because of the unconventional nature of these projects. "Until you really build something, people don't believe you can do it," Leslie Horn, CEO of Three Squared, said this week at the Trumbull site as workers stacked nine empty containers from Detroit to create the three-story structure.Įmpty shipping containers have been used extensively in Europe to create not only housing but projects like office space for entrepreneurs and other types of projects. European nations already have allow buildings to use empty shipping containers to build schools, housing, and more. While tiny in itself, the project is seen as an experiment in using a new building technology as a tool in urban revitalization. Built by a firm called Three Squared, the project is designed as the first of several larger shipping-container projects to come in the district, now that the effects of the Great Recession and other challenges have finally been overcome. View Gallery: Detroit shipping container projectįirst proposed in 2008, an innovative project to use empty shipping containers to build new housing in Detroit is finally getting underway.Ĭonstruction began this week on a three-story model unit on Trumbull in the Corktown neighborhood.
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