Original Grocery Tenant: Brockton Public Market Address: 597 Centre St, Brockton, MA Opened: 1950s Closed: ca. late 1980s Later Tenants: assorted non-grocery tenants Photographed: July 6, 2019 In the late 1980s, a new Super Shaw's opened at the Crescent Plaza in eastern Brockton. The chain moved from their 1950s-era location on Centre Street about half a mile north. The original location, here in a strip mall that's now very quiet, opened as a Brockton Public Market, later branded as BPM Grocers and then eventually Shaw's. Part (or maybe all?) of the roughly 20,000 square foot former supermarket later appears to have become a movie theater, which closed by the time I visited the property in 2019. Interesting that the pitched roof is also visible inside, even though there's a drop ceiling. I don't know what this store's layout would've been, but perhaps the produce department was here on the left side. The storefront is clearly an old supermarket. A Do...