Whole Foods Market Opened: 2003 Owner: Amazon Previous Tenants: A&P (ca. 1950-ca. 1980) > Heartland Drug (ca. 1980s) > Bread & Circus (opened by 1988, converted to Whole Foods in 2003) Cooperative: none Location: 916 Walnut St, Newton, MA Photographed: July 20, 2019 The Whole Foods at Newton Centre is a fairly innocuous-looking supermarket, but the 20,000 square foot supermarket's bland facade actually hides a long and interesting history. Around 1950, A&P built a roughly 10,000 square foot store here, facing the street with a parking lot at the side. By the end of the following decade, they'd nearly doubled it in size, expanding out the left-side wall and, in the process, turning that into the front wall so that the store faced the parking lot rather than the street. A&P actually remained here all the way until around 1980. By 1983, the space had become a Heartland Drug, which stayed until at least 1985, but by 1988, natural food sto...