Waterside Shops New Stores for Fall 2026: What's Open and Next

Almost every opening at Waterside Shops this year depends on another tenant moving out first. Barnes & Noble's move about a mile south to Park Shore Plaza is the clearest example. It freed the two-story outparcel at U.S. 41 and Seagate Drive. Williams Sonoma and Pottery Barn moved into that building in January, and their departure emptied two large inline units that the center has since been dividing into smaller luxury suites.

The order of those moves explains the calendar. The stores at the front of the chain are open now. The ones further down are still behind wraps, and Buck & Rider, one of the two big dining projects, has already slipped from "late 2026" to "early 2027." Here is where things stand as of the first week of October, for anyone who uses Waterside and the Artis—Naples campus next door as their everyday errand-and-dinner stop.

How the Chain Runs

Naples Press columnist Tim Aten wrote in April that The Forbes Co., which owns and manages Waterside, is making "many calculated and deliberate changes" to the center's lineup. He described the approach as taking tenant curation "to the next level." Followed through each space, the changes look like this:

1. Barnes & Noble's outparcel became the joint home of Williams Sonoma and Pottery Barn, which opened there in January.
2. Williams Sonoma's old inline unit was split. Brunello Cucinelli opened in part of it near the end of 2025. Dior took the rest, plus some smaller adjoining units, for a 6,000-square-foot boutique that opened June 11.
3. Pottery Barn's old inline unit was also split. Vuori took 4,000 square feet next to Sephora. Anthropologie is taking an 8,500-square-foot space that combines part of it with the unit Ann Taylor left.
4. Anthropologie's current store on the northern edge of the mall "could be divided into three new retail units," according to Aten's April column.

Smaller openings run on the same logic. Omega is giving up its 2,519-square-foot space for a 1,848-square-foot unit near Santa Fe Café, and Van Cleef & Arpels is set to take Omega's current space. In the meantime, Waterside says Omega is operating from a temporary boutique while its permanent store is built. Van Cleef & Arpels can't move in until Omega moves out, and Naples Press puts Omega's move in "late 2026 or early 2027."

Where the Familiar Names Went

Some of the change involved stores leaving rather than relocating. Brio Italian Grille closed April 12 after 20 years on the northern end of the center, which clears room for Buck & Rider. Aten reported that Brio's parent company, Bravo Brio Restaurants, had filed for Chapter 11 protection the previous August. On the eastern edge, Häagen-Dazs and L'Occitane en Provence were not offered lease renewals, so their two adjacent units could become one space. The franchise owner put the end of the ice cream counter simply:

"After 25 wonderful years serving ice cream and smiles at the Waterside Shops, our lease is not being renewed, and we've been asked to vacate the location by May 31, 2026."

That came from Nabila Zafar, who still runs the Häagen-Dazs at Coastland Center. The combined unit is 1,356 square feet and is going to Love Shack Fancy. The White House Black Market space, 2,517 square feet, is going to Peter Millar. The 781-square-foot unit that Gulf Coast International Properties left has already reopened as Piranesi, a fine jewelry store across from Dior.

Status as of Early October

The date in each row comes from the most recent source available. Where Waterside's own retailer pages are newer than the press coverage, the table uses the retailer page.

Two of these entries need context. For Vuori, Naples Press dated the opening Sept. 4, while the mall's own "Now Open" post is dated Sept. 10. The store is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Waterside has also listed a Vuori workout event for Oct. 11.

Anthropologie's timing is the least settled. In April, the plan was to close the northern store in September and reopen in the new space in October. Naples Press's September report on Vuori still listed the move as "coming soon," and no published source yet confirms the new store has opened. If you're going for Anthropologie this month, call ahead.

The Dinner Side of the Chain

Restaurants change Waterside's evenings more than any boutique, and this is also where one of the year's clearest date changes has happened.

Eddie V's is the one that has already opened. The Darden fine-dining brand converted a 9,991-square-foot former bank building on the southwest corner and opened June 7. It serves seafood flown in from around the world, hand-carved steaks, and live jazz nightly in the V Lounge. Aten described it as the first regional location of a Darden brand on the level of its Capital Grille.

Buck & Rider is a seafood concept from Arizona-based Hi Noon Hospitality, and Naples will be its first location outside the Southwest. When the restaurant was announced in April, CEO Adam Strecker said the team was "looking forward to opening just before the end of the year." The renovation of the former Brio space is now targeted for early 2027 in both the mall's retailer listing and Naples Press's summer update.

RH is the largest piece. DeAngelis Diamond, a Naples firm, is building a campus of nearly 30,000 square feet on the footprint of the Nordstrom store that closed in 2020. The plan links separate furnishings galleries by landscaped walkways to a central RH Naples restaurant inside a glass atrium. Waterside's announcement still says "late 2026," and Naples Press reports that RH "hopes to open near the end of this year." Neither gives a day or a month. Until that changes, Waterside's dinner options this season are Eddie V's plus the established restaurants Bricktop's, California Pizza Kitchen and True Food Kitchen.

Planning Around the Construction

October brings one fixed date next door. The Baker Museum at Artis—Naples opens two exhibitions on Oct. 17. The Surrealist International: Fifty Years of Dreams runs through Feb. 14, 2027, and Florida Contemporary 2026–27 runs through June 27, 2027. A museum visit followed by dinner at Eddie V's on Seagate Drive is a short trip that doesn't depend on any project finishing.

Road work affects the drive in. Collier County's Vanderbilt Beach Road widening is under construction from just east of U.S. 41, adding two lanes over 1.8 miles. Most lane closures are scheduled for 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday. A culvert phase planned for spring 2027 is expected to cut the road to one lane each way for about two months. To the east, FDOT's I-75 and Pine Ridge Road interchange project may close Pine Ridge lanes overnight from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., with completion estimated for mid-2027. For a weekday visit to Waterside from the north, going before 9 a.m. or after 3:30 p.m. avoids the scheduled closure window on Vanderbilt.

Waterside has not yet published a November or December holiday schedule, and no tree-lighting date has been announced. Love Shack Fancy's "Holiday 2026" target puts it in that window. Peter Millar and RH are aiming to open before the year ends. Buck & Rider and TWP are both expected after New Year's, and the Omega and Van Cleef & Arpels swap could land on either side of it.

Many Waterside openings depend on another store moving out first. The same goes for selling a Pelican Bay home before buying the next one, where one transaction has to close before the other can. Gulf Coast Luxury Group plans those overlapping moves in detail, with in-house legal counsel reviewing each step. If a move of your own is on the 2027 calendar, Schedule a Private Concierge Consultation and we'll map out the order with you.