Are shipping containers a solution to Portland's crowded real estate market?
A local developer says that the demand for small, flexible retail spaces on Portland’s peninsula served as the catalyst for the planned razing of a two-family house in Portland’s rapidly developing East Bayside neighborhood to make way for a retail incubator made entirely of shipping containers.
According to the Bangor Daily News, Jed Harris of North Atlantic Properties in South Portland will be leveling the dilapidated house on the corner of Washington Avenue and Marion Street this month to make way for six, 40-foot-long, 9-and-1/2-foot-tall and 8-foot-wide shipping containers for a retail incubator that will be known as The Black Box.
As reported by the BDN, the repurposing of shipping containers to be used as retail spaces isn’t as off-the-wall as it seems: Boxman Studios in North Carolina has used the crafty solution for several well-known clients including Adidas, Ford and Google, and London’s Boxpark is a popular shopping mall largely made from the containers.
“It’s kind of like a food truck that could move on to a restaurant. It will be low-commitment, monthly rates,” Harris told the BDN.
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