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Shipping Containers to Become Condos in Detroit
ABC News ^
| Fri, Nov 23, 2012
| By Karin Halperin
Posted on 11/24/2012 6:28:34 PM PST by haffast
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To: GeronL
Be "Progressive", Go "Green". (Thanks!)
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posted on
11/24/2012 7:01:01 PM PST
by
haffast
(Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. -Abe Lincoln)
To: haffast
it works for Odungo’s brother
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posted on
11/24/2012 7:07:25 PM PST
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: haffast
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posted on
11/24/2012 7:07:38 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Ditto
Not even close to 20 feet wide
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posted on
11/24/2012 7:12:41 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: haffast
That looks exactly like one of the stages in Modern Warfare 3, the video game
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posted on
11/24/2012 7:13:39 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: GeronL
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posted on
11/24/2012 7:14:55 PM PST
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: nascarnation
THAT might be 20 feet wide!
We’ll have to wait for the satellite photographs to be sure.
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posted on
11/24/2012 7:17:14 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: haffast
Well, they’ll be harder to destruct.
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posted on
11/24/2012 7:25:17 PM PST
by
TribalPrincess2U
(0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer. FREEDOM OR FREE STUFF- YOU GET ONE CHOICE, CHOOSE WISELY)
To: haffast
Frankly, the only way I would live in Detroit is in a shipping container house. While I am there, they are pretty fireproof and are more damage proof than wood houses. But most importantly,
they are shipping containers. Which means that at the first opportunity, I can get the heck out of Detroit and take everything with me. Who would want to get stuck buying an unsellable, unmoveable house in Detroit?
Lease some land, put a container house on it, and when you are done, put Detroit in the rear view mirror and don't look back.
To: haffast
Aah, look of the future.
Not to mention the noise.
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posted on
11/24/2012 7:27:45 PM PST
by
TribalPrincess2U
(0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer. FREEDOM OR FREE STUFF- YOU GET ONE CHOICE, CHOOSE WISELY)
To: nascarnation
To: Liberal Bob
i thought they were 10 by 20 or so, as they fit onto trailer frames for semis to haul. must have multiple sizes.
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posted on
11/24/2012 7:37:48 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: haffast
Container City II at Trinity Buoy Wharf,
London in September 2012
To: nascarnation
That’s got some really weird bumps and bulges. Sort of a hang down over the panty line.
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posted on
11/24/2012 8:12:51 PM PST
by
bgill
(We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
To: haffast
I don’t see any advantage to these things
other than that they are stackable.
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posted on
11/24/2012 8:21:11 PM PST
by
RockyTx
To: haffast
Native villages (such as Bethel) in west Alaska have been using shipping containers as living quarters for years.
I remember quite well a shipping container living quarter area of town behind the home I lived in with 30gal plastic garbage cans filled with potable water and 5 gal "honey" buckets, both located inside so they would not freeze and both serviced by city trucks once or twice a week.
Bootleggers and drunks for the most part.
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posted on
11/24/2012 8:55:18 PM PST
by
gettinolder
(Pursue the enemy relentlessly to the limit of every man's endurance.)
To: haffast
Now THIS is living!
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posted on
11/24/2012 9:00:24 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(The parasites now outnumber the producers.)
To: Secret Agent Man
They are usually just under 8 ft wide and are 20, 40 or 45 ft long
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posted on
11/24/2012 11:15:03 PM PST
by
Liberal Bob
(looneyleft.com)
To: RockyTx
I agree with you!
In fact I remember a show a few years back that discovered the price to convert a storage container was not cost efficient at all and ended up being 2 to 3 times the price per square foot of regular construction. There was also so some nasty problem with the paint they use to keep the shipping containers from rusting while traveling over seas. It caused cancer or something. This looks like more feel good hopey changey Solendra bologna.
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posted on
11/24/2012 11:32:04 PM PST
by
Casie
(Chuck Norris 2016)
To: Liberal Bob
the reason these steel boxes win the prize is simple: They are dirt cheap. Construction works out to $8/sq ft. Find something cheaper. You won’t.
The economy of scale was acheived on these a long time ago.
I’ll be an optimist here. Once installed, people’s sense of design will take over. The low cost leaves lots of room for expense on landscaping to break up their angular and ugly appearance. Give this time, I think this could be a winner in the struggle over low income housing. So long as they can fight the rust, too, maintenance costs should be very low for these metal boxes.
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posted on
11/24/2012 11:36:52 PM PST
by
bioqubit
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