A 30-stall food truck court is being proposed in Manteca.

Plans for the endeavor at 578 Industrial Park Drive are now being processed by the Community Development Department.

While at first it may not strike some as an ideal food court spot, the area is centrally located and fronts along a heavily traveled street that is for all practical purposes an arterial.

It connects with Spreckels Avenue and Main Street with the city’s second and third busiest retail areas — Walmart/Mission Ridge Shopping Center and Target/Spreckels Park — on either end.

Also, given the heavy use of apps to locate food trucks, the location doesn’t have to be on a main throughfare. That said, the site is easily accessible.

It is also is close enough to the 120 Bypass to potentially snag travelers going to and from the Sierra looking for specific food offerings that can rely on Internet-based direction services to reach the food truck court.

The proposed location on the south side of the street has two small business parks, a 30-stall truck parking facility, the Manteca Postal Annex, a day care center and the vacant Indy Electronics/Aliphatec/Turnkey Solutions building that has been empty for more than 20 years.

The opposite side of the street has the Schwan’s Frozen Food Delivery Service, a test lab, and the temporary location for Manteca’s emergency homeless services in the parking lot of the former Qualex processing plant building.

The only place where food trucks are now allowed to stay all day in Manteca are on Poplar Avenue on the west side of the library.

There is typically only one truck there on any given day. There have been as many as three.

While the Library Park site gets a steady stream of customers it is off the beaten path for most people in Manteca.

The closest established food court is in Lathrop along Harlan Road fronting Interstate 5 north of Louise Avenue in Lathrop.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com