AG to SnapSpace: Stop selling shipping containers for housing
A Brewer business that repurposes old shipping containers has been ordered by the state attorney general’s office not to build or sell any units intended for housing because it doesn’t have a license to do so.
The Bangor Daily News reported that SnapSpace Solutions Inc. has been retrofitting old shipping containers for new uses, from offices and storage units to concession stands and restrooms, since it opened its doors in Brewer in early 2011.
Assistant Attorney General Christopher L. Mann sent a cease-and-desist letter to SnapSpace in August, saying the company could be fined $10,000 for every family dwelling it manufactures and could face criminal charges.
SnapSpace President and CEO Chad Walton told the BDN on Wednesday that no one from the state had reached out to him to discuss concerns.
Mann told the BDN Wednesday that Glenburn’s code enforcement officer reached out to the state last month when he received a site development plan that would have put a SnapSpace family home in Glenburn.
Walton told the newspaper his lawyer is contacting the state and expressed confidence that the state’s concerns will be allayed after that discussion.
SnapSpace has built a number of “cargotecture” housing units in the state, including a houseboat in Belfast for Front Street Shipyard co-owner Steve White that sits on a custom-built barge on the waterfront.
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