The Marsh supermarket at 880 US-31 South in Greenwood opened as a Standard Grocery. Standard built some really off-the-wall concepts! Later, it became home to Preston-Safeway. Marsh eventually acquired it and operated it for years before it closed in 2012. Today, the building is home to Greg Hubler’s DriveHubler preowned car dealer.
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.
