Welcome to

36,000 Square Ft. Of Mid Century, Vintage, and Repurposed Collectibles

26 Glendale Avenue
Asheville, NC
(828) 505-1108

Our Story

At The Regeneration Station we create, build, and integrate seemingly unrelated industries into unique customer experiences, specializing in retail, service, and sustainability.

Our original business, Junk Recyclers Inc. was founded in the summer of 2009. It is a full-service removal company focused on salvaging unwanted items and diverting them from the waste stream.

The Regeneration Station, a natural complement to Junk Recyclers, was founded in tandem as an additional way of diverting unwanted treasures from the landfill. Since inception it has become so much more, now with a focus of becoming the most affordable, versatile, and entertaining shopping experience imaginable. We are not your grandma’s antique mall, we bring life to the shopping experience!

We infuse our lives and our endeavors with sustainability, community, fun, and soul.

We provide a unique and affordable shopping experience for the whole family, featuring uniques, antiques, and fascinating treasures of every kind. This sparks our customer’s curiosity with constantly evolving fun and affordable products and attractions—not grandma’s antique mall.

At the Regeneration Station (TRS), we feature constantly changing one-of-kind inventory in an enthusiastic, fun and music-enriched environment.

No retail product can be more sustainable than a second hand product given a new life. By the nature of reuse and upcycling our products are locally sourced and environmentally conscious.

At TRS, we believe a wildly entertaining shopping experience can be sustainable and affordable.

Our founder, Tyler Garrison

Our Team

Our Store

At the Regeneration Station, you can find all sorts of wonderful items from local artists, music + vinyl, DIY home + furniture, home goods + decor and more!

Although our inventory is always changing, you can get a glimpse of some of the amazing items we carry by browsing through the gallery below. Please note that while we cannot guarantee the availability of these specific items, we encourage you to visit our Instagram page for more current updates. We invite you to come visit our store in person to see our ever-evolving selection of unique and one-of-a-kind items.

Eco-friendly

We have all heard the slogan: Reduce Reuse Recycle. Did you know, however, that Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is a hierarchy with each step being more important that the one that follows? Reducing your consumption of new goods made with modern processes is the first step, reusing previously produced items saves the carbon pollution created by producing new items, and recycling every scrap of waste saves the destruction of the Earth that is required to collect new raw materials. Furthermore, purchasing recycled goods closes the loop and supports those efforts that have gone into preventing waste.

Purchase all of your housewares, furniture, and bedding from The Regeneration Station and you can feel good about being a conscientious consumer. Alternately, choose Junk Recyclers for your waste removal needs and you can know that the bare minimum of your waste will end up in a landfill.

Together we can operate higher on the 3 R’s Cycle because purchasing reused or repurposed items is better than simply buying new items and recycling them when they are broken or worn. Purchasing upcycled items from TRS leads to an overall reduction of pollution and energy use because recycling itself is not free from chemical or carbon emissions. Also, many of our modern materials do not lend themselves easily to being recycled. Secondarily, our repurposed items are more durable than newly purchased items and could last you decades as opposed to years or months for new “Made in China” goods. Another thing to consider is many modern goods are produced with chemical laden particle board and environmentally unsound finishes and processes such as clear-cut forestry, the use of dangerous chemicals, and strip-mined metals and coal.

By shopping at TRS you are supporting local artists, creating jobs in the local economy, and because our materials are collected, reprocessed and recycled locally, you also know a minimum amount of carbon emissions is created during this process. We have even taken this idea of reducing our carbon emissions one step further by fueling our trucks with 100% local BioDiesel made from reused vegetable oil.

Choosing Junk Recyclers for your removal needs as well as shopping at TRS is a simple solution for the problems facing the Earth in today’s globalized consumer society.

Reviews

“They have a little bit of everything, which is what a proper “junktique” should have! Add to that the fact that they offer layaway, as well as free beer every other week, and Asheville has a don’t miss it!”
Kate
"You have got to love this place! Constant inflow of unique and very reasonably priced items. The staff is awesome and all their events are very entertaining and enjoyable!"
Dustin
"Found the perfect sturdy round table. This thing is going to last longer than me. Thanks to Phil and Dustin for delivery as expected; really nice guys. The Regeneration Station is simply a fun place to search for whatever you can’t find in other retail stores."
Nancy
"Love this place. Large selection, unique items & great prices. Very nice & helpful staff."
Rebecca
“Amazing store with amazing friendly faces.”
Jessica
“Staff rocks, products always surprise, the new cafe will be fun, and who doesn’t like free beer Sunday.”
Steven
"Found the perfect sturdy round table. This thing is going to last longer than me. Thanks to Phil and Dustin for delivery as expected; really nice guys. The Regeneration Station is simply a fun place to search for whatever you can’t find in other retail stores."
Nancy
"I visited the Regeneration Station for the first time yesterday. It was a good experience, not only looking for items for the house, but a stroll down memory lane. Driving up from Greenville SC I had hopes that I would find something unique and RS topped my expectations. I will be going back again and also plan on visiting some of the other unique shops in that area of Asheville. Hope to get back up there soon!"
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