By FRED SWIFT
Needler’s Fresh Market food stores will open a new location at 126th Street and Gray Road in Carmel. The food store chain has several locations in Central Indiana. It will open on or about Aug. 1 in a building formerly occupied by O’Malia’s supermarket.
The area on the eastside of Carmel has been without a grocery store since O’Malia’s closed about four years ago. Kyle Jorns, formerly with O’Malia’s, will manage the new operation.
He said the store will offer new amenities including a coffee and donut dispenser for morning visitors. Many eastside Carmel residents have been eagerly awaiting a store to open at the location so as to avoid a drive to stores outside the immediate area.