Star Market Opened: 2014 Owner: Albertsons Companies Previous Tenants: Star Market (mid-1950s - early 00s) > Shaw's (early 00s-2014) Cooperative: none Location: 49 White St, Cambridge, MA Photographed: July 21, 2019 For a couple days now, we've been right along the line between Cambridge and Somerville. Pemberton Farms was Cambridge, but bfresh and McKinnon's are Somerville. Today we're back in Cambridge for the Star Market at Porter Square! This 40,000 square foot store looks quite new, but isn't. It was built as a Star Market back in the mid-1950s, then became a Shaw's in the early 00s. It switched back to Star Market in 2014. There's a smaller Star Market about half a mile south of here, back in Somerville, that feels much older but was actually built around 1970. The most significant renovation and expansion, which also added the current exterior facade, seems to have happened around the late 1990s. You enter to the grand aisle on the left si...