Three large, corrugated steel crates stacked a few yards from the bustling Fremont Street corridor look like they would be more at home in the Port of Los Angeles than in the center of downtown Las ...

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Shipping containers may seem like a cheap path to a durable modern home, but costs add up when turning a bare metal box into a functional furnished house.

Detroit — Cardboard, markers and utility knives in hand, a mix of high school and college students formed an assembly line inside a 30,000-foot industrial space in Corktown. As two students traced ...

SEVERANCE — We’ve seen them house small businesses, restaurants, even a hotel. Now shipping containers are considered as primary dwelling units, additional dwelling units, home offices and studios.

The city of Cape Girardeau has not issued a building permit for a proposed shipping-container duplex because the developer has not complied with city requirements, development services director Alex ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A developer wants to breath new life into property at the corner of Wealthy Street SE and Fuller Avenue that’s been vacant since the late 1970s, but the concept — converting ...

Retailers today are being forced to innovate, and the ever-present battle between e-commerce and brick-and-mortar for sales is opening doors to some unique concepts. Take Co-Working In A Box’s new ...

Two shipping containers were dropped off this week on a grassy lot on the Near East Side that a builder hopes to turn into one of Columbus' first single-family homes built from a steel box. A ...

More than 30,000 apartments are being built in Dallas-Fort Worth. But a small Fort Worth project may be the most unique rental community on the way in North Texas. The 34-unit apartment project south ...

ALAMEDA — The Planning Board has greenlighted a proposal to use former shipping containers to house offices, a cafe and an apartment on a former used car lot across from the Park Street Bridge. Two ...