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Located on 404 Main St. in Downtown Bryan, Sweet Repeat Resale has been home to the latest fad that is thrifting since February. Local owner and Bryan-native, Michael Cordova, opens his doors for customers to enter the world they once knew: their childhood closet. As graffiti paints the walls from the hands of local artists and racks of unique, thrifted finds occupy the store. Michael wanted to build a place that brings happiness out of shoppers.

Michael said he always worked in sales, from selling insurance to working for a flooring start-up company until COVID-19 hit, resulting in him being laid off and searching for another source of income. Michael’s daughter is the reason he started hunting for clothes, he said, by keeping a close eye on her fashion taste and buying clothes he thought she would like. For her birthday, all she wanted to do was thrift.

“I’d really jumped in then into reselling … I guess it was the whole vibe at the time is what attracted me,” Michael said.

Michael began selling clothes online and in Navasota, where he had the opportunity to set up booths outside of stores. Michael said he noticed he did not have the right product and was not making money.

“I stopped selling and I started buying, buying, buying,” Michael said. “Now, I’m hunting for clothing.”

His wife, Cathy Cordova, said they have a room designated to racks of clothes in their house from Michael’s hunting. For the last two years, she said, they were searching for the perfect and affordable storefront to display the business they built on their own while bouncing back from the repercussions of COVID-19. At the intersection of West 23rd and Main Street stands the blessing of a place that the Cordovas said they gained when they saw the building was for sale.

“He had these little corners of the [other] stores, but he was looking for his own store,” Cathy said. “And when this place came up for sale, it was the right timing.”

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