Original Grocery Tenant: Fairway Beef Address: 48 Grafton St, Green Island, Worcester, MA Opened: 1946 Closed: 2021 Later Tenants: none Photographed: November 4, 2018 and October 11, 2021 It's quite the feat that two brothers, George and Jack Siegel, ran this butcher shop/grocery store for decades after their father started the business in 1946. The store finally closed in 2021 after running essentially the same for most of its life. That article also indicates that this area was once Worcester's meatpacking and sale district, but Fairway Beef was the last remaining business. Also in this neighborhood was the original home of C&S Wholesale Grocers, which eventually moved to the north to Brattleboro, VT and later their current home of Keene, NH. The store was around 6500 square feet and eventually is set to be redeveloped . The old-school sale sign facing Grafton Street outlived the store, actually. It remained up (barely) even well after the store closed. ...