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Title: From Disinvestment to Displacement: Gentrification and Jamaica Plain's Hyde-Jackson Squares
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Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: On a January day in 2011, the website of the Jamaica Plain Gazette broke the news that Hi-Lo Foodsan independent grocer selling food staples to Latino and Caribbean shoppers throughout Greater Bostonwould close suddenly and permanently. The Hi-Lo had operated for 47 years on Centre Street in the Hyde Square section of Bostons Jamaica Plain neighborhood, an area named in recent years by a local business group as the Latin Quarter, and anchored commerce in the immediate neighborhood. Although Hi-Lo had been a busy and successful store in JP, as the neighborhood is commonly called, the owners got an offer so high they could not refuse it (Helms, 2011a) and signed a 20-year lease with Whole Foods Market, Inc. (Helms, 2011b). A Boston Globe story captured the change: For Jamaica Plains eclectic mix of hipsters, affluent professionals, and working-class Latinos, there has been no starker symbol of transformation in their neighborhood than the one announced yesterday: The tumbledown Latino grocery Hi-Lo Foods will close its doors and reopen as a sparkling new Whole Foods Market (Irons, 2011).
Url: http://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1363&context=trotter_review
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Authors: Douglas, Jen
Periodical (Full): Trotter Review
Issue: 1
Volume: 23
Pages: 1-79
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Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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