Food truck owners fight for ‘life savings’ back after a new food truck park sees multiple delays

Nearly a dozen food truck owners said they are fighting for their life savings back, after they spent thousands to reserve a spot in a food truck park that never opened.

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According to rental agreements signed by the vendors, the Food Truck Park was set to open June 1st, along East Irlo Bronson Memorial highway in Kissimmee, but several months later, the park site looks like an empty plot of land.

While the founders of Food Truck Park LLC say the project will now move forward at another location, Osceola County officials said they never received an application for the project to begin with and never granted any permits to the site.

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Channel 9 sat down with the Food Truck Park founders, Gabriel Alvarez and Gabriel Trossel.

They met with Channel 9 crews equipped with renderings and site plans of the project.

According to the founders, the project was delayed because a homeless camp needed to be cleared from the property.

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