New Life For The Shuttered Hollywood Diner

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — It's just a block from City Hall, but for many years, the Hollywood Diner has struggled to find customers. Now it's closed.

But Ron Matz reports, an exciting change is on the way.

It's been a long struggle for the now vacant Hollywood Diner--but now there's new life.

"We're going to create Baltimore's first food truck park," said Damian Bohager, creator of the Hollywood Diner Food Truck Park. "There's going to be multiple food trucks, we're going to re-landscape and create the whole footprint of this property."

It's the same diner used in Barry Levinson's famous Baltimore film. Damian Bohager is the man behind Charm City's food truck craze and it will be open during Sunday's farmer's market under the JFX.

Bohaner says the food trucks won't be far behind.

"We're going to headquarter ourselves in the diner. We'll start putting food trucks out here as early as the next 14 days, so people will be able to go to a food truck, get their lunch, and come sit down inside the diner and eat," Bohager says. "As you get more and more food trucks in Baltimore it gets harder and harder for them to find a decent place to park. So it helps the food trucks and gives them a location to come to every day. For the foodies who love food trucks, they'll be able to come to one spot and pick between, four, five or six food trucks."

The diner will also deliver!

"We're also going to deliver food to the immediate area.  Mercy hospital, the city office buildings, there's a lot of people who I think will take advantage of this," he says.

Bohanger says a Kickstarter campaign will start soon to help pay for planters and for other landscaping around the diner property.