The Old Bed Bath & Beyond on Pine Ridge Road Just Became Three Stores

For years, the northwest corner of Airport-Pulling and Pine Ridge roads has been Pine Ridge's version of a blank space on the map. The Bed Bath & Beyond went dark, the windows stayed papered over, and the shorthand for anyone driving past settled into something simple: nothing's there. That shorthand stopped being true sometime between May and August of this year, and most people who live nearby haven't updated it yet.

One store did not replace one store. One vacancy split into three, and farther down that same road, a family that has sold cars in Collier County since 1973 broke ground on something built at the opposite scale entirely.

What actually moved into the empty box

Ridgeport Plaza, at the intersection everyone still calls "the old Bed Bath & Beyond," reopened its anchor space this year as three separate businesses instead of one. Sprouts Farmers Market opened May 15 at 5351 Airport-Pulling Road, becoming the Phoenix-based chain's second Collier County location after its 2019 debut at Logan Landings. Golf Galaxy is relocating from a freestanding building at the Promenade at Naples Centre into an inline space in the same plaza, targeted for the third week of August, which is to say just over a week from today. Max's Natural Pet Market & Salon already opened in early June, in the suite that spent years as Before & After Salon & Spa.

The detail that's easy to miss driving past at 45 miles an hour: Golf Galaxy's new footprint is 20,780 square feet, down from 35,355 at its old location. That's a cut of more than 40 percent, and yet the store is keeping its hitting bays, simulators, putting greens and PGA and LPGA certified fitting staff. Three trips that used to mean three separate parking lots, one for groceries, one for a dog groomer, one for golf clubs, now happen inside a single lot at one intersection.

The same road, growing the opposite direction

Farther east on Pine Ridge Road, toward I-75, the corridor is doing the reverse. Genesis of Naples broke ground in January 2026 on a new 12-acre, stand-alone campus with more than 30,000 square feet dedicated to sales, service and customer experience, targeted to open in early 2027. It's owned by the Zellers family, whose roots in Collier County auto sales trace back to Arlie Zellers founding Tamiami Ford in 1973. Tim Zellers, who has led Genesis of Naples since 2018, put it simply at the groundbreaking:

"This moment carries tremendous emotion for all of us."

So the same road is shrinking retail into shared boxes at one end and growing a freestanding family legacy project at the other. Both bets make sense against the same backdrop. The stretch of Pine Ridge Road between Airport-Pulling and Goodlette-Frank alone carries roughly 64,000 vehicles a day, according to traffic counts filed for the retail space at Orange Pine Plaza, the kind of number that explains why a Phoenix grocery chain and a golf retailer willing to shrink its footprint would fight for space in that half-mile, and why a 53-year-old local auto family would rather build its own campus farther down the same road than compete for it.

A few blocks east, the additions are quieter

Not every change on the corridor is a national chain landing with a ribbon cutting. At Goodlette Corners, the Barron Collier Companies-owned plaza at 1410 Pine Ridge Road, the newest tenants solve more mundane problems. The Good Feet Store opened December 31, 2024, and Generator Supercenter followed in the summer of 2025. Cee Cee Marinelli, the company's vice-president of commercial real estate, called it part of keeping the center "a popular destination for shopping, dining, and personal services." That's the plaza where South Street City Oven, Bar & Grill has been the neighborhood's go-to for pizza and wings for years now, alongside Sushi One, Five Guys and Nothing Bundt Cakes, an older, steadier layer under the corridor's newer arrivals.

A few doors down at 2099 Pine Ridge Road, inside the same Orange Pine Plaza that includes the traffic count above, Restaurant Bonjour is still running on a calendar that has nothing to do with any of this. The French bakery and bistro closes for the summer every year and plans to reopen around October 1, sometimes earlier, a rhythm that predates Sprouts, predates Golf Galaxy's move, and will likely outlast whatever comes next into that Bed Bath & Beyond space. It's a reminder that not everything on this corridor runs on a national retailer's opening-day press release.

What this actually changes if you already run errands here

If your mental map of Pine Ridge Road still has a blank spot at Airport-Pulling, three separate errands that used to require three separate stops now live in one parking lot: groceries at Sprouts, a dog groomed at Max's, and by late August, new clubs fitted at Golf Galaxy without leaving the plaza. If you've been driving the extra distance to the Promenade at Naples Centre for golf gear, that trip is about to get shorter and the store smaller, though not simpler.

Further out, the corridor is telling you something about its own future. A family business willing to build a 12-acre stand-alone campus on Pine Ridge Road isn't hedging. Neither is a plaza owner subdividing a dead anchor into three working tenants instead of waiting for one big one. Both are betting on the same road, a road that moves roughly 64,000 vehicles a day through just its Airport-Pulling stretch, staying busy enough to support them. For anyone who's called this stretch of road home for a while, that's less an idle observation and more a preview of what continues to fill in around you.

And if the corridor's changes have you thinking about what's happening to home values along it, or you're simply curious what your own Pine Ridge property might be worth as this stretch of road keeps filling in, Dana Price Homes is always glad to talk through the neighborhood, one intersection at a time.