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Toledo, Ohio food truck association relocates its Wednesday night festival

April 17, 2017

The Toledo Food Truck Association will be hosting a recurring Wednesday night festival in the parking lot of Secor Square in Toledo, a new shopping center, after failing to find a home in Waterville, Ohio, according to The Toledo Blade.

No date has been set for the event to start, said Candice McElyea, a spokesman for Secor Square developer S.J. Collins Enterprises, but many Toledo Food Truck Association members had been holding Wednesday open for the potential Waterville event. That proposal was dropped after talks between the food truck association, Waterville officials and the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library failed to find a site in Waterville.

Philip Barone, the association's president, had proposed bringing a handful of food trucks to the library system's Waterville branch, but library policy kept the trucks from using the parking lot.

An event at Secor Square could resemble the Thursday evening food truck rally in downtown Perrysburg, which attracts about 2,000 people, and its Maumee counterpart on Friday evenings that draws about 1,000, according to Barone.

The rallies would be held in the 365 by Whole Foods parking lot until the store opens, which is uncertain at present.