The Market Report

  I hope you've enjoyed the last couple weeks here in Dorchester. There was a lot we saw, so if you missed anything, you can see all the stores on this map. Coming Up Next Just to the west of Dorchester and to the north of Roslindale is the neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. Once the center of Cuban and Central American population in the city, over the last 20 years or so the neighborhood has gentrified -- exemplified in no way better than the stalwart Hi-Lo Foods , which became the source for all Latin foods in Boston. In 2011, the store closed and was replaced by a Whole Foods. We'll tour that store and visit plenty more -- representing both the gentrification and the remaining neighborhoods with Latin communities. Tomorrow, we're going to check out two former grocers at Forest Hills in the southern part of Jamaica Plain!

America's Food Basket Opened: 2011 Owner:  Edwin Polanco Previous Tenants:  Finast (1930s-1980s) > People's Tropical Food Supermarket (closed 2011) Cooperative:  America's Food Basket Location:  576 Washington St, Dorchester, MA Photographed:  June 15, 2019 The main intersection of Washington Street and Talbot Avenue forms the center of Codman Square, one of the sub-neighborhoods of Dorchester roughly in Dorchester Center. The main supermarket in this area is today an America's Food Basket, but goes back as far as the 1930s when First National Stores -- later Finast -- first opened shop at 576 Washington. The 8400 square foot store stayed a Finast all the way through the 1980s, and at some point after that the People's Tropical Food Supermarket opened. People's occupied the spot until 2011, when America's Food Basket moved in. Between 2013 and 2015, AFB overhauled the whole store, expanding into a neighboring storefront and redoing both the inside and th...