This Triangle town will get its first Target soon. When the store will open
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- Fuquay-Varina Target opens March 15 as Target’s 2,000th store.
- The 148,000‑square‑foot store has a large food & beverage area, plus a Starbucks.
- Store will employ about 160 people and is Target’s 55th North Carolina location.
The Triangle’s newest Target is notable for two reasons.
It will be the Minnesota-based retailer’s first location in Fuquay-Varina, and it will be the company’s 2,000th store.
The Fuquay-Varina location spans 148,000 square feet, which makes it about 23,000 square feet larger than Target’s average store. It will also have a food and beverage department that covers 13,000 square feet, which is 30% larger than the company average.
Located in the Gold Leaf Crossing development, the Target will also have a CVS Pharmacy, Starbucks Cafe and Disney Shop and offer Drive Up with 24 pickup lanes, Order Pickup, same-day delivery and next-day delivery.
The Fuquay-Varina Target, featuring an “open, easily navigable layout,” will be the 55th North Carolina location. It joins existing Wake County locations in Raleigh, Garner, Wake Forest, Apex, Holly Springs, Morrisville, Cary and Knightdale.
It opens Sunday, March 15 at 3200 Gold Ring Road. Around 160 people will work there.
Fuquay-Varina had an estimated population of around 46,300 people in 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Target expansion in the Triangle, NC
Target has plans to expand in North Carolina and throughout the United States.
Though the company has not announced when it will open, Target is building a new store in Selma, slated to be the first for Johnston County.
Elsewhere in North Carolina, Target is expanding in Fayetteville, Mebane and Myrtle Grove.
The retailer plans to open six other new stores in March across California, Missouri, New Jersey and Texas, it said in a news release. Target expects more than 30 new stores to come online this year and more than 300 new locations by 2035.
“Every time we open a new Target store, we’re planting roots in that community,” Adrienne Costanzo, chief stores officer for Target, said in the news release. “That means in addition to delivering a better shopping experience that’s faster and more reliable, we’re creating growth and opportunity — through good jobs, support for local nonprofits and long-term economic investment in the neighborhoods we serve. When our teams and communities thrive, so do we.”
Portions of this story were previously published in The News & Observer.
This story was originally published March 5, 2026 at 4:21 PM with the headline "This Triangle town will get its first Target soon. When the store will open."
