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Late Thursday, Dan Deagan got the call he’d been eagerly waiting for. A liquor license had been secured and he could open Lakewood Truck Park, which he and partner Justin Costanzo will do at 4 p.m. Friday, June 19.

“Finally, I’m so excited,” Deagan says. “This has been five years in the making. It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Located at the corner of Detroit and Edwards, the spacious lot is now officially  home to a year-round courtyard coupled with an indoor bar, rotating food trucks and al fresco entertainment. The outdoor venue could not come at a better time for consumers, who desire to be outside as much as possible.

“I think people will be more comfortable at the Truck Park, with it basically being an open-air, mostly outdoor venue, so that could very much benefit us,” he notes. “It’s essentially an 8,000-square-foot patio.”

Deagan says that the food truck selection might be light in the opening days thanks to a new inspection process in Lakewood that truck operators must go through.

Deagan, by the way, is about to celebrate 10 years of success at Deagan’s Kitchen in Lakewood and 7 years at nearby Humble Wine Bar.

For 25 years, Douglas Trattner has worked as a full-time freelance writer, editor and author. His work as co-author on Michael Symon's cookbooks have earned him four New York Times Best-Selling Author honors, while his longstanding role as Scene dining editor has garnered awards of its own.

5 replies on “Weekend Plans Made: Lakewood Truck Park Will Open Friday, June 19”

  1. Oh, shut the fuck up already, Wingnut. You are not amusing anymore.
    And you bore the crap out of the rest of us. Put a sock in it, you POS.

  2. Why not just let people post whatever they want and stop the name calling. Everyone always says “we need to have a conversation” about this and that, but what they really mean is I want youto shut up while i yell at you. That’s why we are inthe mess we are in. Thank you.

  3. Pretty sure there’s no reasonable debate with an agitator who mentions antifa in a comment on a story about a food truck park. A person who does that wants nothing more than division and strife for everyone else. I’d rather listen to a speech from orange dictator than try to have a reasonable discussion with LAZ

  4. It’s the same guy, who never uses the same name twice. He’s here 18-20 hours a day, every goddamn day, and if it isn’t antifa it’s Jews and Democrats and Communists.

    He’s the Lone Wingnut, who commands a fierce and growing army of conservative foot soldiers…and he’s a general in his own mind, cuzz that’s where all his storm troops live.

    He’s obsessed with his intense hatred for journalists and SCENE and liberals and fucking up this place is not his hobby, it’s his LIFE.

    This clown was doing this shit long before the Plague hit. He was quarantined in his basement YEARS before anyone ever heard of Covid-19. He has Rabid-15, and there’s no cure, except to chop off his fingers. And even then, he’d probably find a way to type with his nose.

  5. Geez i guess you guys didn’t like the joke about their being an autonomous zone in Lakewood.

    But I wonder if their new step-mommy mayor would let me set one up on that abandoned hospital site. Id be willing to pay the same price they were charging the development corporation for the land which was one dollar, yes $1.

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