Marsh Supermarkets opened Cincinnati’s first LoBill Foods store in 1993. After the chain was purchased by a private equity firm, the establishment was renamed Marsh Hometown Market. It closed in 2017. Most recently, the building was home to Mueller Distributors. It may still be.
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…..