If you spent the past several years driving past the Newbury Park Library on a Saturday looking for a farmers market and finding an empty parking lot instead, you weren't imagining things. The market that used to run there, at Borchard Road and Michael Drive, closed in February 2017. For close to nine years, Newbury Park was without a weekly market of its own, even as nearby Camarillo and Agoura Hills kept theirs running.
That changed on October 4, 2025, when a new Newbury Park Farmers Market opened. Same day of the week, same general hours, a different corner of town entirely. It now runs Saturdays from 9am to 2pm at the Conejo Gateway Plaza, at the corner of Wendy Drive and Old Conejo Road.
A market disappearing for the better part of a decade and reappearing somewhere else isn't just a scheduling quirk. It's a signal. Retail energy in a suburban town doesn't relocate by accident, and this is not the only sign of it happening in Newbury Park this year.
| Old market | New market | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Newbury Park Library lot, Borchard Rd & Michael Dr | Conejo Gateway Plaza, 727 N. Wendy Dr |
| Hours | Saturdays, 9am to 2pm | Saturdays, 9am to 2pm |
| Status | Closed February 2017 | Opened October 4, 2025 |
Two other corners of town have shifted in the same stretch of months, and each one is solving a different gap.
A trattoria moves into the old Selvin's space
For years, Selvin's occupied a dining room inside the Palm Garden Hotel on Ventu Park Road, the kind of steady, familiar restaurant that doesn't generate headlines because it doesn't need to. It closed on December 31, 2025. New signage went up the same weekend, and by January 21, 2026, Sette Sorelle Restaurant and Lounge was open for reservations at 495 N. Ventu Park Rd.
The restaurant is the second concept from Jacopo Falleni, who also runs Nonna in Westlake Village. Falleni trained in hospitality in his native Florence, opened Manhattan's first homemade gelato shop, and later ran Firenze Osteria in Toluca Lake and Café Firenze in Moorpark before landing in Newbury Park. Where Nonna leans into traditional Italian cooking, Sette Sorelle is built around shareable plates, house-made pastas, handcrafted cocktails, and live music, a noticeably more polished register than what had been in that dining room before. A look at the current menu gives a sense of where it sits: a Cesarina salad runs $21.60, tonnarelli and tagliatelle are $25.20, and chicken parmigiana is $43.20. It's currently open Tuesday through Sunday for dinner, closed Mondays.
A hotel restaurant closing after a long run and reopening under a completely different concept, at a higher price point, with a chef who already has a following at another Conejo Valley address, tells you something about who the neighborhood's evening crowd is expected to be going forward.
The coffee corner on Broadbeck Drive gets crowded anyway
Meanwhile, on Broadbeck Drive, a stretch of Newbury Park that already has more coffee options than most small towns, a new one is moving in regardless. Cotti Coffee, a Chinese multinational chain founded in August 2022 that has grown into the fourth-largest coffee brand in the world with more than 18,000 locations across 28 countries, is opening a location at 1025 Broadbeck Drive, Suite D, in The Village at Newbury Park, sandwiched between a Subway and a Verizon store.
That spot sits roughly 400 feet from an existing Starbucks drive-thru nearby on Broadbeck Drive, the first drive-thru Starbucks to open anywhere in the Conejo Valley back on January 18, 2013. It's also a short walk across the street from both Conejo Coffee and Makenna Koffee, and not far at all from the Starbucks tucked inside the Target on Teller Road. A new chain moving onto a block that already has four coffee options within a short walk of each other is a strange decision if that block isn't drawing traffic. Chains generally don't crowd into corners that are quiet.
There's a second layer here, too. Reports point to another new Starbucks heading to the Conejo Gateway Plaza, near Wendy Drive and Old Conejo Road, the same plaza that just picked up the new farmers market. So the plaza gaining the weekly market is also gaining a coffee chain, and the block already saturated with coffee is gaining one more anyway. That's two different corridors upgrading for two different reasons at the same time, plus a third corridor on Ventu Park Road getting a dinner upgrade. None of these three things needed to happen together. They did.
What hasn't moved
For everything shifting along the retail spine of town, the parts of Newbury Park that draw people outdoors have stayed exactly where they've always been, and that consistency is worth noting on its own.
Wildwood Regional Park still spans roughly 1,765 acres across the border of northern Newbury Park, western Thousand Oaks, and southern Moorpark, with more than 27 miles of trail between its four main routes: Mesa, Moonridge, Wildwood Canyon, and Santa Rosa. The walk most people come for is still Paradise Falls, reached by following the Mesa Trail to the Teepee Trail and then down a series of switchbacks into the ravine. Round trip, it runs about three miles and takes most hikers around 75 minutes, waterfall included.
A short drive away, the Satwiwa Native American Indian Culture Center still sits at the Rancho Sierra Vista site, near the trailhead many hikers use on their way toward Boney Peak. And the Stagecoach Inn Museum on Ventu Park Road keeps its own steady calendar running, from a self-guided tour connecting sixteen historical sites around town and ending at the Pederson House on the Cal Lutheran campus, to smaller recurring programs like its plein air painting sessions and, earlier this month, a special exhibit marking a century since Jungleland first opened. None of that required a new tenant or a new sign. It was already there, and it still is.
The map is being redrawn corner by corner
None of this adds up to Newbury Park becoming a different place. The trails are the same trails. The mountains haven't moved. What has changed is where the daily errands happen. If your Saturday morning routine used to route past the library looking for produce, it now runs to Wendy Drive instead. If Selvin's used to be your answer for a low-key dinner out, that answer now involves handcrafted cocktails and live music at a higher price point. And if you've been loyal to one coffee shop on Broadbeck Drive out of habit, you're about to have even more competition for your business within a block's walk.
Small towns don't usually update three separate commercial corridors in under a year. Newbury Park just did, and the details matter more than the headline. A market's new address tells you where foot traffic is heading. A chef's second restaurant tells you what price point the neighborhood can support. A fifth coffee shop opening next to four others tells you the block was already busy enough to justify it.
Karen Sandvig has been watching corners like these shift across the Conejo Valley for years, and she's always glad to talk through what's actually happening on a specific block, whether you're thinking about a move or just trying to figure out where to get your coffee these days. If you're curious what any of this means for your own home's value in this stretch of Newbury Park, reach out to Karen Sandvig for a complimentary home valuation and marketing plan.
