Fairbanks food trucks find centralized home at new food truck park

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTUU/KTVF) - While Interior Alaska has over 50 active food trucks, many of these mobile food services lack a space to call home.

While that’s part of the appeal of operating a food truck, it comes with a handful of setbacks.

Among those setbacks is a lack of consistent access to utilities and nearby dining spaces, and while this isn’t an issue for food trucks in the summer months, it can prove challenging in the winter.

Attempting to address that issue while enhancing the local food truck industry, Cory Wilbur has developed the End of Line Food Truck Park.

“It was really built for the community of Fairbanks,” he said.

Wilbur had discovered the importance of having a sort of commissary for mobile food services while operating his own business in Seattle.

“We developed the food truck courtyard that helps with food trucks, and it helps with the logistics side of things,” Wilbur said.

Some of the logistical aids that the food truck park offers include electricity hook-ups, water and sewage hook-ups, and a permanent dining facility that customers of different food trucks can share.

The park offers 12 spaces in total for food trucks, six of those spaces being leased-out spots with utility hook-ups.

“Rather than parking in front of maybe a brick and mortar, they actually have their own space that it is their space and it’s for them, and so this gives them the opportunity to operate to pretty much focus on their customer service, their product, their interaction with the customer, and takes away all the usual issues that they come across,” Wilbur explained.

Nuttamon Molinary, the owner of Anchan Thai Fusion, said that having available indoor dining will be especially helpful during the cold winter months too.

“Normally if [customers] don’t have that building, then they’re gonna have to like order and go home or something like that,” she explained.

“I think it’s necessary for people to be able to dine indoors, especially if you’re looking at something as a winter operation,” Wilbur added.

“It’s built for year-round operation and so that was the idea to going in that we wanted a space that would not just be seasonal but would extend through the seasons be something that people go to year-round.”

That includes heating in the permanent dining structure for the cold winter months, along with COVID-19 mitigation technologies.

The Food Truck Park is located at 1243 Noble Street, near Wilbur’s family business, which is a sheet metal shop.

That was “a key thing” for Wilbur as that allows him to help the food trucks develop further.

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