A SuperStandard at 3737 E. Washington Street in Indianapolis opened in 1980. Marsh bought the store two years later. Eventually, the company rebranded it as LoBill Foods. The east half the building became Savin*$ Mercado in 2002, but Marsh closed both sides four years later. Today, the structure houses Save-A-Lot and the Marion County Election Board Service Center.
“Abandoned Marsh” was my project to stylistically document the Marsh Supermarkets closed by Sun Capital Partners, an investment firm that owned the home-grown company for the final decade of its eighty-six year history. The last Marsh supermarket closed in 2017.
The company’s stores built from around 1980 to 2004 or so were easily identifiable because of their angular greenhouses and dark brick massing. Instead of taking pictures of the buildings, I decided to create 18×24 vector files in Adobe Illustrator, focusing on the complexity of their angles and how shadows and highlights interacted with them.
