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Shranks Food Truck Park
Battle Creek, MI

Senior Urban Designer leading conceptual design efforts to redevelop a vacant infill lot in Downtown Battle Creek into a lively and inviting public plaza focused on providing safe and convenient access to food trucks.

The proposed Shranks Food Truck Park in Downtown Battle Creek, Michigan, aims to become a premier destination for food truck vendors by activating a currently vacant 0.17-acre lot as a lively public plaza. The food truck park will offer spaces for up to four food trucks of flexible sizes, with additional slots for food carts in order to support local culinary entrepreneurs looking to get their start in the Battle Creek area. The food truck park will provide a full range of amenities necessary to facilitate the food trucks’ operations including utility connections for sanitary services, potable water, and electricity. Additionally, an outdoor refrigerated container for safe food storage, a practical amenity for vendors, is included. The food truck plaza will be shaded by overhead tensile fabric canopy, illuminated with market-type lighting. The transformation of the vacant lot into a pedestrian plaza also includes a circular seating area with an outdoor fireplace, a solar PV canopy over picnic tables, and a bicycle repair station. The park's primary design principles utilize decorative pavers that mirror the city's historic streetscapes and introduce landscape areas with native species to create an inviting urban space marking a new landmark destination in Downtown Battle Creek.