Dr. Suzanne Roozendaal, DO leads a bit of a double life catering to two very different passions. In her professional life, she is an Emergency Medicine Physician working in one of Nevada’s Level I Trauma Centers while teaching emergency medicine residents the art of medicine. On the flip side, she is a lifelong connoisseur of cool old stuff. She enjoys breathing new life into items that may otherwise be discarded, and keeping history alive.

 

That second passion has turned into a real footprint in the Arts District. She and her husband, Brent Hoefflin, an architect working in the district, grew their vintage shop Mintless from an 80 sq/ft booth in the back room of Main Street Peddlers into a 2,500 sq/ft store. Right next door in the same building, she partnered with John Tovar to open Reclaim, a vendor-based rack shop supporting young, independent fashion sellers — the two businesses share a corner of Main Street and a monthly First Friday Night Market. A few blocks over, she teamed up with Derek Stonebarger to create Barter Beer + Mall, a beer/wine/seltzer bar built into an artist space and antique mall, hosting weekly events like Punk Rock Bingo, karaoke, and artist workshops. She also holds an ownership stake with Stonebarger’s newest project, Arty’s Steakhouse, opening soon in the Historic Commercial Center on Sahara Avenue — a different part of town, but built on the same instinct for turning old buildings into places people want to gather.

 

Suzanne's instinct — reviving space, backing independent creators, and building foot traffic block by block — is exactly why she’s on the 18b board. As Chair of the Community Committee, she combines her medical background with her investment in the neighborhood to focus on the wellbeing of the district: leading Narcan education and overdose-response training for bar and business staff, and pushing the board to think about the Arts District’s health and safety the same way she thinks about its storefronts — as something worth actively maintaining, not just hoping stays fine.