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$100,000+ Condos Made From Discarded Containers

Posted on May 13, 2008

Discarded containers have been stacking up at ports. They are cheaper to build new than to return to their country of origin, so they have been piling up up by the thousands.Now a Detroit condo project hopes to put discarded containers to use.The idea of putting people in empty shipping containers hardly evokes images of stylish urban living. But a Detroit-based group hopes to use empty shipping containers to build one of the most unusual -- and certainly one of the most innovative -- residential projects in southeast Michigan.The project would stack empty containers four high, cut in windows ...

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