Seagate Drive's Changing Business Mix: Local Closures and New Developments

As Gulfshore Business reported, Sal Iandimarino ran beach cruisers and rental bikes for 21 years out of a half-acre lot on Seagate Drive, across the street from Waterside Shops. If you've lived in Seagate long enough, you probably know Lenny Perez or Rey Chea, the two employees who kept the tune-up counter running. That lot is being torn down. Knauf-Koenig Group, a Naples construction and materials firm, bought the property in February for $2.4 million and is replacing two 1960s-era buildings with a 12,222-square-foot, three-story office designed by MHK Architecture of Naples, built over parking, for its own expanding staff.

Big Momma's isn't the first tenant to lose this particular lot. Over the decades the same half acre held Wine Grotto of Naples and a Hertz car rental counter before Seagrass Home and the bike shop moved in. Small businesses have always cycled through this address. The property is now planned for an owner-occupied office building rather than another retail tenant.

These changes are part of a broader shift in the business mix along Seagate Drive. Seagate Drive runs less than a mile and a half, from the free tram stop at Clam Pass Park on the Gulf to the crosswalk at US-41 that feeds Waterside Shops. Along that short stretch this year, a bike shop lost its site to an office building and a mother-daughter café closed for good, while three national brands have opened or are preparing to open at Waterside Shops: one at a former bank outparcel, one in the space formerly occupied by a two-decade-old chain restaurant, and one in a former department store. The sections that follow look at how those changes are playing out across the corridor.

The Café That Went Quiet

A few doors down from where Big Momma's is closing, Kunjani spent a decade in a small pink building on Seagate Drive. It was never just a coffee shop. The founders ran it as a nonprofit that funneled proceeds back to coffee growers in Zimbabwe, alongside a working art gallery. That location closed this year. The roasted beans are still sold online, but the storefront itself is gone.

The nearby headquarters project is another change along the corridor; across US-41, Waterside Shops is seeing restaurant and retail projects of its own.

Meanwhile, Across US-41

Walk the other direction on Seagate Drive and you hit Waterside Shops, where the turnover looks completely different but rhymes with everything happening a quarter mile away. Eddie V's Prime Seafood opened its doors on June 7, 2026, at 765 Seagate Drive: the first Eddie V's location anywhere in Southwest Florida, built on what used to be a bank office. The building holds 361 seats spread across a main dining hall, a speakeasy, a stage-equipped bar, and two private dining rooms.

As Gulfshore Business reported, Buck & Rider is preparing to take over the space that housed Brio Tuscan Grille for nearly 20 years. Brio's parent company filed for bankruptcy last year, and the lease is winding down toward a target opening for Buck & Rider in November. It's the Scottsdale-based concept's first restaurant outside the Southwest, and the company has said it's investing heavily in the buildout. A short walk from both, construction continues on the former Nordstrom building, empty since 2020, which is becoming an RH Naples gallery with a full-service restaurant built into the design.

Put plainly: on one side of Seagate Drive, a bike shop and a nonprofit café lost their leases this year. On the other side of the same street, a national steakhouse chain, a fast-growing seafood concept expanding outside its home region for the first time, and a luxury home goods company are all opening restaurants. Together, the changes show a shift in the mix of businesses along the street.

The One Thing On The Street That Didn't Change

If you want a fixed point to measure all of this against, walk to the north end of Seagate Drive instead. Clam Pass Park, managed by Collier County, sits at 465 Seagate Drive and hasn't changed at all this year. The free tram still runs the three-quarter-mile boardwalk through the mangroves to the beach. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida still leads its guided nature walks from December through April, departing from the tram stop each morning. Dogs still aren't allowed. Parking is still free if you carry a Collier County beach sticker and $10 if you don't.

Clam Pass Park is public land and remains unchanged this year, unlike the commercial sites described above.

What This Actually Means If You Live Here

None of this changes how Seagate itself feels day to day. The 90 homes on the canals are still quiet, and the private beach club is still tucked away from the crowds at Clam Pass. What's changed is the errand run. If you used to drop a bike off at Big Momma's for a tune-up on your way to the beach, that stop is gone from the rotation, and there's no announced replacement tenant for bike service on that stretch. If Kunjani was your Saturday coffee habit, that's gone too, though the beans are still available online if you want the taste without the storefront.

What's arriving in its place is a heavier concentration of national dining brands within walking distance. Eddie V's already sat down its first guests this summer, and Buck & Rider and RH's restaurant are both due before the year is out, which means a Seagate resident who wants to eat out without getting in the car is looking at three new sit-down options within a single year, none of which existed as recently as last September. That's on top of the older lineup at Venetian Village on the bay, where restaurants like MiraMare and M Waterfront Grille have anchored the waterfront for years. The neighborhood isn't losing its dining options. New national dining brands are joining the area's existing restaurant lineup, while independent businesses have closed nearby.

This stretch of Seagate Drive has seen the closure of a two-decade-old Italian restaurant, a 21-year-old bike shop, and a ten-year-old nonprofit café, alongside new restaurant and retail projects. Clam Pass Park remains unchanged.

If you're trying to make sense of what's changing around your own address, or you're weighing whether now is the moment to buy or sell on a street like this one, Burnham Group tracks this kind of turnover neighborhood by neighborhood across Naples. Let's Connect if you want a read on what it means for your specific corner of Seagate.