Abandoned Marsh: Broad Ripple Avenue in Indianapolis

The Marsh Supermarket on Broad Ripple Avenue in Indianapolis was built in 1996. The store closed in 2017. Today, the building is home to the midtown campus of Traders Point Christian Church

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…..

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