Sears, Roebuck and Co. Building (Indianapolis, Indiana)

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Sears, Roebuck and Co. opened its first location in Indianapolis on July 25, 1929, just three months ahead of the stock market crash and the onset of the Great Depression.

By late-1986, the old building was the centerpiece of Lockerbie Marketplace, a $15M project by Mansur Development Company. O’Malia’s Food Market took the ground floor’s 35,000 square-feet as the first large supermarket in downtown Indianapolis in decades. They established an east facing entrance to the store that changed the address to 320 North New Jersey Street.

In 2001, O’Malia signed a new lease to stay in Lockerbie for six more years. That summer, Marsh Supermarkets announced a deal to take over the store. Eventually, rumors surfaced about Marsh closing the location, but in 2007 Marsh and Sun Capital Partners, Inc. made a commitment to downtown Indianapolis with a $3 million facelift to the building, and they rebranded the store as Marsh the Marketplace at Lockerbie.

In 2017, the local grocery chain liquidated its assets through bankruptcy. Findlay, Ohio-based Fresh Encounter, Inc. converted the former Marsh into a Needler's Fresh Market in September 2017 and completed a massive renovation in 2019.