Marsh Supermarkets acquired the Cox Food Market at 2200 Park Road in 2003 to operate it as part of its LoBill Foods division. The store closed in 2011. Today, after a renovation, part of the building is home to Tractor Supply Co.
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.
