The Market Report

Newton Asian Mart Opened: June 2026 Owner: Quxiang Lin Previous Tenants:  Medi Mart (1974-ca. late 1980s) > Walgreens (ca. late 1980s-2022) Cooperative: none Location: 22 Langley Rd, Newton, MA Photographed: July 8, 2026 One of our posts this weekend is back up in Massachusetts, from when I was near Boston a couple weeks ago. In Newton Centre, a former Walgreens has become an Asian supermarket. The roughly 10,000 square foot building opened under the same ownership as the Boston-area C-Mart supermarkets , but under the name Newton Asian Mart. The interior is bare-bones, but rather complete. A large seafood counter lines the front part of the left side wall with produce in the middle, packaged meats in the back-left corner, and frozen foods on the right side with a few registers at the front. While it's not particularly visually exciting, and it looks like certain fixtures might be secondhand here, it's the only Asian supermarket in Newton and was busy when I visited on ...

C-Mart Supermarket Open:  2004-2020 Owner:  Quxiang Lin Previous Tenants:  unknown Later Tenants:  vacant Cooperative:  none Location:  109 Lincoln St, Boston, MA Photographed:  July 20, 2019 and July 21, 2019 Today, there are two C-Mart supermarkets -- one on the border of Chinatown and the South End here in Boston, and another down in Quincy . But this store on Lincoln Street was their original location, with their second location being in what's now Jia Ho on Washington Street. This one is slightly smaller than the Herald Street location, at just about 13,000 square feet. It's on the ground floor of this somewhat strange mixed-use building, with offices and parking on higher levels. The store opened in 2004, then closed in 2020 for reasons that aren't quite clear. One of the strange parts of the store I noticed while walking around the outside: one of the signs, on the side of the building near the entrance to the parking garage, identified the s...

Jia Ho Supermarket Opened: 2014 Owner:  Qian Wang Previous Tenants:  C-Mart Supermarket (closed 2013) Cooperative:  none Location:  692 Washington St, Boston, MA Photographed:  July 13, 2019 and July 21, 2019 There are a number of theaters in downtown Boston and the surrounding area, and although Washington Street's Globe Theater ( later the Center Theater ) is no longer doing vaudeville shows, there is still a compelling reason to visit the building. Two, actually. One of them is easily visible from the street: the Empire Garden restaurant, whose main dining room occupies the former theater . (The theater, which later became a movie theater, eventually became a Chinese-language movie theater . It survived as the last one in Boston until 1995, when it closed and the owner converted the space to the existing dim sum restaurant.) The other reason to visit the building is much harder to see at first glance, but a careful look reveals the Jia Ho Supermarket on the ...