By Elias Weiss | Phoenix New Times
Oscar the Grouch isn’t the only one who loves living in a metal bin. Some Phoenix residents also have a taste for living in metal bins stacked on top of each other.
Eighteen Phoenix families are poised to move next week into IDA on McKinley, the tallest tower in North America made entirely out of shipping containers, according to developers.
The six-story, mixed-use new construction at McKinley and Third streets is a small step toward solving both the housing shortage and climate change crisisin Phoenix, according to the city.
Downtown Phoenix-based Local Studio, the self-styled preeminent shipping container project developer in America, embraced jokes about “dumpster projects,” and gave the Sesame Street star a nod in one of its germinal developments, theOSCAR at Portland and Second streets.
