Can You Believe What They Did With Shipping Containers?

The shipping container: an incredible tool to revitalize neighborhoods and urban centers.

OPEN A COFFEE SHOP

Copa Vida worked with the development team at the GoPro headquarters in Carlsbad, California to incorporate a shipping container coffee shop to serve the 900+ workers in the complex.

Photo Credit: www.copa-vida.com

Starbucks Coffee opened a modern modular drive thru concept using shipping containers outside Seattle, Washington in 2011. Based on the success of this model, the company is now scaling up prefab models that will be assembled on sites that were previously viewed as too small to sustain the more traditional store layouts. These shipping container storefronts have since opened in Salt Lake City (pictured), Denver, Chicago, Portland and Virginia Beach.

Photo Credit: www.starbucks.com