Drive the stretch of Cameron Park Drive between Green Valley Road and Coach Lane and the signage tells four different stories. Camerado Brewing's tap handles came down in April 2025. The KFC bucket sign followed that summer. Mom & Pop Chicken Shop's pink and orange interior belongs to a different name too, though that swap happened earlier, back in 2023. And if you've been avoiding the Taco Bell on Coach Lane because the drive-thru line always backs up onto the street, you may not have noticed it's not even the same building anymore, a move that's been underway since late 2024.
Four storefronts, four different stories, all within a half-mile of each other, spread across different points on the calendar. It would be easy to read that as a corridor in flux, tenants cycling in and out because something isn't working. Look closer at what changed: Habit Burger Grill replaced KFC, Taco Bell moved across Coach Lane, Moirae Brewing moved into Camerado's former space, and Nick Dedier continued operating at the Green Valley Road address under the Chicken Shop name.
A New Brewery Moved into Camerado's Former Space
Camerado Brewing Co. had been pouring beer at 2650 Cameron Park Drive since 2022, built by owner Dan Lowrance as a small neighborhood taproom. In April 2025, Lowrance announced the brewery would wind down, calling it a "transition" rather than a closure. He wasn't wrong. Moirae Brewing Company, a husband and wife operation founded by Zach and Ariela Grinnell, moved into that exact suite that same month.
The Grinnells hadn't stumbled into Cameron Park. They'd spent more than a year scouting locations across El Dorado Hills, Folsom, and Cameron Park before Camerado's space opened up, and they'd already been pouring their beers around the region through a partnership with Dixon-based Ruhstaller. When the lease became available, they didn't have to build a following from zero. As inEDC reported, the move let them "expand production, welcome our loyal customers, and connect with new ones."
That's not what a struggling corridor sounds like. That's what it sounds like when a brewery owner retires from the business and a new one, already circling the neighborhood, is ready to walk in the next morning.
The Chicken Shop That Just Changed Its Menu
A few blocks south, at 3000 Green Valley Road, the story is different. Nick Dedier opened Mom & Pop Chicken Shop there in late 2021, built around organic fried chicken sandwiches. By 2022 he'd closed it, and, as inEDC reported, he told the Sacramento Business Journal that "supply and costs of organic chicken were inconsistent and make operating a restaurant solely focused on that product unsustainable."
Dedier didn't leave Green Valley Road. He didn't even leave the building. Chicken Shop opened in the same space under his ownership, with a wider menu: chicken sandwiches, burgers, chicken plates, fish and chips, a rotating blue-plate special, and beer.
Dedier isn't a stranger experimenting on Cameron Park. He and partner Alexa Hazelton also run Milestone Restaurant in El Dorado Hills Town Center, and their original Mom & Pop concept there was later reworked into Almighty Food Co. This is a restaurateur who keeps his footprint and adjusts the product.
The Chain Changes
Compare that to what happened on the chain side of the same corridor.
KFC's old spot at 3959 Cameron Park Drive, inside Cameron Park Plaza near the Cameron Park Drive and Green Valley Road intersection, became a Habit Burger Grill, with a grand opening on July 23, 2025. That's a straightforward swap: one national chain's lease ended, another chain's franchisee moved in. Nobody from the KFC side stuck around to run charburgers instead of fried chicken.
The Taco Bell on Coach Lane is a bigger move. That location, at 3382 Coach Lane, sat across the street from a vacant 10,976-square-foot office building that had been fenced off and unused for years. Taco Bell relocated from 3382 Coach Lane to a rebuilt building at 3371 Coach Lane, a $2.5 million project undertaken by property owner JAS Properties LLC after it bought the parcel in 2023. The original plan called for a five-month construction timeline and a spring 2025 opening, with the new building designed around mobile orders and pickup rather than the dine-in model the old location used. The original address now shows as closed. That's not a brewery owner handing the keys to someone who already knew the neighborhood. It's the same chain moving to a new address, not a handoff to a new operator.
Here's the same corridor, side by side, then and now:
| Business | Address | What Changed |
|---|---|---|
| Camerado Brewing Co. | 2650 Cameron Park Dr, Suite 370 | Moirae Brewing moved into Camerado's former space |
| KFC | 3959 Cameron Park Dr | Replaced by Habit Burger Grill, new operator |
| Mom & Pop Chicken Shop | 3000 Green Valley Rd | Same owner (Nick Dedier), rebuilt as Chicken Shop |
| Taco Bell | 3382 → 3371 Coach Ln | Same brand, relocated to a rebuilt lot across the street |
What the Reshuffle Actually Tells You
Four sign changes look like turnover. Look closer at what changed and you get a cleaner read: Habit Burger Grill replaced KFC, while Taco Bell relocated from 3382 Coach Lane to 3371 Coach Lane. The local businesses changed in different ways: the Grinnells moved Moirae into Camerado's former space, while Dedier kept the Green Valley Road address and reworked the restaurant concept.
That's a useful thing to know if you live along this stretch and you've been wondering whether the turnover means something is wrong with the corridor. These changes alone don't settle that question: JAS Properties LLC undertook the Taco Bell redevelopment, and Moirae's founders had spent more than a year scouting locations across El Dorado Hills, Folsom, and Cameron Park before moving into Camerado's former space.
What's Actually Open Right Now
If you haven't been down that way recently, Moirae is pouring the Hazel's Nuts sweet stout and the Stowaway hazy IPA out of the old Camerado taproom. Habit Burger is serving charbroiled burgers where the KFC bucket used to hang. Chicken Shop is still slinging Dedier's fried chicken, just with fish and chips and a blue-plate special added to the menu. The PHS Foundation Cornhole Tournament was scheduled for September 19 at Burke Junction Shopping Center. The Community Services District's usual run of craft faires and pancake breakfasts fills up the fall calendar.
None of this changes anything about buying or selling a home in Cameron Park. But if you've lived here long enough to watch four different signs come and go, it helps to know which of those changes mean something and which ones don't.
If you're weighing a move in or around Cameron Park and want a read on how a specific street or neighborhood is actually holding up, the team at Turner DeMarco tracks this kind of detail block by block. Reach out for a free home valuation and a conversation grounded in what's actually happening on the ground, not just what the listing portals show.
