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.
That surge hasn't slowed. Cadence led the entire Las Vegas Valley in master-planned community home sales volume during the first quarter of 2026, outpacing even established rivals like Summerlin, Hoodline previously reported. Henderson, Nevada's second-largest city, has about 330,000 residents, a scale that helps explain why national chains keep circling East Henderson's newer corridors.
The Diner's Roots And Its Rustic Signature
Black Bear Diner traces back to 1995, when founders Bruce Dean, Bob Manley, and Laurie Manley opened the first location in Mount Shasta, California, serving home-style comfort food built around breakfast and scratch-made dishes. The company began offering franchise opportunities in 2002 and has since grown to at least 171 locations across 14 states, including locations in Nevada.
Every location carries the brand's signature rustic mountain lodge look, with decor meant to feel like a cabin retreat rather than a standard diner booth.
Growth Strategy Extends Beyond Henderson
The Henderson project follows closely on the heels of another Nevada opening. Black Bear Diner is set to debut a new North Las Vegas location this fall at 4388 W. Craig Rd., a 4,625-square-foot restaurant that will add another Nevada location to the brand's footprint, Hoodline reported in its coverage of the Craig Road opening. That site sits in a heavy commercial growth corridor near Valley Drive, mirroring the same logic driving the Henderson pick.
Black Bear Diner is owned by private equity firm GreyLion and operates under CEO Anita Adams, who served as the company's CFO before stepping into the top role in January 2020. The business currently splits roughly 65 company-owned locations against more than 90 franchised units, according to Franchise Times reporting on the chain's leadership. Off-premises sales accounted for 15 percent of revenue in 2024.
Exactly when construction will begin on the new corporate-owned Henderson building, and whether the opening will include the kind of local hiring push seen at prior Southern Nevada launches, remain open questions ahead of the early 2027 target date.
