Black Bear Diner is planning a second Henderson restaurant at 907 E. Lake Mead Pkwy, inside the Cadence Village Center near Smith’s Marketplace, with an opening targeted for late Q1 2027. It will add another Nevada location for the chain and land squarely inside one of the fastest-growing residential pockets in the entire valley.
The news comes as reported by WhatNow, which notes the new restaurant will operate as a corporate-owned location rather than a franchise. Nicole Durham-Mallory, the company’s VP of development, said Black Bear Diner “continues to evaluate opportunities for thoughtful growth in existing and new markets,” a comment that WhatNow reported alongside its confirmation that this Henderson restaurant is expected to open in late Q1 2027.
A Second Bite At Henderson
Black Bear Diner isn’t new to Henderson. A second location opened in December 2014, and an existing restaurant is on North Green Valley Parkway; the brand’s Southern Nevada push had grown to four locations by 2017, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. That original wave of Las Vegas-area stores sprang up on South Las Vegas Boulevard, West Sahara Avenue, and West Tropicana Avenue before the brand pushed east.
This time, the company is following rooftops rather than the resort corridor. The Cadence Village Center sits inside the 2,200-acre Cadence master-planned community, which targets approximately 12,250 homes at full buildout in 2030 to 2032 and was already more than half built out by mid-2026, per the Nevada Real Estate Group. Development at Cadence began around 2012, giving the neighborhood more than a decade to mature into the kind of customer base a full-service diner chain wants next door.
A Grocery Anchor And A Casino On The Way
The Cadence Village Center is anchored by a Smith’s Marketplace. That kind of retail investment has continued to build around Cadence: Boyd Gaming’s nearby Cadence Crossing Casino was on track for a late-March 2026 opening as part of a roughly 50,000-square-foot development with a 10,000-square-foot gaming floor, Hoodline reported after Boyd rushed the venue to replace the long-running Jokers Wild in a casino swap tied to a housing surge of roughly 1,200 new home sales in 2025…