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Stop & Shop - Boston, MA (Longwood/Mission Hill)

Stop & Shop Opened: 2003 Owner:  Ahold Delhaize Previous Tenants:  none; other stores previously on property Cooperative:  none Location:  1620 Tremont St, Boston, MA Photographed:  June 2, 2019 and July 19, 2019 Welcome to Mission Hill! This store is right on the border of Longwood and Mission Hill, which is south of the Back Bay / Fenway area. This suburban area is between Longwood, the suburb of Brookline to the west, Roxbury to the east, and Jamaica Plain to the south.  This complex was a ground-up build in 2003, but it replaced an older store on the property. It wasn't a Stop & Shop, though. Instead, some searching on Newspapers.com revealed that it opened as an Elm Farms Food Store in April 1955. It looks like it may have been co-branded Elm Farms and Calumet Supermarket -- it appears that Elm Farms may have been a cooperative? -- and by 1978, it seems to have been co-branded Giant Value and Calumet. Calumet was in business until at least...