Dominican businesses booming in Philadelphia From: philly.com
Tagged: circulation, Dominican, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Puerto RicanPosted on: June 22nd, 2008
The soaring number of Dominican bodega owners would seem to bear him out. Begun in 1998 with a handful of founders, Philadelphia’s Dominican Grocers’ Association today numbers about 300 active members and estimates that 1,000 bodegas across the city are Dominican-owned.
“We are in the places where supermarkets don’t want to be or fear to be,” said Jose Joaquin Mota, 42, who owned two stores in Philadelphia and now edits El Comercial, a two-year-old, 10,000-circulation monthly that caters to the grocers who have been buying up stores once held by Puerto Ricans and Koreans.”*
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