The Marsh supermarket at 56th and Georgetown Road opened in 1989. It closed in 2017 when the company declared bankruptcy. Last I checked, the building was home to Indy Beauty and Carniceria Taqueria El Rey Supermercado.
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.
This was the Marsh nearest my home for 25 years. it was a small store, and it never seemed to be quite clean, but it was reliable.
Marsh really hit the skids during its final run.