An Orlando developer is planning a huge new food truck park and entertainment venue south of Kissimmee with capacity for 40 food trucks in one park.
Realtrack Inc. bought the 6-acre commercial site on Poinciana Boulevard near the intersection with Crescent Lakes Way in February for $2 million. Realtrack President Aamir Waheed plans to invest up to $8 million on the venue and hopes to be open by this time next year, according to a report in GrowthSpotter.
He said he initially planned to build a strip center with self-storage or a car wash on the site. “And then the idea just popped in my head that instead of doing that, I’ve seen some food truck places, and I said why not build a venue where you have entertainment? Where it’s a family venue where everybody can come and you have 40 different restaurants in one place.”
He said Street Feast would have a beer garden and live entertainment ranging from musical acts, comedy, karaoke and trivia. It will also have an arcade, playground and splash park and enough covered seating for over 700 visitors. “This isn’t a bunch of food trucks in a parking lot. This is a purpose-built design,” he said.
Waheed has a long business relationship with architect Paul Medley and worked with him to design the oval-shaped park.
The project will have parking for 40 food trucks surrounding a central building and stage/bandshell (yellow) and arcade (red). Each food truck stall will have a permanent canopy to for weather protection. (Rendering by PNM Architecture)
The food truck park is called Street Feast. Just past the entrance gate is the large pavilion that provides cover for 74 picnic tables. (Rendering by PNM Architecture)
The food truck park would have a playground and splash pad for the kids. (Rendering by PNM Architecture)
The project has bar service and plenty of outdoor seating under the pavilion and 14 umbrella-covered picnic tables. (Rendering by PNM Architecture)
Cabanas can be rented to provide comfortable seating and covered dining areas. Each cabana holds up to 12 people. (Rendering by PNM Architecture)
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Kissimmee is already home to the region’s largest food truck park, World Food Trucks, since 2019. It has a line up of 70 food trucks parked behind the Visitors Flea Market on U.S. 192.
Osceola County planners gave the new project an enthusiastic thumbs-up during a pre-application meeting Tuesday with planning consultant Jim Hall, who said the project will help fill a need for food and beverage in the underserved Poinciana submarket.
“We hear that from people in Poinciana all the time,” planner Photenie Burnett said. “And this is certainly a concept — kind of like a food court — that has gained a lot of popularity and traction. I mean, you’d get a huge variety of options. You could have a family of five and eat at five different restaurants in one night, so why not?”
Burnette said the project will need only a minor PD amendment to clarify certain standards, such as parking, buffers, seating and hours of operation.
Waheed said the park was designed with the permanent buildings and landscaping behind the stage and bandshell to help buffer any noise for the adjoining neighborhood to the west. The pavilion and about half of the food truck canopies will support roughly 5,000 square feet of solar panels to provide sustainable energy to the facility. The plan also shows five rental cabanas, each with capacity for 12 guests, with plush seating and covered dining.
Diners would be able to walk the covered promenade to see all the food trucks or use QR codes to order from multiple trucks. Waheed said each food truck space would have utility hookups so they won’t need to use generators. He hopes to attract a wide variety of tenants to satisfy different palettes.
He also intends to make this a pet-friendly venue. “I love pets myself. So yeah, if they want to bring their pets, it’s outdoors, they can bring their pets, as long as they clean up,” he said.
Waheed hopes the Street Feast fills the demand for new dining options in the Poinciana market. “If you notice, there is no restaurants anywhere, and there’s a lot of rooftops, there’s a lot of homes over there,” he said. “It’s going to be great, I think, for these communities. Not only that, I think it’s going to be a destination location because of the way we’re going to market this. We can bring in people, I think, from other municipalities. I think the community will support it.”
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