Here Are The Businesses Braintree Residents Want In Town

BRAINTREE, MA — Take a look around, and you'll see lots of news businesses have come to Braintree over the last few years. Whether it be restaurants at Weymouth Landing, a new golf store, or a brewery, there's seems to have been plenty opening lately, but there's always room to grow. Patch asked what kinds of new businesses residents would like to see open in Braintree, and residents flooded Facebook and gave us a few ideas of what they want on Neighbor Post as well.

It's hard to list all of the businesses residents want to see come to town (there were more than 70 comments with suggestions), but here are some of the most popular answers.

Grocery Stores:

More than half the Facebook comments came from residents asking for another grocery store in town besides Stop & Shop. Trader Joe's and Market Basket were the most popular answers, with residents seeming to want a both a high end and more affordable supermarkets. Other popular answers included Wegman's and and Whole Foods.

Sporting Goods Store

Braintree for a long time was one of the best towns to go to get a baseball bat, or a pair of soccer cleats, but that all changed in 2016 when Sports Authority closed all its stores, including the Braintree location. Several residents took to Facebook asking for a new sporting goods store. A few people mentioned Dick's Sporting Goods as an idea.

Restaurants

New restaurants was a popular suggestion by several Braintree Patch readers, but most of the comments asked for small businesses. In most of the comments, residents said they didn't want a chain restaurant, but something unique to Braintree.

Have some ideas you didn't see mentioned? Add them to the comments on Braintree's Facebook post: