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Walker
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I thought I started a topic about this before, but can't locate it. What do you all think about the concept of re-using shipping containers for retail?

Intermission: A Coffee Shop Made Out of Shipping Crates
January 24, 2012 • 11:00 am PST

While recycling typically means using reusable bags and throwing trash in the blue bin instead of the gray one, a new Starbucks in Seattle has created an entire store from four old shipping containers.

The Starbucks officially opened in mid-December off Interstate 5 in Tukwila, according to Inman News. Spokesman Alan Hilowitz told the website the store will contribute to reducing the company's overall carbon footprint.

READ MORE: http://www.good.is/post/intermission-a-coffee-shop-made-out-of-shipping-crates/

Posted 3 months ago #
Walker
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Probably the most well-known version of this type of retail development:

http://dekalbmarket.com/

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Walker
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Another interesting idea:

Are Shipping Containers the Solution to Food Deserts?

MORE: http://www.good.is/post/stockbox-grocer-s-food-desert-solution-the-shipping-container/

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Twixlen
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It's funny that you're posting this, because I was looking at shipping container houses online last night.

I love reusing these for human-needs spaces - whether it be retail, or personal spaces.

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Walker
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Temporary shipping container mall to stimulate economic recovery in Christchurch

29th November 2011

Earlier this year we featured Boxpark in London, a pop-up shopping mall to be constructed from 60 shipping containers. Now in Christchurch, New Zealand, Re:START have used shipping crates to form a temporary retail center on the site of the Cashel Mall that was destroyed in February’s earthquake.

READ MORE: http://www.springwise.com/retail/temporary-shipping-container-mall-stimulate-economic-recovery-christchurch/

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Walker
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Crate expectations: Shipping containers used for first 'pop-up' shopping mall

By George Webster, for CNN
updated 12:22 PM EST, Fri December 9, 2011

London (CNN) -- Built on a temporary site and made entirely from recycled shipping containers, London's latest retail park lays claim to be the world's first ever "pop-up" shopping mall. The aptly-named "Boxpark" opened for business today along a vacant strip of east London's fashionable Shoreditch High Street. It is composed of 60 standard-size shipping containers, stacked two stories high and five rows wide.

READ MORE: http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/03/world/europe/boxpark-shipping-container-shopping-mall/index.html

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Walker
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SHIPPING CONTAINER RETAIL DESIGN

I wish I could see this cool new pop-up shop in person, but alas, it's in Manhattan and only until October 31. It's the first (albeit temporary) retail store for fashion designer Richard Chai, set in a shipping container underneath the High Line park.

READ MORE: http://www.dwell.com/articles/shipping-container-retail-design.html

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Does Anyone Own the Rights to Shipping Container Designs?
NATE BERGNOV 08, 2011

Locals in Christchurch, New Zealand, happily crowded into the city’s central business district last week, a place they’d been forced to avoid as the city rebuilt and recovered from the damage of a large and destructive earthquake in February. The crowds gathered for the re-opening of a popular shopping mall, though it has since reopened in a slightly different format. Stacked shipping crates have been installed as temporary storefronts, and what's been dubbed the City Mall Re:START project is now housing 27 retailers while the former mall continues its own recovery. Missing their favorite stores and the public experience of shopping, residents have been ecstatic about the temporary mall project. Less thrilled are the developers in England who say the whole thing was their idea.

READ MORE: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2011/11/shipping-container-pop-mall-called-ripoff/445/

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