Cary’s Waverly Place shopping center adding new retail and restaurant options
Three new tenants are joining the dining and retail roster at Cary’s Waverly Place shopping center.
Pineapple Sol, iCRYO and Mason’s Famous Lobster Rolls will join the mall’s 39 occupants, nestled in the intersection of Tryon and Kildaire Roads.
The Waverly Place location will be Pinapple Sol’s first brick-and-mortar shop. The women- and minority-owned restaurant launched in 2021 with an online-only concept. Its menu features “picnic-style” breakfast, lunch and weekend brunch dishes. The rotating selection includes fresh pastries, custom charcuterie boards, sandwiches and desserts.
“The food we are serving is inspired by our different cultures and backgrounds, especially the fresh pastries,” said Aleena Azhar, who co-owns the restaurant with Dahiana Vitabar. “We want the space to be the travel spot everyone visits and the community loves to know. We plan to do special events, such as high tea and other fun activities, along with popups with different chefs so we can bring different flavors to our seasonal menu.”
The restaurant will host a ribbon cutting at 10 a.m. on March 5. Grand opening activities will include a special brunch menu, Henna tattoos, face painting and gift card giveaways.
iCRYO, a nationwide cryotherapy chain, recently opened its second Triangle location at Waverly Place. The pain therapy, beauty and general wellness center offers IV infusions, whole body cryotherapy, body sculpting, infrared sauna, compression therapy and more.
“There’s a great lineup of health and beauty tenants at the project, and I think iCRYO really kind of enhances that,” said Jonathan Stewart, vice president of leasing at Northwood Retail, the management company for Waverly Place. “There have been a number of additions in that realm, and I think iCRYO really complements them.”
Mason’s Famous Lobster Rolls will arrive later this spring, Stewart said, on the mall’s plaza level next to StretchLab. Founded in 2014, Mason’s serves “Maine-to-mouth” lobster. Its lobster rolls are prepared “according to tradition with no bells, whistles or pretention,” the company says.
“In general, we look for unique operators, unique operations, unique concepts,” Stewart said. “...We’d like to think of ourselves being creative as far as retail and food and beverage leasing goes, finding unique options for the community.”
