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Sixteen weathered shipping containers are trading their lives at sea for windows, insulation, electricity and, eventually, human inhabitants through a new project coming to Grand Avenue.
The 9,500-pound steel boxes will form the architectural and aesthetic base of Containers on Grand, a complex of eight 1-bedroom apartments that will sit on less than half an acre off 12th and Grand avenues.
Valley-based STARKJAMES llc, the contractor and architecture firm behind the project, is aiming to make the containers rental-ready by the spring. The boxes were shipped to Phoenix from Los Angeles in October and November and are sitting in an industrial lot awaiting transformation.
