The Market Report

Market Basket Opened: ca. 1990 in current location; ca. 1960 in previous location in strip mall Owner:  DeMoulas family Previous Tenants:  none Cooperative:  none Location:  199 Boston Rd, North Billerica, MA Photographed:  July 8, 2023 Welcome to another Market Basket! Yesterday I posted a small former A&P across the street which was built in the 1950s, and the following decade, this strip mall was constructed with a roughly 20,000 square foot Market Basket. By 1995, Market Basket had built a new store at the opposite end of the strip mall, which is the one that's now in business. It's around 50,000 square feet. There's a very important note I must make here: the town we're in is North Billerica (which is, of course, just north of Billerica). And that's pronounced bill-RICK-uh, not bill-ER-i-ca as you'd assume. At least it's not as bad as Woburn, ten miles south, which is pronounced WOO-bin. Inside, it will not surprise anyone that it looks exactly li...

Original Grocery Tenant: A&P Address: 200 Boston Rd, North Billerica, MA Opened:  ca. 1950s Closed:  unknown Later Tenants:  assorted non-grocery tenants Photographed:  July 8, 2023 It's been extensively disguised, but yes, that's a former A&P Centennial store behind the O'Reilly Auto Parts sign. My best guess is that this store opened in the 1950s before the centennial era as a 10,000 square foot standard A&P, then was converted fairly simply to a centennial store around 1960. It had the centennial facade by 1963, but it doesn't have any other obvious centennial design elements, making me think it wasn't built as one. I see similarities instead to a store like this . It was expanded with an additional 5000 square feet on the left side between 1978 and 1981, but I don't know if that was done by A&P or some later tenant since I don't know when A&P closed. This store competed with a slightly newer Market Basket directly across the street...