Foxtail Coffee Opens Second Apex Location at Sweetwater Town Center

Foxtail Coffee opened its second Apex location at 1451 Richardson Road, Suite 126, inside Sweetwater Town Center on March 27, joining a growing lineup of regional brands competing to capture the commuters and remote workers flowing through eastern Apex's newest mixed-use corridor.

The Sweetwater development is a 45-acre project sitting 1.3 miles west of I-540 on U.S. 64, and it has drawn a succession of businesses as the surrounding residential streets have filled in since ExperienceOne Homes debuted the neighborhood in 2016. A 125-room Tempo by Hilton hotel is scheduled to open on site in the fourth quarter of 2026 with 4,000 square feet of dedicated meeting space, a rooftop bar and a separate ground-floor restaurant, a combination that will sharpen the corridor's pull for brands depending on morning foot traffic and midday meetups.

Foxtail Coffee Company, which roasts its own beans at a facility in Winter Park, Florida, opened its first North Carolina location at 76 Hunter Street near downtown Apex. The company built the Sweetwater store as a community cafe rather than a dedicated drive-thru, which means the layout is designed to handle extended work sessions and group meetings alongside quick pickups. That distinction matters for remote workers weighing their options: Suite 126 has no drive-thru lane, parking is available in the development's shared surface lot, and Foxtail's other Apex location runs from 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week with spacious indoor and patio seating. The Sweetwater store follows the same community-cafe model.

The menu covers espresso beverages, cold brew, matcha and tea lattes, pastries and grab-and-go sandwiches. Foxtail's standard pricing at its Hunter Street location runs from about $3.49 for a straight espresso to $6.70 for a latte and above $7.50 for specialty cold brews, placing it in the Triangle's specialty-chain tier rather than alongside lower-cost drive-thru competitors.

Foxtail's move to a second Apex address reflects the calculus playing out across Richardson Road. The Sweetwater neighborhood has grown into a population dense enough to sustain neighborhood-scale retail that would have gone to downtown Apex or the Highway 55 corridor a decade ago. For a chain whose brand centers on coffee-shop-as-workspace, the combination of a maturing master-planned community, a coming hotel with bookable meeting rooms and a growing base of residents who work from home makes Suite 126 a logical next address.