The Good Booty Flea was scheduled to bring 150 vintage sellers, artists and craftspeople to 6800 Fashion Place in Laurel, Maryland, for a British-style car boot sale. The planned outdoor market was set to pair secondhand fashion and art finds with live music and food trucks, as the first big public gathering on a property used for sand and gravel mining for decades before its planned redevelopment.
The scheduled flea market was set to bring 150 vintage sellers, artists and craftspeople alongside live music and food trucks. The event was designed around traditional British car boot sales, where vendors sell curated secondhand items directly out of vehicle trunks and pop-up booths, according to The Laurel Independent.
The market was organized by USAN USAN, a D.C.-based arts platform whose founders include Ally Mumm and Peter Chang and which has also produced the Umbrella Art Fair and Redeye Night Market, per Eventbrite listings for the event. To recruit its roster of sellers, the same listing notes, Good Booty Flea partnered with established DMV vintage and artisan networks including Bmore Flea, Shop Made in DC, Vintage Vintage Vintage, Get Flee Marketplace, and Street Market Gallery.
No Fees for Vendors, Free Entry for Shoppers
Organizers planned to waive vendor participation fees for vintage sellers, artists, and curators to lower financial barriers for creative small businesses, while keeping entry and parking free for shoppers. The Laurel Independent's reporting on the market also notes that organizers had targeted an inaugural turnout between 3,000 and 5,000 visitors for the debut.
Free live sets curated by Songbyrd Music House, the independent D.C. venue based in Union Market, were scheduled, with performances by regional acts ENSLOW, Ammonite, Ebb & Nova, June Star, and Mustard Tiger, according to the event listing on MATO Events.
A Former Gravel Pit Set for Its First Big Crowd
The flea market was scheduled to be the first major public event on the 400-acre Konterra Town Center East district, part of a 2,000-acre census-designated region, which officially broke ground in May 2026 after decades of planning, the same Laurel Independent report states. The land underlying Konterra was originally acquired by Gould Property Co. in the early 1980s and had operated as a sand and gravel mining site dating back to the 1930s, according to Bisnow. The site's first residential phase includes 220 townhomes scheduled for initial delivery later this year, per the same outlet's coverage.
The planned vendor-driven flea market is a notable placemaking move for a site still years from being fully built out, and it fits a model USAN USAN has leaned on elsewhere. The organization's event approach operates without taking traditional sales commissions, directing over $1 million to artists since its founding, according to Modern Luxury.
Borrowing a British Blueprint
Car boot sales have long been a staple of secondhand retail in the United Kingdom, where sellers trade goods from vehicle trunks and pop-up displays, per reporting from The Guardian. Good Booty Flea's scheduled outdoor market borrowed that British-style approach, with a fee-free vendor model.
Whether Good Booty Flea becomes a recurring fixture at Konterra as the site's townhomes begin delivering, and how future pop-up events might coexist with permanent retail tenants once they arrive, remains to be seen. The scheduled debut was set to offer Laurel shoppers vintage fashion, art, and live music on ground that spent most of the last century as a quarry.
