Food truck event coming to downtown on Friday, June 12
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cludes herself, has been instrumental in making this food truck festival a reality. The
other members are Lauren Crescenzo, Robin
Gazzara, Joanna Iacovelli and Jen Enders.
“It is a new market of volunteers that I am
excited about. One of the major goals of
MainStreet [Hammonton] for the next three
years has been to embrace diversity.
After many conversations
with different audiences it
was decided that food is the
best way to initially create
that multicultural diversity
experience in a most authentic way. The food
truck festival seems to be
a fun, and really good way
to do that,” Iacovelli said.
MainStreet Hammonton
is committed to tying in the
arts in a creative way and
bringing the diverse range of
human activities to the forefront, according to Iacovelli.
“This conversation of a food truck festival
came out of my economic restructuring
committee for ways to really celebrate diversity, but it also came up in my arts district
committee in a way to mesh arts with food.
It is a natural combination. That is what set
the pace for us to be doing this,” Iacovelli
said.
The committee for the Hammonton Food
Truck Festival was eager to do something
which would appeal to the age demographic
of 20-to-40-year-olds, Iacovelli
stated.
“This is open to everybody, but
this will definitely be targeted to our,
one of our younger demographics
than some of our other events. They
have stepped up and said they will
make it happen, and they have,” Iacovelli said.
Iacovelli expressed that the committee has been doing extensive research of other areas that have food
truck festivals to gauge what it will
take to operate it successfully. The
decision is to make this event similar to how the traditional Hammonton Cruisin’ MainStreet is setup.
“The food trucks will be lined up
Bellevue Avenue and along Egg
Harbor Road, and across the tracks
over by Front Street and Railroad
Avenue. We will be closing down
Central Avenue and Egg Harbor
Road on that stretch like we do for
the Cruisin’ MainStreet event,” Iacovelli said.
Hammonton-based band Stealing
Savanah will be the featured performers at the food truck festival,
along with other local entertainment.
“We intend to have an art district
section of the festival to showcase
local artists and live entertainment
from those who have ties to Hammonton. A few of t