Downtown Redmond New Businesses and Moves for Fall 2026

Most of what's changing in downtown Redmond this fall is businesses moving down the block, and very few are new arrivals. A children's boutique is moving three doors down into a space four times its old size. A play space finished its move two doors down in June. A juice bar is taking over the boutique's old storefront, and Welcome Home moved next door. A 1937 theater added screens inside its own walls.

Two newcomers are coming too, and both are taking buildings that other retailers left. Handel's Ice Cream is moving into the old Earth's Art building at Fifth and Forest. Natural Grocers is planned for the former JoAnn Fabrics on Sixth. Together, the moves and the takeovers explain the downtown map you'll walk this fall better than any single grand opening.

Who Moved Where

Outgrowing the Old Storefront Within a Year

Little Bug Play Hub shows how this pattern started. It opened in 2023, and owner Cortney Falappino told the Redmond Spokesman the play area was at capacity after about a year. "It's just insane that after a year we already needed to upgrade," she said.

The fix was the former Double J Saloon, two doors down. The new space has twice the play area of the original, twice as many party rooms, and a coffee shop for the adults. Her husband Miles expected about four months of work to gut and paint the building. Plumbing problems and the 125-year-old brick construction stretched it to 13 months, and the play hub was closed from May 2025 until the mid-June 2026 reopening. When it was time to move, a group showed up with 10 trucks to carry everything down two addresses.

Little & Luxe is following the same pattern this month. Mollie Rogen opened the women's and children's clothing boutique downtown in April 2025, when she was 18. Now it's moving three doors down into the former Welcome Home storefront and growing from about 1,000 square feet to around 4,000. Assistant manager Kenzie Jackson told the Spokesman the larger shop will add maternity and plus-size lines, more kids' and women's clothing, and more toys. The target opening is Oct. 10. Welcome Home, whose old space the boutique is taking, moved next door to where it used to be.

Both businesses got more room without leaving the block. Each one moved into a bigger space just a few doors from its old one.

A Smaller Space for a Narrower Business

Just Cut Organic Juice Bar is moving the other direction on size. The business has run a juice bar and a gym together for a decade. Owner Clint Davis is moving the juice bar from 412 SW Evergreen Ave. into the 1,000-square-foot space between Kobold Brewing's The Vault Taphouse and Kook'i, the same storefront Little & Luxe is leaving. The gym isn't coming along.

"It's going to be the same business, but no gym. We decided to let the gym go, and we're going to just focus on the juice bar. The juice bar has been outperforming the gym by more than five times." Clint Davis, owner, Just Cut Organic Juice Bar, to the Redmond Spokesman

The target is Oct. 15, and the Evergreen location stays open until the move is done. Just Cut, which marked 10 years in February, plans a grand opening with 50% off for the first couple of days. Everything is organic and juiced to order, and the menu still includes five- and 10-day cleanses.

So a 1,000-square-foot storefront on Sixth is changing from a boutique that needed four times the room to a juice bar that cut half of its business to fit there. Both owners decided the block was worth reorganizing around.

The Odem Grew Inside Its Own Walls

Up Sixth Street from Little Bug, the Odem Theater Pub has grown without changing addresses. Milton and Fossie Odem built the theater in 1937. Current owner Ted Eady bought the building in 2001, ran it as a gift shop for years, and reopened it as a theater in 2018. It now has four theaters, and one has a stage for live music or comedy. "We wanted to have the option, the flexibility to do live music or comedy, something outside of the Hollywood deal," Eady told the Spokesman.

The room came out of the building itself. The old patio seating area is gone, with part of it turned into the new theaters and the rest set aside for a bigger indoor restaurant. Eady, his son and a few other people are doing most of the remodel themselves. In August, Eady gave this order for the remaining phases:

1. The expanded restaurant, hoped for by fall
2. An upstairs bar, by winter
3. A rooftop patio, by the beginning of next summer

He also plans balcony seating in the big theater.

The restaurant timeline came from August. As of early October, no reporting confirms the expanded restaurant has opened. During the work, the theaters and the front restaurant area have stayed open, so a movie night still works the way it did before.

Children's Businesses on Sixth

Moving two doors down also changed Little Bug's neighbors. The play hub now shares a wall with Juniper & Sprouts, a secondhand children's clothing shop. It sits across the street from Sweet Oasis Sweet Shoppe & Gifts and next door to Silvies River Charter School.

Little & Luxe's bigger kids' section and added toys add to that mix. Cortney Falappino wants to expand again with a space for older children, so the cluster may keep growing.

Newcomers Are Taking Buildings Other Stores Left

The two real arrivals are coming into existing buildings.

Handel's Ice Cream has a hiring sign up in the old Earth's Art building at the corner of Fifth Street and Forest Avenue. The sign says "Coming fall 2026." The Spokesman reported a 10-year lease on the existing 1,500-square-foot building at 612 SW Fifth St. Handel's started in Youngstown, Ohio, in the summer of 1945, and the Redmond shop will be its sixth in Oregon. Until now, the closest one has been on Bend's south side off Highway 97. KTVZ reported the shop was still getting ready to open as of Sept. 10, and no opening day has been announced in the coverage since.

The same lot will get more. Two to three more ground-floor retail spaces are planned. A Mexican restaurant has signed a lease, and plans call for a Vietnamese restaurant. Both are expected to open next year, and neither has been publicly named. A separate 200-square-foot space could work as a stationary food truck.

Natural Grocers is planned for the former JoAnn Fabrics building at 732 SW Sixth St. The City of Redmond announced it on July 15 with an expected opening in the first quarter of 2027. Equity Ventures is the developer and will become a part-owner.

One longtime downtown spot is in flux. General Duffy's Waterhole, just off Highway 97, is listed for sale by founder Dick Robertson and his wife, Susan. Their son Tanner runs the business, and the family says it will stay open until a handoff. No buyer had been announced in the coverage as of mid-September.

Halloween Puts the New Map on Foot

The first time many people will walk past all of these changes at once is Trick or Treat on 6th. The Redmond Chamber and First Interstate Bank close Sixth Street from Black Butte to Forest on Halloween from 4 to 6 p.m. so families can trick-or-treat with downtown businesses. The Chamber says the event draws thousands of Redmond locals downtown. Businesses that aren't located downtown can rent 10-by-10 booth spaces, and the Chamber will post a list of participating businesses.

The SCP Redmond Hotel at 521 SW Sixth St. is holding its second annual Halloween haunted house during the same hours on Oct. 31.

If the posted targets hold, Little & Luxe will have had three weeks in its bigger space by Halloween, and Just Cut will have had about two weeks at its new spot between The Vault Taphouse and Kook'i.

If you're thinking about buying or selling within walking distance of these blocks, Brent Krebs Realty can go over what this fall's changes mean for your street. Schedule a Consultation.