- February 8, 2025
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The food trucks are making their way back to City Center for the third and final summer installment of a new series from the Port Orange Community Trust.
On Friday, Aug. 11, five trucks will park at their spots at Lakeside Center for residents to enjoy. This is the first time the organization has done the Summer Food Truck Series, which has run the second Friday of each month starting in June.
Jennifer Marano, Port Orange Community Trust executive director, said they are starting out small with only a handful of trucks in order for each of the owners to make enough money. She said once the event starts gaining more traction, organizers would like to see more food trucks coming in for the sessions.
The food truck event is just another example of growth for the Port Orange Community Trust, which started 29 years ago. Even the Family Days event has grown from when it was only a block party in a neighborhood.
Marano said even though they are able to expand to hosting Family Days, Movies Under the Stars and the Spring Fair and Food Festival, there was a new kind of request. They began getting messages that more adults were wanting an event they could go to. It was this interest from older citizens that led them to start the food truck series.
"We weren't hitting that demographic," Marano said. "We just wanted to offer more. We were realizing Port Orange is more than families, there's a lot more people out there that we were just not hitting that we needed to."
Now Marano said the organization would like to expand even more in the future to accommodate the growth they have already seen.
There are plans to have 20 food trucks come out for the Family Days event, which runs from Sept. 20 to Oct. 1, according to Marano, but the sessions are the first event where residents will find only the food trucks.
This month’s final session will include Churros & Cream, BB’s Happy Food, Kona Ice, Good Food and Bigbelly’s, which won the 2017 best in show for the Community Trust’s food festival held in the spring.
“We’re working with the city now for them to give us some more time here for us to put on more things like that,” Marano said. “We’re trying to build this up slowly.”
The final Summer Food Truck Series session is from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at 1999 City Center Cir.
