On the busy corner of Durango and Spring Mountain, a onetime drugstore has traded prescriptions for poke bowls. Cheongdam Food Hall now fills the standalone retail box that previously housed a pharmacy, packing roughly 10 independent counters under one roof and turning a familiar big‑box shell into a buzzing, locally focused Asian food hall.
Inside, guests find everything from all‑you‑can‑eat sushi and Japanese curry to Korean banchan, poke bowls and specialty coffee, all sharing a common dining room. Operators pitch the project as an example of adaptive reuse in a stretch of town where those old drugstore footprints are starting to look less like liabilities and more like blank canvases for food halls and other community‑minded concepts.
According to Jason Miller, the building at 8610 Spring Mountain Road was repurposed from a former Rite Aid and now operates as Cheongdam Food Hall. Public directory listings and mapping services previously tied the address to a Rite Aid, and MapQuest and similar platforms now show the food hall and its tenant names in that spot.
What’s inside Cheongdam
The hall bills about ten restaurants sharing one dining area with separate service counters. The lineup includes Smile Shota for all‑you‑can‑eat sushi, Curry Ya for Japanese curry, Namsan Tonkatsu, GT Poke, Downtowner and Broken Coffee. The operator’s website lists the full roster, along with posted hours and contact details.
As the project settled into its Spring Mountain location, it also tweaked its mix of vendors earlier in the year, shuffling the roster to better match local demand. Menus, stall descriptions and vendor highlights are laid out on Cheongdam Food Hall, while What Now offers additional details on Curry Ya and its presence inside the hall.
Why the conversion makes sense
Drugstore chains have been shrinking their real estate footprints for years, leaving behind single‑story standalone boxes with parking, visibility and utility hookups already in place. For food operators, those buildings can be easier to rework than a ground‑up construction project and come with built‑in neighborhood familiarity.
National coverage of Rite Aid’s financial troubles and store closures has charted how many of those boxes are hitting the market at once, raising the question of what comes next for all that square footage. Commercial Observer maps out the broader retail context, while Miller argues that the Rite Aid prototype footprint could be repurposed in other cities as well, not just in Las Vegas.
A local addition to the Chinatown corridor
Sitting on the western edge of the Spring Mountain "Chinatown" strip, Cheongdam has quickly become part of the growing off‑Strip dining conversation. Neighborhood newsletters have flagged the project as a welcome addition for locals who want variety without heading to a casino or committing to a single restaurant.
Community coverage in The Vantage LV pointed to the hall’s February vendor revamp, while customer reviews on Yelp describe steady crowds, late‑night business and group‑friendly seating that works for both quick takeout and lingering meals.
For anyone planning a visit, menus, current vendor lists and daily hours are posted on the food hall’s website. Cheongdam Food Hall lists the address and keeps things largely walk‑in friendly. As more former pharmacy sites sit empty around the country, the conversion at Durango and Spring Mountain offers one blueprint for how developers and restaurateurs might turn leftover retail into neighborhood dining hubs.
