Latest dispatch from the JP grocery wars: Could the neighborhood soon have too many stores catering to Latinos?

By adamg on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 4:26pm

The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports from the front: The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp. is thinking of renting space on Centre Street to a Latino-focused market - that could employ 50 people - but the city-sponsored Hyde/Jackson Square Main Street program says that with ten bodegas already in the area, one of the last things the neighborhood might need is another bodega.

The Gazette also recalls the last time a large grocery chain set up shop on Centre Street.

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There's a huge difference,

By anon on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 4:47pm.

There's a huge difference, with reference to access to healthy food, between a bodega and a Latino food store that employs 50 people.

Silly Rozzie resident

By anon on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 4:54pm.

A 50-person grocery store is in no way a "bodega."

Headline changed

By adamg on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 4:57pm.

You're right; sloppy writing. 50 people is more akin to Hi-Lo (which employed, what, 40?) than a mom-and-pop corner bodega.

Hey leave Rozzie outta this,

By TheRealAnon on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 5:00pm.

Hey leave Rozzie outta this, we're what every neighborhood wants to be, quiet and purty, that is until the ghetto and yuppie larvae seep in

You might want to chill, in that uniquely Roslindale way

By adamg on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 5:14pm.

I suspect the person was referring to the fact that that the author of the original post makes frequent, if subtle, references to his residing in Roslindale, not attempting to denigrate all of Roslindale, let alone those pastel yuppie triple deckers on Washington Street.