The Restaurant You Remember at Immokalee and Collier Isn't There Anymore

The plaza at the northeast corner of Immokalee Road and Collier Boulevard looks exactly like it did last year. Same CVS anchoring one end, same Starbucks drive-through line backing up around 8 a.m., same Tropical Smoothie sign facing the intersection. Cameron Commons has not changed shape since it went up in 2015. What has changed is what's inside two of its storefronts, and if your last stop there was a beer and a basket of fried grouper at Pelican Larry's, that restaurant is gone.

This is the plaza Stonecreek residents actually use. The gated community sits off Logan Boulevard, a few minutes north of Immokalee Road, tucked between Riverstone and Quail West. Fifth Avenue South is a twenty-minute drive. Cameron Commons is the errand stop, the CVS run, the Sunday coffee. Which is exactly why the turnover there matters more than a downtown opening would: it's the corner you pass without looking, until you look and the name over the door doesn't match the one in your head.

The Plaza You Already Know

Pelican Larry's Raw Bar & Grill had occupied its spot in Cameron Commons for years, long enough to become the kind of restaurant people describe by location rather than name. In January, the owners of New York Pizza & Pasta took over the space and opened Tipsy Corner in its place.

The concept is a departure from a raw bar. Tipsy Corner runs as a sports lounge, built around more than 75 televisions and a full surround sound system, with a programming calendar that goes well past game day. There's a themed country night on the third Saturday of the month, an exotic car and cigar gathering called Cars and Cigars on the fourth Sunday, and Sunday football watch parties that run through the season. The building is the same footprint that housed a raw bar for a decade. The Sunday crowd inside it now is watching a car show in the parking lot, not ordering peel and eat shrimp.

A Sushi Counter Closes the Gap

Two months after Tipsy Corner opened, Cameron Commons turned over again. Uma Sushi opened in March in the space that had been Sakura Buffet, another restaurant that had been part of that plaza for long enough to feel permanent. A buffet-style sushi operation and an a la carte sushi restaurant are different businesses wearing the same square footage, and the difference shows up in the kind of visit each one is built for: one is about volume and variety at a set price, the other is about ordering exactly what you want.

Two restaurant changeovers in the same strip mall within a single quarter is not the kind of thing that shows up on a portal listing or a chamber of commerce newsletter. It shows up when you drive past and do a double take.

The Same Quarter, Down the Road

Cameron Commons wasn't the only address on this stretch of Immokalee Road that changed hands in early 2026.

• Shabo's Bistro, in nearby Pebblebrooke Center, sold in late 2025. The new owner didn't finish making it his own until early 2026, when the restaurant reopened under a new name, Bernwood Tavern and Cucina.
• Connors Steak and Seafood, a Tennessee-based aged-steak and fresh-seafood concept, opened January 12 at 950 Immokalee Road inside Granada Shoppes. The address had been a Dollar Tree since 2017 and a Walgreens before that. Connors built out roughly 9,000 square feet with more than 250 seats, including a full bar and patio, and the Naples location became the company's ninth overall and its fourth in Florida, joining Fort Myers, Sarasota, and Tallahassee.

Granada Shoppes sits farther down Immokalee Road toward U.S. 41, past the range most Stonecreek residents would call a quick errand. But it's the same corridor, the same three-month window, and the same pattern: a retail space that had been something else for years became a restaurant, or a restaurant that had been one thing became another.

Chains Picked a Different Address

The same quarter that saw Tipsy Corner and Uma Sushi move into Cameron Commons also brought a wave of national chain openings to North Naples, and they landed somewhere else entirely. Shake Shack opened at Mercato in February. Saucy by KFC and Dave's Hot Chicken opened elsewhere in the region around the same time.

The split is worth noticing. The independent operators along Immokalee Road, at Cameron Commons and Pebblebrooke, were the ones changing hands and reopening under new names. The national chains chose Mercato, the mixed-use development with the higher foot traffic and the retail mix built for exactly that kind of tenant. Two different real estate strategies played out in the same three months, on two different stretches of the same road. Neither one means the other stretch is struggling. It means a strip plaza built in 2015 and a lifestyle center built for chain anchors are two different products, and the businesses that lease space in each one are making different bets about who's driving by.

For someone who lives inside Stonecreek's gate, the practical version of that split is simple. The five-minute radius around the community picked up a sports lounge with live music and a proper sushi counter this year, replacing a raw bar and a buffet that had been fixtures for a long time. A sit-down steakhouse landed a bit farther out on the same road. The chain openings that made regional news happened at Mercato, which is a separate stop, not a replacement for anything near Logan Boulevard.

There's one more piece still working its way through Collier County's approval process: a development called NC Square, proposed for the southwest corner of Immokalee Road and Catawba Street, near Twin Eagles and across from Valencia Trails. Early plans call for four more restaurant spaces alongside a residential phase, but the project has been through revisions at the county level and has not broken ground. It belongs on the list of what's coming rather than what's open. Everything else in this piece already has a hood vent running and a sign lit up at night.

Next time you're at Cameron Commons for a prescription refill, the building on the corner is still there. What's inside it now opened this year, and it isn't what you remember.

If you're weighing what's changed in the neighborhoods around Stonecreek, or want a walkthrough of what's opened lately within a few minutes of any Naples-area gate, Coastal Living Naples keeps track of it block by block.