170000\">Envision San Jose 2040\u003c/a>, that encourages the development of higher-density, mixed-use urban villages built near transportation sites, with the goal of reducing traffic congestion and carbon emissions and increasing housing supply near the city center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan prioritizes development in northern San Jose, specifically the Berryessa area, where the new BART station was built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a transit hub at the end-of-the-line BART station … getting a dense urban village there is important,” said David Cohen, a San Jose city councilmember for District 4, which includes the area in question. He voted against Wednesday’s continuance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Building transit-oriented development is the only way that we can sustain our Bay Area environment for the future,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vignesh Swaminathan, a South Bay native and civil engineer who heads Crossroad Labs, a consulting firm, says San Jose has to choose between fully embracing transit-oriented development or seeing the city continue to sprawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Already in San Jose, people are driving two to four hours just to get to work because of financial displacement,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t build densely and decide that we’re going to build a development a few blocks away [from the BART station], then that extra 10-15 minutes to walk from the BART station to that development will be the decision factor for someone not to take BART,” Swaminathan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he acknowledges that while these strategies are meant to reduce congestion and sprawl, they may also inadvertently end up hurting some residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why the flea market is such a complex issue,” he said. “It’s following all the best practices that the city and agencies have been trying to do to try and plan properly. But for the folks who are trying to fight gentrification, fight displacement and accommodate culture, it’s not enough for what we need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The hunger strike was organized by the Berryessa Flea Market Vendors Association (BFVA), a group created late last year in opposition to the proposed development. While its leaders initially demanded the vote be delayed by 90 days, González, the group’s president and a vendor at the market, said the extra week is enough time to reach a new deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a great victory for us today,” he said. “The struggle is not over. We will continue on till we find those securities and those assurances for every single vendor and for all of our small businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landowners’ proposal includes a concession of five acres for a new “urban market” set aside for La Pulga vendors. But that would shrink the flea market to less than a third of its current size, falling far short of accommodating the majority of its vendors. And the construction process alone could displace vendors for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878773\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878773 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000.jpg\" alt=\"The concept map created by the both the developers and owners of the Flea Market site that shows what the property could look like with an urban village if San Jose approves its rezoning request. The Berryessa/North San Jose BART station is visible on the upper part of the map.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/637577159581730000-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A concept map of the proposed new development, which would abut the Berryessa/North San Jose BART station. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the city of San Jose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the Bumb family, which has owned the land for generations, offered $2 million earlier this month toward a fund to support vendors if the rezoning plan is approved, vendors point out that once this amount is divided among hundreds of business owners and their employees, each person would receive about $4,000 — not nearly enough to make it through multiple months without any additional income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We let the city know that these plans were insufficient for the most part,” González explained. “We need direct involvement with the community and with the vendors to find a good solution to this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BFVA later responded with its own set of demands, including five-year leases for all vendors and $2 million for an extensive third-party analysis to determine how the market could sustainably operate in the future and where it could potentially relocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at Wednesday’s council meeting, Erik Schoennauer, a land-use consultant who represents the Bumb family, warned council members that if they delayed the vote, his clients would take everything they’re currently offering off the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Either approve the urban village plan and the new project that is before you or we move forward and develop the project that’s already approved,” Schoennauer told councilmembers, referring to a previous rezoning plan authorized in 2007 that includes no vendor space or affordable housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any delay, any denial, and we simply build [that] project,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some city leaders, including Mayor Sam Liccardo, have signaled the city has too much to lose if the Bumb family pulls out on its current proposal, others aren’t buying the threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s absolutely posturing,” said Councilmember Raul Peralez after voting Wednesday in favor of the continuance. “I don’t think they’re going to walk away at all. There’s a lot at stake for them as well and I think we will come to an agreement next week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Something I’m Proud of’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a recent day at La Pulga, rows of piñatas hang over the entrance to Ana Vázquez’s stall, gently greeting visitors with a tap on their heads. She carefully sets down a clay pot, painted and glazed with leaves, flowers and geometric designs, next to a jar full of almond-powder candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than 30 years, Vázquez has taken care of her stall, one of the roughly 750 that make up the the flea market, among the biggest swap meets in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People from all over come to find goods here, like clay jugs or candy,” Vázquez said in Spanish, noting that many of the items in her stall can only be found in Mexico and Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have clients who send dulce de leche all the way to their children who now live in New York,” she said, referring to the popular Latin American dessert made of sweetened condensed milk. “This is something I’m proud of. It makes me proud when I hear folks say, ‘Let’s go to the tiendita.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878759\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878759\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Ana Vázquez, a merchant at the San Jose Flea Market, stands next to her stall.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Vázquez, a merchant at the San Jose Flea Market, stands next to her stall on May 28, 2021, where she and her family have sold sweets, craftwork and other artisan goods from Mexico and Central America for more than 30 years. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>La Pulga first opened up in 1960, when farms crisscrossed the northern part of the city. La Pulga, as the market is also known in Spanish, had plenty of space to expand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But northern San Jose is no longer the agricultural area it once was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban villages and condominium developments have popped up where orchards once stood. Almost every 15 minutes, BART trains roll into the Berryessa/North San Jose station, which opened up in June 2020. The arrival of BART into the city seemed to mark a new chapter in San Jose’s transformation into a major metropolitan hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a while now, Vázquez has feared that the flea market would be surrounded, and eventually replaced, by luxury condominium developments, pushing out hundreds of businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our only income comes from here,” said Vazquez, pointing to her stall. “At our age, it’s not easy finding a new job. It will be really difficult to get through this, for me and for so many others that depend on the flea market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Chau Nguyen stands next to her stall covered in the luggage bags and backpacks she sells.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_143919-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chau Nguyen stands in front of her luggage and backpack stall at La Pulga on May 28, 2021. She has worked here for 28 years, starting her stall just a few months after she arrived in the U.S. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chau Nguyen, 70, has sold luggage and handbags at her stall at La Pulga since 1993, starting the business just a few months after arriving in the U.S. from Vietnam. If the flea market closes during construction of the new development, or if her stall isn’t included in the proposed smaller market, she doesn’t know what she’ll do to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s my job,” she said. “Even though I’m over 70 years old … I still like to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nguyen doesn’t receive Social Security benefits, so whatever she earns from her business is what keeps her and husband afloat. She also has family still in Vietnam that she tries to send money to when she can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Pulga vendors have formed networks across the Bay Area of suppliers and other small businesses who depend on the flea market, even if they don’t work there themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878769\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878769\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Mario Davila stands in front of his stall that is covered in jerseys of different soccer teams in all different sizes. They hang next to him, on top of him, all around him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/20210528_145400-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With family in Peru that depend on him financially, Mario Davila — seen here on May 28, 2021 — has a lot at stake in the future of La Pulga. He’s owned his sporting goods business for over a decade and has recently joined other merchants to demand the city delay its vote on whether to rezone the property. \u003ccite>(Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mario Davila, 50, loves soccer, perhaps as much as he loves being at La Pulga. He’s worked there for 21 years, and for him, it’s irreplaceable. “We want people to come and spend their Sunday here, for them to find food, have fun,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cayetano Araújo, 65, who sells dry fruits, peanuts and other snacks at La Pulga, says that if his business doesn’t survive the market’s transformation, it will be more than just his family who are impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Behind me there are my suppliers. Those are three different families,” he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not opposed to [the developers’] plans but we’re against not being included in the plans,” he added, contending that the perspective of vendors has never really been taken into consideration during the years-long process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if all the vendors can squeeze inside the proposed smaller market space, Araújo says it would change the essence of La Pulga, a place where visitors are encouraged to move around freely through the massive market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many families come to stroll around with their kids. This is a flea market for relaxing and moving around, amusement, strolling around, enjoying a snack, a beverage, all of that,” he said. “This tradition of 80 or so years would be lost in one moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11878767 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Cayetano Araújo speaks with a customer that is wearing a cowboy hat at his stall on Wednesday, May 26, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RS49561_007_SanJose_FleaMarket_05262021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cayetano Araújo speaks with a customer at his dried fruit and snack stall on May 26, 2021 at La Pulga. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Two Possible Futures for San Jose\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But the sprawl exemplified by La Pulga and the surrounding area has increasingly fallen out of favor with San Jose officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the city adopted its master plan, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/22359/637394795874170000\">Envision San Jose 2040\u003c/a>, that encourages the development of higher-density, mixed-use urban villages built near transportation sites, with the goal of reducing traffic congestion and carbon emissions and increasing housing supply near the city center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan prioritizes development in northern San Jose, specifically the Berryessa area, where the new BART station was built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a transit hub at the end-of-the-line BART station … getting a dense urban village there is important,” said David Cohen, a San Jose city councilmember for District 4, which includes the area in question. He voted against Wednesday’s continuance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Building transit-oriented development is the only way that we can sustain our Bay Area environment for the future,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vignesh Swaminathan, a South Bay native and civil engineer who heads Crossroad Labs, a consulting firm, says San Jose has to choose between fully embracing transit-oriented development or seeing the city continue to sprawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Already in San Jose, people are driving two to four hours just to get to work because of financial displacement,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t build densely and decide that we’re going to build a development a few blocks away [from the BART station], then that extra 10-15 minutes to walk from the BART station to that development will be the decision factor for someone not to take BART,” Swaminathan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he acknowledges that while these strategies are meant to reduce congestion and sprawl, they may also inadvertently end up hurting some residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why the flea market is such a complex issue,” he said. “It’s following all the best practices that the city and agencies have been trying to do to try and plan properly. But for the folks who are trying to fight gentrification, fight displacement and accommodate culture, it’s not enough for what we need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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