A Future Born from Latino
Roots
Providence Journal Article
CENTRAL FALLS — To see where some of the newest
Latin-American and Hispanic-owned businesses are putting down
roots, take Exit 30 off Route 95 into Central Falls and make
your way to Broad Street.
Then head north toward Cumberland.
On both sides of the street, in a radius of no more than five
city blocks, a dozen new businesses have opened in the past
year, all owned by recent immigrants.
A former Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant reopened late last
month as Fiesta Meat and Deli, a meat market serving cuts
favored by most Latin Americans.
There’s a barber shop owned by a 24-year-old Puerto Rican
immigrant. There is also a Dominican restaurant, a Colombian
restaurant, and a Mexican taqueria.
The latest? Two boutiques specializing in the vaquera, or
cowboy, fashions popular in rural Mexico and Central America
that opened this year.
What unites the varied operations is that they all seek to
cater to the tastes of the city’s increasingly diversified
Latino population.
Also, these new owners have made the distinct choice to open
up on Broad Street, a commercial throughway that is away from
Dexter Street, a hub of mom-and-pop Latino businesses, in order
to capitalize on an underserved section of the city.
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