Developers Thinking Inside The Box — the Cargo Box
Los Angeles — Slinging fresh juices and smoothies at two shops in Los Angeles, the owners of The Juice were initially skeptical when approached with an unusual proposition for a new location: a pop-up housed in a shipping container in the city’s Arts District. Elizabeth Halpern and her business partner, Melissa Cronkhite, questioned how many customers they would attract in the downtown Los Angeles neighborhood. What eventually won...
Living in Shipping Container One Man’s Solution to Housing
Luke Iseman has figured out how to afford the San Francisco Bay area. He lives in a shipping container. The Wharton School graduate’s 160-square-foot box has a camp stove and a shower made of old boat hulls. It’s one of 11 miniature residences inside a warehouse he leases across the Bay Bridge from the city, where his tenants share communal toilets and a sense of adventure. Legal? No, but he’s eluded code enforcers who rousted what he...
