Asian Grocer IndiFresh Set to Anchor New Apex Retail Development

An 18,000-square-foot IndiFresh Supermarket is set to anchor Glenn Square, a new retail development at 1215 Pine Plaza in Apex just off Highway 64 and around the corner from Costco, with groundbreaking planned for July.

Retail developer Pradeep Chakravarthy purchased the 5.47-acre site last April for $1.9 million, according to property records. Beyond the IndiFresh store itself, Glenn Square will include a second two-story building totaling 14,580 square feet of flexible commercial space for future tenants.

The project's target audience is western Wake County's rapidly growing Asian population, a demographic that has reshaped the region's retail calculus. Wake County now has the highest percentage of Asian residents in North Carolina at 9.3%, representing about 110,000 people, according to the latest Census data. The concentration is especially pronounced in Morrisville, where nearly half of the town's 31,000 residents are Asian or of Asian heritage.

Chakravarthy said the search for the right Triangle location took years. "As a local team, we've been searching for the right site for more than three years," he said. "When this location next to Hwy 64 and Costco became available, it immediately stood out as the ideal address for our next store. We honestly couldn't imagine a better location in the Triangle."

The IndiFresh brand is not new to the Southeast. Chakravarthy and his partners debuted their first store during the pandemic in Cumming, Georgia, just north of Atlanta, pairing the grocery with a small cluster of retail spaces. That location's fast-casual menu offers a window into what Apex shoppers might expect: butter chicken at $10.99, puri potato at $9.99, and paneer biryani at $12.99.

Glenn Square would bring a specialty grocery anchor to one of western Wake County's most active growth corridors, a stretch that has seen sustained residential and commercial development as the broader Triangle region's demographics continue to shift.