The original Marsh warehouse and headquarters in Yorktown was built on a twenty-acre site around an old milk condensary in 1952. The building expanded over the years, eventually encompassing about 360,000 square feet. After Marsh headquarters moved to Fishers, the warehouse closed in 2016. Today, part of the complex is home to East-Terra Plastics. 

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.