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...
Disease Causes Florida Orange Crop to Shrink
Florida’s orange growers keep getting squeezed. After the state’s crop fell to the lowest in almost five decades, production will probably will drop further in the season starting Oct. 1 as a citrus-greening disease continues to wreak havoc for the U.S.’s biggest producer. Shrinking plantings come at a time of diminished consumption. Farmers will probably collect about 90.75 million boxes in the coming year, according to the average...
