Anyone who has ever been a fan of The Boxcar Children book series may have found the thought of living in a railroad car intriguing. In fact, that is probably more likely the case now than ever before ...

As you probably know, there are quite a few shipping container homes for sale these days and a lot of them look really ...

A tiny house will never go out of style, which makes it a good investment. However, building one from scratch can be prohibitively expensive (unless you ordered a unit from Wayfair or Lowe's). Instead ...

Chicago may get its first multiple-home development made from shipping containers. Darryl Burton and Anthony Casbini have proposed building Vincennes Village on the South Side in Greater Grand ...

Joshua Clark is no stranger to the loss that comes from weather disasters. While he has overseen durable home construction ...

With their proposal to build a dozen homes from shipping containers on the South Side stalled, a pair of developers now plan to build homes made from the metal containers in south suburban Ford ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. A development team is pitching the first Chicago-area ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Grand Rapids company that gives old shipping containers new life as pools, homes and other living concepts is expanding. Blox CEO Chris Van Doeselaar expects to open the ...

If the developer building a six-story apartment complex in Salt Lake City out of shipping containers had it to do over again, he says he probably wouldn’t. Box 500 Apartments, the blocky ...

Shipping containers, once primarily used for transporting goods, are now emerging as an innovative housing trend in metro Detroit. A new development of single-family container homes on Detroit's east ...