"Any idea what's going where Uncle Julio's and Bahama Breeze was?" A Naples reader sent that question to Tim Aten's column in Naples Press. It's a reasonable thing to wonder after a summer of fencing and construction trailers on the edges of Coastland Center.
For anyone in Grey Oaks, the answer covers both ends of Golden Gate Parkway. At the Airport-Pulling Road end, a new building is already booking early-morning workouts. At the U.S. 41 end, Coastland is adding three steak-and-seafood dining rooms, and most of them are looking at late 2026 at the earliest, with early 2027 more likely. This season, the new routines start at breakfast. Most of the new dinner reservations come later.
The Building at Airport-Pulling and Golden Gate
Halstatt has finished a 10,000-square-foot retail building at Poinciana Plaza, at Airport-Pulling Road and Golden Gate Parkway. The developer announced the completion in June 2026. The building sits on the southwest corner of the intersection, so it's a short drive from Grey Oaks' gates.
The tenant list leans toward the morning. Discover Strength, a fitness studio, opened first. The roster also includes:
- Starbucks, a standalone drive-thru of about 2,500 square feet
- LVL Fitness, a Pilates studio
- The Retreat Aesthetics, a med spa
- Fresh Monkee, a smoothie shop
Fresh Monkee makes high-protein, low-sugar shakes and smoothies to order, according to Naples Press. That fits the gym and the Pilates studio in the same building.
LVL Fitness and the 5 a.m. Start
LVL Fitness is the clearest example of how early this corner starts. The LVL Fitness Poinciana page lists the studio at 2160 Airport-Pulling Rd N., takes class bookings online and offers a two-week trial. Its posted hours are:
- Monday through Friday, 5 a.m. to 7 p.m.
- Saturday, 6 a.m. to noon
- Sunday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The class menu includes Full Body, FUNdamentals, Full Body + Stretch and Express 30. Express 30 is a half-hour format. With a 5 a.m. weekday opening, you could finish a class before a tee time or before the parkway gets busy.
The rest of Golden Gate Parkway is running on a slower schedule.
Coastland's Edges, Corner by Corner
Head west on Golden Gate Parkway to U.S. 41 and the restaurant spaces around Coastland Center are turning over. Two are freestanding outparcels and one is expanded space inside the mall. Working clockwise from the parkway:
- Atlantic Forge Mediterranean Steakhouse, 2096 Ninth St. N. This is the former Uncle Julio's outparcel on the mall's northwest corner, at U.S. 41 North and Golden Gate Parkway. Uncle Julio's closed in February after about three and a half years. Atlantic Forge is building a high-end restaurant in the nearly 11,500-square-foot building.
- 2088 Ninth St. N. The former Bahama Breeze next door is still vacant.
- Rodizio Grill, 2048 Tamiami Trail N. This Brazilian churrascaria has a salad bar, and gauchos carve rotisserie-grilled meats at the table. It's building out the mall's former Aurelio's Pizza space plus the retail unit next to it, on the mall's northern edge. Its Naples page says the restaurant will open in 2026.
- Oar & Iron Raw Bar & Grill, 2094 Ninth St. N. This is a new building going up in the southwest corner of the Macy's parking lot, at U.S. 41 and Fleischmann Boulevard. Naples Press describes it as an upscale-casual Florida version of 110 Grill, built around a raw bar, seafood and steak, with outdoor dining. An earlier Naples Press report says the entire menu is available gluten-free.
Three new restaurants around one mall, and each one centers on grilled meat or a raw bar. Diners heading west from Grey Oaks will soon have more steak-and-seafood choices in one place than this corner of town has offered in years.
Across U.S. 41, one more space at the intersection is changing. The former Dorona space at 2110 Tamiami Trail N., on the southern end of Centre Pointe at the northeast corner of U.S. 41 and Golden Gate Parkway, is becoming a Northwestern Concierge Clinic. Dorona ran there for more than seven years before closing in May 2025. Northwestern Medicine Concierge Medicine Naples already operates on Fourth Avenue North in Old Naples.
Why the Dinner Side Runs Later
The two ends of the parkway are on different schedules because the projects are different kinds of work. The Poinciana Plaza building was new construction that Halstatt delivered with move-ins already underway. Tenants could start building out their spaces right away. At Coastland, each restaurant is its own project, with its own design review and its own construction timeline.
Atlantic Forge is a renovation. Its footprint, scale and site layout stay the same. The Naples Design Review Board gave final approval on Aug. 26 to changes to the facade, landscaping and signage. The colorful mural on the west wall will be painted white with the restaurant's name in gold letters. The ironwork near the patio comes out. Italian cypress, bougainvillea and podocarpus will replace the agave and umbrella plants. The patio plan came from Jason B. Taylor of Bradenton-based Taylor Studios Inc., who described it this way to city staff and board members, as Naples Press reported:
"Our proposed improvements include the addition of firepit tables, freestanding firepits, some planters and a built-in gas fireplace feature on the patio."
That patio will get its first real use next winter. The same report gives Atlantic Forge an early 2027 opening, and it hasn't released its menu yet.
Oar & Iron is on a ground-up schedule. "[We] would love to be open by the end of 2026, but otherwise early 2027, based on construction," Rob Luzzi, senior director of marketing for RAVentures Hospitality Group, told Naples Press. The same column puts Rodizio Grill's arrival in late 2026 or early 2027.
Oar & Iron and Rodizio Grill both list late 2026 as their earliest target and early 2027 as the fallback. Atlantic Forge is set for early 2027. Either of the first two could open before New Year's, but Atlantic Forge's firepit patio belongs to 2027.
Filling the Afternoons Between Now and Then
Two other spots along the same stretch already fit into a Grey Oaks week.
The Naples Zoo offers free admission to Collier County residents on select Saturdays. The two left this season are Saturday, December 5, and Saturday, January 2, 2027. The January date is the Saturday after New Year's, when many families still have relatives in town.
For something outdoors without a reservation, Baker Park at 50 Riverside Circle has a 1.3-mile loop on 15 acres. The Blair Foundation pedestrian bridge connects it to the Gordon River Greenway, so a short walk can turn into a longer one.
For this season, that's the plan: a Pilates class at the corner, the zoo or the Greenway in the afternoon, and the new Coastland dining rooms opening one at a time around the turn of the year.
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