200 Boston Rd, North Billerica, MA

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, and we'll be taking a look at that store tomorrow!