Derby Lane began hosting the Farmers and Flea Bazaar in November 2025. The spot? An old greyhound track in St. Petersburg at 10490 Gandy Blvd. Organizer Shawn Yang relocated about 150 vendors after his previous site shut down.
Yang had operated the Pinellas Farmers and Flea Market at 13600 Icot Blvd. in Largo since March 2021. Then Pinellas County purchased that 21-acre parcel in November 2023 for $33.3 million, planning to construct a government campus there. County officials forced Yang to shutter his operation from early October through mid-December 2024 because they needed the space to gather hurricane debris.
Plenty of vendors at this new bazaar once worked at the Wagon Wheel Flea Market before it closed in March 2020 during the first coronavirus wave. That operation had run for 54 years at 7801 Park Blvd. in Pinellas Park…