Market 32 Opened: 2018 Owner: Northeast Grocery Previous Tenants: Price Chopper (mid-2000s - 2018) Cooperative: none Location: 72 Pullman St, Greendale, Worcester, MA Photographed: December 7, 2018; December 13, 2018; and July 13, 2019 We're getting down to the end here with our last few Worcester stores! Today's post is all the way near the northern city limits, just north of yesterday's former Fortin's Market (and likely a key factor in that store's demise). While that store closed at some point between 2000 and 2007, this store opened in the same time frame as a ground-up new build Price Chopper spanning around 62,000 square feet. (At the time, it was likely very similar to the slightly larger Main & Cambridge store, which opened in 2001. Today, they barely look like they're owned by the same company.) Side note: while I'm not positive about this, it appears this location replaced an older one at 184 W Boylston Street in West Boylston, which
Original Grocery Tenant: Fortin's Market Address: 540 W Boylston St, Greendale, Worcester, MA Opened: between 1969 and 1972 Closed: between 2000 and 2009 Later Tenants: Dollar Tree Photographed: January 28, 2020 Welcome to the former home of Fortin's Market, a 20,000 square foot independent grocer right along the main business corridor of Greendale. The store opened around 1970 and actually made it all the way past 2000, if the city directories are correct. (By 2007, the store was subdivided into a Halloween Outlet and several smaller businesses.) Eventually, the Halloween Outlet moved to a smaller space in the building when Dollar Tree took the main space and then closed. But even with all the shuffling, a few Fortin's signs remain on the right side of the building... I assume the painted signs are original to the store's opening, and the lower sign is probably newer but still has been there for several decades. (As of my last time passing by this building in the