City Limits Food Park Rolls Into West Pensacola

“We want to make these things accessible so that people don’t just feel like they have to grab their food and go. We want them to hang out and enjoy their time here.”

City Limits Food Park

Rolls Into West Pensacola photos & story by Morgan Cole else—there’s no place to sit, wash your hands or use the restroom. We want to make these things accessible so that people don’t just feel like they have to grab their food and go. We want them to hang out and enjoy their time here.”

When local entrepreneurs Donnie DeLuna and his brother-in-law Melvin Jacob set out to find a location for the new food trucks they had been building, the two never imagined they would end up opening a food truck park.

With construction complete and the lot set up for its new tenants, DeLuna and Jacob have begun making final preparations to open the new City Limits Food Park in West Pensacola at 2200 West Cervantes St.

Situated at the corner of Cervantes and Q Streets, the City Limits Food Park will be the first of its kind in Pensacola, offering a more permanent location for the city’s abundant mix of food trucks.

The City Limits Food Park will offer both indoor and outdoor seating options in a familyfriendly environment where everyone is welcome, including well-behaved furry friends. The park has been renovated to include on-site restrooms as well as multiple shade-covered areas for visitors to be able to sit and enjoy their meals.

“We will have lots of fans and are currently working on setting up mist machines as well. Our goal is to make it comfortable for our customers,” DeLuna explained. “When you visit other food trucks, you typically get your food and leave to go eat it somewhere DeLuna said that the size and accessibility of the lot will allow for anywhere from eight to nine different types of food trucks. The park will also feature both indoor and outdoor wash stations, several large lawn games, a separate prep area for vendors and an indoor air-conditioned dining area complete with a coffee and rolled ice cream bar.

“We have also built an eight-byeight-foot checkerboard and will have other things to keep guests entertained like a large yardsized Jenga, cornhole boards and some other fun outdoor games,” DeLuna said.

DeLuna and Jacob will also have a few of their own food trucks on site, one which will offer Asianinspired barbeque, another with smoothies and cold drinks and one serving smashburgers–which you might remember from their time in the Cordova Mall food court.

“For our new Asian barbeque food truck, we have taken different flavors from Asian countries throughout the Pacific like Korea, the Philippines, Hawaii and even Japan, and fused it with traditional barbecue,” DeLuna said. “These are flavors we like and that have been inspired by our travels, where we have seen fusion cuisines like these work really well in other cities.”

As the co-owners embarked on their journey to get their own food trucks up and running, they became acquainted with some of the other food truck vendors in the area and learned that many of them struggled when it came to finding a consistent place to park their trucks. “A lot of the local food truck vendors told us that they have to move to different locations frequently, which makes it hard for their customers to find them. Sometimes the vendors aren’t available at all because they have nowhere to park and open up for the day,” DeLuna explained. “We want our customers to be able to find us anytime and not have to wonder where we are going to be parked next.”

DeLuna explained that local food truck vendors will have the opportunity to select from a variety of different packages, which will offer both short-term and long-term vendor contracts. In addition, vendors will have access to an on-site prep area as well as a place to leave their trailers at the end of the day.

“We are currently working on putting together several different types of packages to meet the needs of our local food truck operators. We will offer a variety of different rates for vendors who want to be more permanent or long-term,”

DeLuna explained. “Some might want to park for one day and others might want to stay for a month.”

“The whole point of the food truck park is to offer a variety of food options—all at one convenient location.”

DeLuna also said that they want to keep the number of food trucks to no more than nine so that each of the food truck operators has a chance to do business without feeling like they are competing with other on-site vendors. While DeLuna and Jacob have not secured any contracts with specific food truck operators, they plan on hosting an open house for prospective vendors in the coming weeks.

“Although we can accommodate quite a few vendors, we plan on being selective when it comes to the types of food trucks that will be on site. We don’t want there to be a lot of repetition in the types of food being served by the different trucks. The whole point of the food truck park is to offer a variety of food options—all at one convenient location,” DeLuna said. “We want to host this open house for local food truck operators so they can come in and see what we have going on here. We also want the chance to speak with them, see what types of cuisines they offer and learn more about their food trucks. This way, they can see what all they will have access to here on-site and we are able to learn more about their needs as well,” DeLuna said.

DeLuna explained that they selected the West side location because the lot was open and offered more than one point of entry from multiple roads. In fact, the name for the new food truck park was directly inspired by the location.

“We actually came up with the name for the new place because of how it is zoned. It’s actually two lots combined and the front part of the lot is technically in Pensacola city limits and the back part of the lot is county-owned. So, the city limits sign actually crosses right through our whole lot,” DeLuna explained. DeLuna and Jacob have not finalized an exact date for the vendor open house event, but they have plans to make an announcement on social media in the coming weeks. According to DeLuna, he and Jacob hope to have the food truck park up and running by sometime next month.

For updates, vendor announcements and grand opening details, check out @CityLimitsFoodTruckPark on Facebook.

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