Business Monday: 5 small companies thrive together in Hilos first food truck park : Big Island Now [Video]

After closing a brick and mortar restaurant in Pāhoa in 2018, Le Schumaker found that a food truck might be a better option for serving her favorite dishes she learned from her mom. 

Schumaker opened the Le Yellow Sub food truck the next year and began serving authentic Vietnamese street food with a local twist while parked outside her son’s house. 

But when she was told to move elsewhere due to parking issues, her son Aaron Watkins helped her look for a safe place to park the food truck and found a lot at 213 Kalanianaʻole Street. Located on the Hilo side of the harbor in front of Kuhio Kalanianʻole Park, the lot also seemed like the perfect place for more than …