Main Street – Fields Corner

Fields Corner Main Streets is a nonprofit that supports and promotes the Fields Corner business district in Dorchester, one of Boston’s largest neighborhood commercial areas. Centered on the intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Adams Street, the district holds more than 200 shops, services and restaurants run by a diverse community of Vietnamese, African American, Cape Verdean, Irish and Latino entrepreneurs. The organization works to protect that diverse character while strengthening the area’s economic vitality.

The neighborhood takes its name from a general store opened by brothers Enos and Isaac Field at that same corner. Historic buildings include the Lenane Building, the former Fields Corner Municipal Building and an original Loews Theatre. Today the one-mile district offers everything from frozen yogurt shops and auto repair to banks, a post office, a library branch, a community health center with a pool, parks, a senior center and a supermarket.

What to Know

• It is one of twenty Main Street organizations established by the City of Boston.
• A volunteer board of directors governs the accredited nonprofit.
• The district sits beside the renovated Fields Corner station on the Red Line’s Ashmont branch.
• Surrounding neighborhoods include Meetinghouse Hill, Clam Point and Melville Park.