New Stores: Shipping Containers?

Nashville’s One City healthcare and technology-focused mixed-use development will feature retail spaces constructed of repurposed shipping containers. “C1TYblox” will be comprised of 21 of the containers, which will be assembled and arranged “to create a mini-retail district spotlighting food, fitness and event spaces,” Ryan Doyle, general manager for One City or “oneC1TY” project.

C1TYblox will include a mix of programmable outdoor space, restaurants and fitness-oriented service businesses. The developer says it will seek locally-based businesses as tenants, according to the Nashville Post. It is hoped that the use of shipping containers will allow developer Cambridge Holdings, Inc. (Nashville) to launch businesses at oneC1TY sooner than it could with conventional construction and complement the company’s goals of environmental sensitivity.