But if they did, why would be go about saving them? Where's your evidence that a few brick & mortar restaurants is better for society than multiple food trucks

But if they did, why would be go about saving them? Where's your evidence that a few brick & mortar restaurants is better for society than multiple food trucks + a park? An awful lot of American downtown areas already have too many shuttered shops and too few parking spaces. Driving business out from commercial real estate and into public space will only exacerbate that trend. And if you're proposing knocking down all those restaurants to build parks that people can sit in while they eat their foie gras hamburgers, who is going to pay for that? It's a massive transfer of wealth from the pockets of the city and the owners of commercial real estate (whose value plummets before their buildings get bought by the city and knocked down) to a bunch of dudes with vans.