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Jia Ho Supermarket - Boston, MA

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 ...