This supermarket in Fort Wayne, Indiana was my twenty-fourth entry into my series, Abandoned Marsh. It opened as one of the company’s first “Lifestyle” stores in 2004. It closed two years later as the company was being purchased by Sun Capital Partners. Today, the building is vacant despite several attempts to repurpose it.
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“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.
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Filled with empty storefronts and deserted hallways, dead malls are a haunting reminder of a bygone era of retail. Recently, they’ve been blowing up my social media feeds as prime locations for urban explorers to go investigate as eerie relics of the past. But what about zombie malls- establishments that have risen from the grave under new guise to continue on long after their original demise? Elkhart’s old Pierre Moran Mall is one. Known as Woodland Crossing since 2006, portions of the mall rest -and rust- in pieces.
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