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D.C. Public School officials may have temporarily booted D.C.’s prime flea market in order to build a soccer field on half of its land, but the Georgetown Flea Market will retain its posh address—at least as part of its name. Starting Sunday, vendors will set up shop at what’s now being called the Georgetown Flea Market on U Street, relocated to a parking lot between 13th and 14th Streets. And when the old location reopens in September, only half of the 110 vendors will be returning to the market’s 14-year home on Wisconsin Avenue NW. “It was just a vibrant, alive spot,” says market owner Michael Sussman, explaining his choice of a new location. Sussman says he’s not worried about customers who might be afraid of thrifting at the less ritzy address. “[Our patrons will] travel anywhere for a good flea market,” he says. But vendor Irving Gordon says some of his colleagues might not be quite so willing to make the switch. “There are some [who] come in from Pennsylvania and from suburbs who are really scared out of their minds to go to 13th and U,” Gordon says. “That’s too bad.”