It wasn’t easy, but Fort Myers gave the go-ahead Wednesday for the city’s first food truck park. The city Board of Adjustments approved Bruno’s Brooklyn Bites Food Truck Park with a 5-0 vote. The park will be on McGregor Boulevard near the Edison-Ford Estate. Cal and Genevieve Bruno, who own Bruno’s of Brooklyn on Second Street in downtown, filed the application for the park.

The restaurateurs purchased three properties on McGregor between First Street and Virginia Avenue in October 2021 for $1.175 million, according to property records. The plan calls for the park to have seven food trucks, with two owned by the Brunos. The park could be an opportunity for restaurant owners whose restaurants were destroyed by Hurricane Ian to start again without opening in a new building, Cal Bruno said.