City officials shut down a flea market on College Park’s City Hall plaza in March after it had operated for nearly a year.
University of Maryland (UMD) alumnus Ethan Pham, who graduated in 2024, started the market, CP Flea, last May in collaboration with Shop Made in Maryland, a store on the street level of City Hall that sells local art and goods. The year-round market grew to host more than a dozen vendors every other Saturday evening before the city evicted it.
College Park City Manager Kenny Young cited Pham’s lack of permission as the main reason for shutting down the market. He also said vendors were driving their cars on the plaza, where the owners of street-level businesses complained the market blocked their stores and created parking and traffic issues on Knox Road…