Or, post-pandemic (?) downtown Louisvile recovery mechanisms, Chapter XXVI. Here’s the pitch…
Love food trucks? This new weekly series hopes to bring you downtown Louisville for a bite, by Kirby Adams (Louisville Courier Journal)
A new weekly lunchtime series called “Food Truck Wednesdays,” kicks off June 1 on the 200 block of S. Fourth St. between Jefferson and Market streets in downtown Louisville.
The weekly event will shut down the street to vehicles so that multiple food trucks can park on the street, allowing downtown employees, visitors, and convention-goers to take advantage of a fun atmosphere and additional lunchtime options. Food trucks will serve lunch between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. with the series running through October.
There’s even a list of the participating food trucks. The Louisville Downtown Partnership promises that at least three of them will be on site any given Wednesday, with more taking part when there’s an event.
- Good Belly
- Sweet & Juicy
- Philly’s Best
- Weekend Burger
- Red Top Hot Dog
- Annie Up Pizza Cones
- Celtic Pig
- Tikiz
- Chic-la-Lou
- Flavaville
- Lil Cheezers
- Bamba Egg Rolls
- Al Prince Mediterranean
- Made in Brazil
- Sweet & Savory
- Smokin’ Cantina
- Boo Boo Smoke Shack
Note also that buskers and chalk artists are being invited to join in the fun.
Postscript:
Interestingly, as though anticipating a debate given the seemingly perennial friction between food trucks and bricks ‘n’ mortar operators, the Courier Journal ran an opinion piece alongside Adams’.
Is the city of Louisville getting the message? Everybody wins when food trucks roll, by Kyle Sweetland and Eric Schansberg
“Food Truck Truth,” a first-of-its-kind analysis from the Institute for Justice, disproves the claim that food trucks unfairly threaten the existence of restaurants. Food truck opponents make this claim because restaurants are stuck in one location with higher startup and operating costs than their mobile competitors. However, using 12 years of county-level census data, the study finds that food truck growth is not followed by restaurant decline.
And the Institute for Justice? It describes itself as “a nonprofit, public interest law firm. Our mission is to end widespread abuses of government power and secure the constitutional rights that allow all Americans to pursue their dreams.”
Unlike at several other internet portals. Wikipedia does not use the word “libertarian” to describe the Institute for Justice. However, the word appears therein: “William H. “Chip” Mellor and Clint Bolick co-founded the organization in 1990 with seed money from libertarian philanthropist Charles Koch.”
You can read IFJ’s analysis at the source: Food Truck Truth, and if you’re privy to a study taking an opposing point of view, please send it our way.
