The Market Report

Newton Asian Mart Opened: June 2026 Owner: Quxiang Lin Previous Tenants:  Medi Mart (1974-ca. late 1980s) > Walgreens (ca. late 1980s-2022) Cooperative: none Location: 22 Langley Rd, Newton, MA Photographed: July 8, 2026 One of our posts this weekend is back up in Massachusetts, from when I was near Boston a couple weeks ago. In Newton Centre, a former Walgreens has become an Asian supermarket. The roughly 10,000 square foot building opened under the same ownership as the Boston-area C-Mart supermarkets , but under the name Newton Asian Mart. The interior is bare-bones, but rather complete. A large seafood counter lines the front part of the left side wall with produce in the middle, packaged meats in the back-left corner, and frozen foods on the right side with a few registers at the front. While it's not particularly visually exciting, and it looks like certain fixtures might be secondhand here, it's the only Asian supermarket in Newton and was busy when I visited on ...

H Mart Owner:  Il Yeon Kwon Opened: 2001-2025; reopened 2026 Previous Tenants: unknown Location: 1720 NJ-70, Cherry Hill, NJ Photographed:  June 5, 2026 The H Mart in Cherry Hill was one of the chain's relatively early stores outside the immediate New York metro area -- this store is close to Philly, not New York -- having opened in 2001, and it had become rather outdated . The basement supermarket closed in 2025 for remodeling, and over about a year it was expanded from the original 24,000 square feet or so to its present size of just under 40,000 square feet by taking up both floors of the building it's in. Now, the main supermarket is still in the basement, but nonfoods like kitchenwares, paper and cleaning, and personal care items have been moved up to the main floor. Also on the main floor is a large new food court with multiple vendors, and an attached Paris Baguette bakery/cafe. You can see the general shape of the building here, and the supermarket takes up the bas...