America's Food Basket Opened: 2011 Owner: Edwin Polanco Previous Tenants: Finast (1930s-1980s) > People's Tropical Food Supermarket (closed 2011) Cooperative: America's Food Basket Location: 576 Washington St, Dorchester, MA Photographed: June 15, 2019 The main intersection of Washington Street and Talbot Avenue forms the center of Codman Square, one of the sub-neighborhoods of Dorchester roughly in Dorchester Center. The main supermarket in this area is today an America's Food Basket, but goes back as far as the 1930s when First National Stores -- later Finast -- first opened shop at 576 Washington. The 8400 square foot store stayed a Finast all the way through the 1980s, and at some point after that the People's Tropical Food Supermarket opened. People's occupied the spot until 2011, when America's Food Basket moved in. Between 2013 and 2015, AFB overhauled the whole store, expanding into a neighboring storefront and redoing both the inside and th...