Exterminators found evidence of mice Monday in the Roanoke City Market Building after more than a week of intensive cleanup.

City spokeswoman Melinda Mayo said that Terminix workers have been putting out 250 snap, glue and Tin Cat mousetraps per day.

"We've not found a mouse in any trap for the last three days," Mayo said. But "this morning we found a trap that was tripped, and evidence that a mouse had been there."

She said the tripped trap and evidence were found in the food court on the first floor of the city-owned building.

Mayo wasn't sure exactly what evidence exterminators had found but said they should be issuing a report with more details later this week.

Meanwhile, there's still no word on when the market building might reopen for business.

Robert Parker, a spokesman for the Virginia Department of Health, said there's been a "significant amount of progress" with the cleanup, but that there's really nothing new to report.

"At this time there's still no time frame that's been identified for the permits to be reissued and the building to be reopened," Parker said.

Vendors have requested another meeting with health inspectors Thursday.

The city closed the building Sept. 19 after inspectors from the state health department found evidence of mouse activity at all of the businesses in the market building that sell food.

Inspectors also discovered limited examples of food contamination by mice.

Since then, vendors have been working to clean their spaces. Plumbing, electrical and painting contractors have been handling repairs as well. Vendors have pulled their appliances, including stoves, ovens and refrigerators, to the center of the food court area while they're cleaning their stalls.

"It's going to be probably the cleanest building in downtown at this point," said Anita Wilson, who owns Burger in the Square with her husband, Louis.

Wilson said that Burger in the Square is trying to "weather the storm" while the building remains closed.

"Every day is money, and we're paying our people to come in and help with the cleaning," she said. "It's a lot to pay out when you don't have anything coming in."

Roanoke Councilwoman Gwen Mason briefly stopped in Monday morning's meeting among vendors, city officials and health department officials.

"My sense is the vendors and the city continue to pull together as a team and they've got a ways to go before the state folks will be satisfied that everything is up to snuff," Mason said.

Mayo said that once health inspectors approve of the building and reissue vendor permits, the appliances will have to be replaced in the stalls and reconnected. After that, the fire marshal must inspect the building before it can be reopened for business.