Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Cars on 5th hits the brakes for 2027
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Ninety-two degrees with a heat index near 108 — full locals'-summer mode, where the smart move is being done with the beach before the storms build. Today's surprise: Cars on 5th, the show that turns Fifth Avenue South into an open-air supercar gallery, just got told no for 2027.
Today
Beach and boat by sunrise today
High tide rolls into Naples Pier at 7:57 a.m. and again at 9:40 p.m., so take the morning — afternoon thunderstorms will stack up by 3 and it's a stay-hydrated, hat-and-water kind of day out there. Boaters, same rule: morning glass, then home before the lightning.
Local News
Cars on 5th denied for 2027
City Council turned down next year's application for the high-end car show, citing the crowds and parking crunch it brings downtown — but left the door open to a smaller, capped format. A reminder that even our marquee events are bumping into a Fifth Avenue South that keeps getting busier.
A new Publix is coming to North Naples
Tim Aten reports a Publix set to open midyear 2027 up north — still two years out, but around here a new Publix is its own kind of zoning tell for where the growth is heading next.
The old Weeks Fish Camp is now a public marina
At the end of Coconut Road, the historic fish camp on Estero Bay has reopened as Saltleaf Marina with 72 slips — a rare public water-access point tucked inside London Bay's 500 private acres. A little piece of Old Florida that anyone can pull up to.
Naples gets its own 'Shark Tank' again
SCORE Naples brought back its pitch competition with $11,500 in cash prizes plus coaching for Collier and Lee entrepreneurs — and summer, with the snowbirds gone, is exactly when our small-business owners have the breathing room to plot the next move.
The Naples Players need actors Saturday
Open auditions for two fall shows — 'Over the River and Through the Woods' and 'Rocket Man' — run noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 27 at the Sugden theater, 701 Fifth Avenue South, with roles for all ages and zero experience required. Always more fun on stage than you'd guess.
Food & Drink
Flavors of Fifth is back, longer and for a cause
Fifth Avenue South's summer dining deal returns bigger this year — 12 weeks of three-course prix-fixe dinners at $59 a head from July 8 through Sept. 30, with $1 of every meal going to Beverly's Angels. The locals' play: book the rooms that are impossible to get into come February.
Pho weather, believe it or not
Counterintuitive in June, but Pho 80 on Pine Ridge Road does the rich, slurp-worthy broths worth the sweat — and doubles as a taro-and-brown-sugar boba stop on the way out the door.