A one-room schoolhouse has stood at Cyntheanne Road and Southeastern Parkway since 1900. Since Sept. 30, 2026, a 75,000-square-foot grocery store has stood just north of it. The schoolhouse is now Schoolhouse 7 Cafe. The new building is the Meijer Grocery at 15700 Southeastern Parkway, and according to LarryInFishers, it is the first Meijer inside the Fishers city limits.
Woods at Thorpe Creek sits off Cyntheanne Road between 113th and 126th streets. Neighbors heading north on Cyntheanne reach the new store's corner without passing through the Olio Road and Southeastern Parkway roundabout. The City of Fishers has torn that roundabout up through the end of the year. The timing of those two projects is what changes the neighborhood's fall routine.
A Corner Planned Two Years Before It Opened
The site was public long before the doors opened. In May 2024 the Indianapolis Business Journal reported that Meijer planned a grocery store and gas station on the north side of the Cyntheanne Road and Southeastern Parkway roundabout. Plans put it at the northwest corner of the intersection and north of Schoolhouse 7 Cafe, under an amendment to the Fall Creek Marketplace planned unit development. The same report put the site about three miles from Fortville.
The fuel station opened first. The Meijer Express next to the store opened Sept. 2, The Reporter noted, four weeks ahead of the grocery. The grocery opened Sept. 30. According to Meijer's announcement, the staff greeted the first shoppers with applause and then held a ribbon cutting. The company says it is its sixth Meijer Grocery in the Midwest and its second in Indiana. The first opened in Noblesville in 2024.
What Half a Supercenter Holds
Store Director Janice Thongvanh told LarryInFishers that a Meijer supercenter is roughly twice this store's size. She described the concept this way:
"The concept is a very in and out shopping experience. It's what you need for your everyday needs for your grocery shopping."
The checkout setup fits that description. The store has four staffed lanes and 11 self-checkout stations, and Thongvanh said the priority is moving customers through the staffed lanes. Thongvanh also helped open the Noblesville store at the Promenade Shops, so this format isn't new to the team running the Fishers store.
The smaller footprint covers a full weekly shop. According to Meijer, the store includes:
- Produce and dry grocery
- Fresh meat cut daily, and seafood
- A bakery with in-store cake decorators
- A full-service deli
- A pharmacy, plus health and beauty
- Baby, pet, floral, cards and party supplies
There's also a "Local Favorites" endcap of products made in Indiana, including Copper Moon Coffee, Triple XXX Root Beer and Just Pop In Popcorn. The store carries Meijer's Frederik's by Meijer and True Goodness labels. Home delivery, pickup and Shop & Scan are available, and Shop & Scan lets shoppers scan and bag items as they go. Through the mPerks program, shoppers can earn up to $1 off per gallon at the Meijer Express next door. That puts the weekly shop and the fill-up in the same parking lot on Thorpe Creek's own corridor.
The Roundabout That Shapes Everyone Else's Errands
The Cyntheanne corner matters more this fall because of the other Southeastern Parkway roundabout. The City is rebuilding the Olio Road and Southeastern Parkway roundabout, which it calls one of the region's busiest intersections. The project page gives January 2027 as the completion date. The project's bid totals $6,725,304. Construction went to E&B Paving, with an 80/20 split between federal and local funding.
The City's schedule for the rest of the year runs in phases. All dates depend on weather and can change:
- Phase 2, on or after Oct. 22. Southbound Olio drivers coming from north of the roundabout can't continue south and get sent west onto Campus Parkway/146th Street. Northbound Olio drivers detour on 136th Street and a newly built connection to Southeastern Parkway. Eastbound drivers use the bypass lane toward IU Health Fishers to reach the 136th Street roundabout. One westbound lane stays open toward Campus Parkway or north on Olio.
- Phase 3, November to mid-December. The roundabout reopens in most directions, but northbound Olio stays closed at the north side. Wendy's at 13708 Olivia Way, Taco Bell at 13778 Olivia Way and the other Olivia Way businesses can be reached only from the north, by way of Campus Parkway, Bergen Boulevard and Tegler Drive.
- Completion, January 2027. The City says the rebuilt roundabout will have more room for vehicles and clearer lane choices, and it expects fewer backups on nearby roads.
The City's Drive Fishers update for the week of Oct. 19 adds two nearby projects. 136th Street is closed to through traffic between Southeastern Parkway and Prairie Baptist Road while it is widened into a boulevard with multi-use paths on both sides. Utility relocation for a new roundabout at 131st Street and Brooks School Road may also bring periodic lane restrictions. Cyntheanne Road isn't on that week's list of closures and traffic impacts.
The new store ended up on the corridor that the construction mostly leaves alone. Households farther west near Olio will deal with the detours to reach it. For Thorpe Creek, getting to the Meijer starts on Cyntheanne. Construction lists change every week, so the City's road status map and project page are the places to check before a Saturday run.
The Schoolhouse Next Door
The store's neighbor is the older reason to stop at this corner. Schoolhouse 7 Cafe lists its address as 12125 Cyntheanne Road. It serves locally roasted Brickhouse Coffee and offers online ordering, and its posted hours are 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekends. The building opened as a school in 1900 and closed in 1945. A City of Fishers history feature describes how owners Curt and Sarah Tappendorf and co-owners Brit and Julie Killinger kept the building's bones visible. The old floorboards became the front of the bar and the wall behind the espresso machines. The removed floor joists became the upstairs community table.
A private event room called George's Study displays report cards and class photos donated by former student Dr. George Underwood. There's also a treehouse deck and an outdoor green space for events. The café has no newspapers and no TVs. Curt Tappendorf explained the reason in that City feature:
"The café provides a sense of gathering. We wanted to make sure that we brought things back to the way it was in the old days."
The two businesses complement each other. The café opens at 6 a.m. on weekdays, and the Meijer opened its doors at 6 a.m. on its first day, according to LarryInFishers. A coffee and a grocery list can now be handled in one early stop at the top of Cyntheanne.
Where the Holiday Giving Goes
The store has tied itself to local organizations from its first day. At the opening, Meijer gave $15,000 each to Fishers Youth Initiative and Good Samaritan Network. Fishers Youth Initiative provides mentoring, meal assistance and connections to community resources across the Fishers and Hamilton Southeastern community. Good Samaritan Network helps Hamilton County residents in crisis reach critical resources.
The store's first food pantry partner is Hamilton County Harvest Food Bank. Through Meijer's Simply Give holiday campaign, which runs through Dec. 26, the food bank will receive donations for its pantry. The campaign runs past the end of Phase 3 at Olio, which is scheduled to wrap up in mid-December. Through the holidays, the corner at Cyntheanne and Southeastern stays clear of the construction and gives grocery shoppers an easy way to add to the county food bank's shelves.
The store also hired more than 200 people through local job fairs, and Meijer says it was still hiring hourly, part-time and full-time staff at opening. Applications are at jobs.meijer.com/stores.
A new grocery store, a fuel station and a historic café at one roundabout change how a neighborhood's location reads to the next buyer. If you're wondering how the Cyntheanne corridor's new anchor affects your Thorpe Creek home, Allen Williams and the Williams Richwine Real Estate Group can put that into a clear number. Request a Complimentary Home Valuation.