Marsh Supermarkets opened its Trios di Tuscanos restaurant in front of the company’s store at 14450 Mundy Drive in 2004. The restaurant shared space with McNamara Florists and copied the aesthetic of the company’s new lifestyle stores. Unfortunately, it closed in 2006. Today, the site is home to CVS.
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.
