Alpha & Omega

10/15/2026

Friday. Support & Share🙏
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10/12/2026

Roxbury History, 1968 Warren and Zeigler. This was less than a decade before we were established in 1977.

There was over 160 merchants in the triangle and the streets were packed for decades. The merchants were under the Roxbury Chamber of Commerce which then became the Dudley Square Merchants Association that welcomed Dudley Square Main Streets as a “program” introduced by Mayor Menino in the late 1990s. It then became Dudley Square Main Streets to what it is today aka Roxbury Main Streets.

2026, a half century later shows the triangle to be mostly nonprofit organizations. We have witnessed so many buildings with six-alarm fires and sadly today less than a handful of the original mom & pops are left.
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10/10/2026

Congratulations to our 2026 Alpha & Omega/ Everything is Real Workforce Development Graduates!🥳💕

10/07/2026

The amazing Legendary Backspins show is every Sunday from 3-5pm. Last Sunday’s Show featured our legendary brother MC Spice. TY & Let’s Go! 😎🚗

Mission of the Show:Hosts Rusty the Toe Jammer and Jeff 2Times out...

10/07/2026

Share & Support. Thank you & Let’s Go!😎🚗

10/03/2026

Roxbury Mom & Pop History.
Opened for 106 years. TY & Let’s Go!😎🚗

09/29/2026

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09/29/2026

Our neighbors for decades🙏😞.
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09/25/2026

Congratulations Phillip! Our FIRST Graduate of the 617 Reentry Barber 12 Week Cohort Program.🥳
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09/24/2026

Our longtime neighbors of 50+ years🙏


Tropical’s Update.
Source: Boston Globe
The new owners of Tropical Foods in Roxbury? The employees.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/14/business/tropical-foods-roxbury-employee-owners-esop/

When brothers Ronn and Randy Garry started chatting about a succession plan for Tropical Foods, the grocery store they own on the outskirts of Nubian Square in Roxbury, they thought about selling to a competitor — maybe one of the big regional chains.

They worried, though, about what might happen to Tropical’s 100 workers if a chain purchased the company. So the two brothers decided to sell it to the employees instead.

To help line up financing for the deal, Tropical turned to Apis & Heritage, a foundation-backed investment firm that specializes in arranging employee buyouts to protect blue-collar jobs. Now the company’s newly created Employee Stock Ownership Plan holds a majority stake, with a trustee overseeing the shares for the ESOP.

A board of directors will be set up in the coming weeks, one that will feature two seats for Washington-based Apis & Heritage, one for Ronn Garry, and one for an outside adviser.

Ronn Garry said his brother will exit in six months, while he’ll leave in around 18 months, after helping to find a general manager to replace him. He plans to stay on the newly assembled board for five years.

Both brothers are looking for a break from the grind of the past 30 years in which they worked through many holidays and often got up at 5 a.m. Their goal, he said, was: “how we could step back and not have to work those hours but still keep Tropical Foods the way it is.”

Choosing the ESOP route gives employees a stake in the company’s future while also ensuring stability after the Garry brothers’ departure. In five years, Garry said, Apis & Heritage will sell its remaining stake back to the company as well, presumably at a profit. Individual employees, meanwhile, will be granted equity over time based on their longevity with the business.

The Garry brothers have owned the store since 2006, when they bought out their father, and moved into the new 26,500-square-foot location in 2015.

Rumors had circulated through the ranks that the brothers had put the business up for sale, so employees were understandably nervous when they headed over to the nearby Residence Inn in waves for meetings on Aug. 31. The relief, Garry said, was palpable when they were told not only was no one losing their job, but they’re now going to be owners in the company.

“By the end of the day, when the last group came in, and they heard from the previous groups what was going on, ... it was a very different feeling,” Garry said. “This is such a great solution, and such a great thing for us and the community. This is real wealth building in Roxbury.”