Barter Beer & Mall's Suzanne Roozendaal curates a hub for preloved treasures, art and community

Dr. Suzanne Roozendaal splits her professional life between two hospitals and a vibrant creative corridor. At Sunrise Hospital she practices emergency medicine as a level‑1 trauma physician, while at MountainView Hospital she serves as subordinate program manager and oversees the training of medical residents. When she is not in scrubs, Roozendaal frequents the Arts District, where she hunts for mid‑century furniture, vintage clothing, retro Pyrex bakeware, handmade artwork and connects with the independent makers and collectors who have helped define the neighborhood. Her passion for treasure hunting began long before she opened any shop. During medical school she regularly visited the area when few retail options existed. After relocating to the Huntridge district in 2017 with her husband, Brent Hoefflin—an architect—she launched a modest booth inside Main Street Peddlers, an antique promenade that eventually evolved into Mintless, an intimate boutique still housed within the same location. Subsequent ventures included Reclaim, a vendor‑driven space, and, in April 2025, the co‑founding of Barter Beer + Mall with Derek Stonebarger. Barter Beer + Mall occupies 6,000 square feet on the western edge of the Arts District. Its vendors offer vintage apparel, home goods, art and antiques, while the bar pours beer, wine and seltzers. Programming includes karaoke sessions, artist workshops, community meetups and punk‑rock bingo, all intended to nurture a community‑focused atmosphere. Roozendaal, who also holds a seat on the 18b Las Vegas Arts District Board of Directors, has observed the district’s transformation, noting its shift toward a more progressive outlook. While on sabbatical from her hospital duties, she spoke with the Weekly about the satisfaction of giving aged objects a second life and the importance of building community ties. When asked whether she ever imagined the Arts District would reach its current stature, she replied, “I had travel down present erstwhile I was successful aesculapian schoolhouse regularly and astatine that clip determination were a mates of antique stores and Art Bar. You would spell determination and leave. But I knew it was a peculiar place, it’s a spot that radical person enactment their humor sweat and tears into. … They’ve cultivated this country that cipher would spell to 20 years agone and made it into thing radical privation to beryllium a portion of.” Regarding the rapid development surrounding Barter Beer + Mall, she said, “Yeah, I deliberation we’re going to commencement increasing this way. I deliberation we’re hoping to beryllium the catalyst of this Arts District West area.” On timing the launch amid rising rents and developer interest, she remarked, “Well, that’s benignant of wherefore we did it. You’ve got these developers coming successful and radical who are trying to get a portion of the action, and due to the fact that of that, rents are rising. So, the radical who built this country are getting are getting priced out.” She explained the motivation behind the venue’s model with Derek Stonebarger: “Derek [Stonebarger] and I were like, however bash we make a abstraction wherever radical tin spend to sell, but they don’t person to beryllium present each the time? They tin inactive person a job, they inactive tin beryllium originative and they inactive tin person this beryllium a portion of their life.” Describing how she and Stonebarger first connected, she noted, “Yes, I joined the 18b Board [of Directors] 2 oregon 3 years ago, and we didn’t cognize each different then, which is weird due to the fact that we’re similar long-lost siblings. Derek and I created the space, we created the concept, we enactment the brass tacks down. But it’s the vendors who make the space. It’s perpetually changing and this country ne’er looks the aforesaid erstwhile I locomotion in, each vendor has their ain thing. We wanted it to be eclectic.” When informed that the venue now hosts roughly forty vendors, she observed, “We’re yet astatine the constituent wherever we’re wholly afloat and person a waiting list, and that’s an breathtaking spot to be. There’s a debased rent, a 10% committee and everybody pitches successful and works a fewer hours a week. The different happening we truly wanted to bash was marque this a assemblage space. Our vendors are capable to enactment on escaped events and they tin bash their trade and bring radical in. We person punk stone bingo, we person karaoke, and meetups.” Asked whether her hospital colleagues are aware of her creative pursuits, she answered, “They each deliberation I’m nuts! No, I deliberation they admit that I person a originative outlet. Actually, comic story: One of my colleagues came up to maine the different day, and she’s like, “So, like, are you gonna leave? Are you retiring? What is going on? And I said, you know, everybody’s got a hobby, right? Some radical similar to play golf, immoderate radical similar to person kids. I similar to person businesses and make things, and I inactive emotion the enactment of hunting retired chill worldly and fixing it up. I emotion refinishing worldly and conscionable making it past truthful it doesn’t extremity up successful a trash pile.”