Indy’s Arlington Square shopping center was built in 1974. I hope someone chimes in with a specific date, but Marsh eventually opened a LoBill store in its southern space. The store closed in 2006 shortly after the company was purchased by Sun Capital Partners. Today, it’s home to a furniture and mattress store.
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.
I don’t recall a Marsh or LoBill Foods at this location (5940 E 10th St). Save A Lot operated there for many years before closing in 2024. Groceteria.com indicates that Standard Del Farm operated there from at least 1975 to 1980.
This one was just right up the road at 1107 N. Arlington. The buildings do look similar, though!