June 29, 2026 - 5:30 am

Las Vegas’ Filipino Town is poised to get a new supermarket in a space that another grocery chain vacated last year.

Island Pacific Seafood Market plans to open a store at the northeast corner of Maryland Parkway and Katie Avenue. It has a pending business license for the location, Clark County records show, and the supermarket chain had a “Coming Soon” banner over the front entrance as recently as a few weeks ago, though it wasn’t there as of Friday.

Plus, the Clark County Building Department on June 16 issued a permit, valued at $450,000, for interior tenant improvements for Island Pacific, records show.

The permit lists the square footage at 29,437.

Island Pacific is a Filipino supermarket chain with 17 stores in California, one in Washington state, and three in Las Vegas, its website shows.

The Southern California-based company did not respond to requests for comment.

Island Pacific is taking over a space at 3768 S. Maryland Parkway that was previously occupied by Asian supermarket chain 99 Ranch Market, which closed the location last year.

Jonson Chen, chairman of 99 Ranch, previously told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the company decided not to extend its lease on Maryland while it focused on its new store in the Boca Park shopping center near Summerlin, which opened in January.

Nonetheless, Island Pacific will still have a rival supermarket nearby on Maryland Parkway: Seafood City, another Filipino grocery chain, has a store less than a quarter of a mile away.

Last year, Clark County commissioners designated the stretch of Maryland Parkway between Flamingo and Desert Inn roads as the Filipino Town cultural district.

According to the application to create the designation, the Filipino community comprises the largest and fastest-growing segment of Southern Nevada’s Asian American Pacific Islander demographic.

Overall, more than 200,000 Filipinos live in the Las Vegas Valley, and the Maryland Parkway area has numerous businesses that cater to the community, including restaurants, bakeries and salons, the application reported.

Contact Eli Segall at esegall@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0342.