Almond & Oat Opens Its Third Coffee Shop, Downtown in the Arts District

by Ryan Rose

What Happened

FOX5 reporter Martha Cruz reported on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, that Almond & Oat has opened inside shareDOWNTOWN. The shop joins the brand's two other locations, one near Henderson and one in the southwest valley. FOX5 had previewed the opening a week earlier and said at the time the shop planned to open on Oct. 7.

Here are the basics, according to FOX5:

Address: 1300 S. Casino Center Blvd., near Colorado Avenue, inside shareDOWNTOWN
Hours: Open daily, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Size: Nearly 1,400 square feet
Seating: About 30 guests, with custom banquettes and a window-side bar
Menu: Specialty coffee, oat-milk drinks, house-made syrups, matcha, pastries and savory items

The shop is dairy-free and vegan, according to FOX5's Sept. 30 preview by reporter Talia Kirkland. That is the whole idea behind the name. Instead of steamed cow's milk, drinks are built around oat milk and other plant-based options. Prices were not listed in either FOX5 report [NOT VERIFIED].

Almond & Oat comes from the same team behind The Coffee Class, a local chain of coffee shops. Kyle Cunningham is the founder and CEO of both. In the Oct. 9 report, he said, "The Arts District has developed into one of the most creative and community-driven neighborhoods in Las Vegas." He added that the company wants the shop to feel welcoming and connected to the energy of the neighborhood.

This is a bigger step than it looks. FOX5 reported that the downtown shop is Cunningham's seventh coffee location overall and his first in the Arts District. Based on the locations FOX5 listed, his shops include three Coffee Class spots (on Eastern Avenue in the Green Valley area, in the Water Street District in Henderson and at Village Square on West Sahara Avenue), Horizon Shine Coffee Co. on East Horizon Drive in Henderson, and now three Almond & Oat shops.

The first Almond & Oat opened in 2023. FOX5 describes it as the Henderson location. The address FOX5 listed for it is 10445 Spencer St., Suite 110, in the St. Rose Parkway area, which uses a Las Vegas mailing address in the 89183 ZIP code. The second shop opened in December 2025 near Sunset Road and Jones Boulevard, at 6555 S. Jones Blvd., Suite 100. The new downtown shop moves the brand farther north than it has ever been.

The Almond and Oat Coffee Bar sign above the ground-floor storefront on South Casino Center Boulevard, with green Coming Soon window panels before the shop opened

Why It Matters to Las Vegas Residents

For people who live downtown, the change is simple. There is one more place to sit, work and grab breakfast within walking distance. The shareDOWNTOWN building itself is apartments, so the shop has a built-in group of neighbors upstairs. The surrounding blocks hold more apartments, lofts and older homes, plus a lot of people who work in the bars, galleries, salons and shops of the Arts District. A coffee shop that opens at 7 a.m. every day of the week serves all of them.

For the Arts District, it means one less dark window. Empty storefronts hurt a walkable neighborhood. When one shop closes, people have one less reason to park and walk, and the businesses next door feel it. When a new tenant moves in quickly, it tells other business owners that the space still has value. Almond & Oat signed on for a spot that had been empty since April, and it opened within about six months of the old shop closing.

It also matters who is opening. This is not a national chain testing the market. It is a local operator who started with one shop in 2019 and has grown to seven. When a local business owner with that track record picks a neighborhood, it reflects a bet on that area. Cunningham said as much in the Sept. 30 FOX5 preview. "I believe in the area, and I feel like this is the time to get started in Arts District in a big way," he told FOX5.

He was also honest about the hard parts. "I think the area is on the upswing. Yes, there's been parking issues," he said. "But you're seeing a brand new parking garage about to open." That garage is real, and it is one block away. More on that below.

Finally, it matters for anyone who cannot or does not drink dairy. A lot of coffee shops offer oat milk as an add-on, sometimes for an extra charge. A shop that is dairy-free from top to bottom takes the guesswork out of ordering. For people with allergies or who eat a plant-based diet, that is a real convenience, and now there is a version of it downtown, in the southwest valley and in the south end of the valley near Henderson.

An iced coffee with plant-based milk swirling through it, the kind of oat-milk drink on the menu at Almond and Oat in the Arts District

Background and History

The space Almond & Oat moved into has a story of its own. It used to be home to Dig It! Coffee, a pink, disco-ball themed coffee shop whose mission is to provide jobs and opportunities for adults with disabilities. Dig It! ran in the Arts District for three years, according to FOX5. It closed that location in April 2026. FOX5 reported that the shop pointed to falling sales caused by construction on Charleston Boulevard, which restricted lanes and forced detours. An earlier FOX5 headline at the time tied the closure to parking challenges.

Dig It! did not go away. On Oct. 6, FOX5 reported that it reopened on the campus of the Garden Foundation at 8390 W. Windmill Lane in the southwest valley. The Garden Foundation is a nonprofit that owner Taylor Chaney started seven years ago to provide continued education for people with special needs. The new Dig It! is open Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Chaney told FOX5 the closure was about construction and other changes in the area, and that "it was time for us to start a new chapter."

The construction Dig It! pointed to is the Charleston Boulevard Storm Drain Project, a long-running flood control job that has torn up lanes along one of the main roads into the Arts District. The City of Las Vegas currently estimates it will be finished on Jan. 1, 2028. Parking has been a sore spot for Arts District businesses for most of 2026. In July, FOX5 reported on an open letter from Arts District businesses asking the city to change its parking fee plan.

The city did pull back. In an Aug. 26 update, the City of Las Vegas said planned parking changes set for Oct. 1, 2026, had been rolled back. Areas north of Charleston Boulevard that had been proposed for paid street parking will stay free until the storm drain project is done. Parking is free from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays for the lunch crowd, including in the new garage. And Arts District employees can get a $10 monthly permit for the garage or for 10-hour designated street parking.

The company behind the new shop has its own growth story. Cunningham opened his first shop, The Coffee Class, in 2019, right before the pandemic, according to FOX5. Many small coffee shops did not make it through that stretch. His grew to seven locations across the valley in about seven years. In the Sept. 30 preview, he described his goal this way: "My goal is to bring not just innovative lattes, but also specialty coffee back to Vegas."

The building the shop sits in also has some history. shareDOWNTOWN was developed by Cherry Development, which KTNV reported also built the downtown SoHo Lofts and Newport Lofts condominiums. KTNV described shareDOWNTOWN as Cherry's first apartment building, with 63 one-bedroom units, a courtyard, coworking space and two ground-floor retail spaces. KTNV reported it was slated to open in May 2020. The building's murals are easy to spot from Casino Center Boulevard.

The new five-story Arts District parking garage on South Casino Center Boulevard, with a colorful desert-themed mural on its stair tower

What Happens Next

The biggest thing to watch is parking, because it shaped what happened to the last tenant. The city's new five-story garage at 1421 S. Casino Center Blvd. opened at the end of September, about a block from the coffee shop. It has about 500 spaces and cost $32 million, according to the City of Las Vegas and FOX5. FOX5 reported rates of $3 per hour with a $15 daily maximum. The garage also has about 10,000 square feet of retail space and a five-story mural by local artist Victoria Hart. Who will lease those retail spaces has not been announced [NOT VERIFIED].

The second thing to watch is the storm drain project on Charleston Boulevard. Until it wraps up, currently estimated for Jan. 1, 2028, drivers will keep dealing with lane closures and detours. The $10 employee parking permits and the free street parking north of Charleston are both set to last until that project is done. Once it is finished, expect the city to revisit parking rules again.

The third thing is growth. Cunningham told FOX5 that two new housing developments are planned in the Arts District. He did not name them in the report, and their size and timing were not given [NOT VERIFIED]. There is also a live debate over a proposed Arts District business improvement district, which would charge property owners an assessment to pay for things like security, lighting and cleanup. That petition would go to the Las Vegas City Council for a public hearing if it gets enough support. How that turns out will shape costs for property owners and possibly tenants on these blocks.

As for Almond & Oat itself, neither FOX5 report said whether the brand plans a fourth shop [NOT VERIFIED]. For now, the downtown shop is open seven days a week.

Ryan's Take

Coffee shops are one of the clearest signals of how a neighborhood is doing. They need steady foot traffic, every single morning, to survive. When a local operator who already runs six other shops looks at a block and decides it is worth it, that is a vote of confidence you can see from the sidewalk. When a shop closes because people cannot get to it, that tells you something too. The Arts District gave us both stories in the same storefront in the same year.

For anyone thinking about buying or renting downtown, this is the kind of detail that matters more than any headline. Walkable neighborhoods are built one open door at a time. The Arts District has real growing pains right now, from the Charleston construction to parking costs to the debate over a new assessment district. But it also just added a $32 million garage, and businesses are still choosing to move in. If you are weighing a loft, a condo or an older home near downtown, it is worth taking a walk on a weekday morning and a weekend afternoon to see how busy these blocks really are. And it is worth watching how the next two years of construction play out.

A pink Dig It! Coffee We Are Open sidewalk sign with balloons outside the shop's new southwest Las Vegas home on West Windmill Lane

What You Can Do

If you want to try the new shop, head to 1300 S. Casino Center Blvd., near Colorado Avenue. It is open daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. If you are driving, the new city garage at 1421 S. Casino Center Blvd. is about a block away. Parking there is $3 an hour, and it is free from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekdays. If you work in the Arts District, ask your employer about the $10 monthly employee permit from the City of Las Vegas.

If you miss Dig It! Coffee, you can still support it. The shop is now open Saturdays and Sundays from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 8390 W. Windmill Lane in the southwest valley, on the Garden Foundation campus. If you live in Henderson or the southwest, the other Almond & Oat shops are at 10445 Spencer St. and 6555 S. Jones Blvd.

If you live, work or own property in the Arts District, keep an eye on the City of Las Vegas news page for parking updates and on any City Council hearing about the proposed business improvement district. Those decisions will shape what it costs to run a business, and to live, on these blocks for years to come.

Have questions about how this affects your home or neighborhood? Reach out to Ryan Rose or text/call 702-747-5921 anytime.