Flea markets
The Bragg Boulevard Flea Market didn't make the 2008 "Big Box Reuse" by Julia Christensen. But the author did put it on her Web site after visiting the market a few years ago.
"The flea market is in a renovated K-Mart. The flea market has lived in the building for many years longer than the K-Mart had been there prior to their abandonment of the building," she wrote.
That's just one of the markets that pack in crowds on the weekends and exist within Fayetteville almost as micro-economies in themselves. Among the others are the US Flea Market Mall on McPherson Church Road and The Great American Market Place near the corner of Raeford and Hope Mills roads.