As of yesterday, event organizer Phillip Dane said he expects 38 or 40 trucks. Dane, who founded the Melrose Trading Post flea market in 1991 and the (now closed) Dodger stadium flea market, said that trucks were such a huge draw at the Dodger stadium market that he wanted to focus on them in his new project.

With its exposed wood beams, rustic furniture and stacks of old magazines, Philip Dane's is designed to feel like a cozy lodge, a lodge that just happens to sport a big walk-in humidor, an antique Coke machine, and a flashy new espresso machine.

Dane says that, despite its official-sounding name, the Art Walk Los Angeles nonprofit has no authority to demand fees from anyone: “Tomorrow I can start a 501(c)3, call it a nonprofit, name it the Downtown Art Walk 'Coalition' and claim that I'm the guy that handles Art Walk.”

After a career of producing outdoor markets and festivals, the husband-and-wife team of Phillip and Shelly Dane will be opening their first permanent boutique in downtown Los Angeles.

We Angelenos go gaga for burgeoning flea markets in this city like tourists for L.A. landmarks. Adding to the throng of artisanal havens, Phillip Dane (curator of Dodger Stadium Flea, Downtown Flea, and Melrose Flea) launches...

It's been a bit of a roller coaster for Phillip Dane, the man behind the South Park Flea Market, which changed names a number of times and ultimately died in its Downtown location. But then it sprung up once again as the Woodman Avenue Market at the Westfield Fashion Square in...

L.A. Flea Market: Q&A with the man behind the event Sunday at Dodger Stadium

There have been a whole lot of food truck festivals over the past year or so, but Phillip Dane, organizer of L.A. Flea Market, is gunning for a big-tent show at Union Station in March called, wait for it, “TruckIt Fest.” Dane is bringing 40 trucks together