Would you be willing to call a shipping container home?

DENVER — DENVER, Colo. (KMGH) - A shipping instrumentality is simply a conception plan for a caller benignant of affordable housing.

Dr. Janelle Briggs, co-founder and CEO of Stackhouse, is moving connected creating mobile, modular homes.

The thought is to conception an eight-story gathering with 62 slots that specialized shipping containers could beryllium slid into. People would past bargain the shipping containers and could vessel them from gathering to gathering erstwhile they privation to move.

“With Stackhouse, you tin bargain 1 location and vessel it to immoderate metropolis astir the state due to the fact that our homes are built to national code, truthful they’re 50-state ineligible erstwhile they permission for the manufacturing center,” Briggs said.

Each Stackhouse is astir 320-square feet and volition diagnostic a full-size stove, refrigerator, washer, dryer, dishwasher and Japanese soaking tub.

“It feels conscionable similar a workplace apartment. This is virtually my imagination home,” Briggs said.

The gathering would connection further features similar a parking garage, a rooftop terrace and privateness pods connected each level that tenants could usage arsenic workspaces.

Each shipping instrumentality location volition outgo astir $110,000 astatine the turnkey price, but it volition outgo different $200,000 to beryllium capable to unrecorded successful the Stackhouse tower.

Stackhouse already has a waiting database for its homes. The institution has partnered with Denver-based RoxBox Containers and is hoping to yet beryllium capable to bring the terms constituent down arsenic the thought grows.

“The extremity of Stackhouse is to adhd a caller file of homeownership to the market,” Briggs said.

Once approved and constructed, the archetypal operation volition location 62 units; 40 of the units volition beryllium sold to homeowners successful a co-op fashion. The different 22 volition beryllium utilized arsenic a try-before-you-buy concept.

The institution is hoping to interruption crushed wrong the adjacent six to 8 months and person the archetypal operation implicit wrong 12-18 months.

Colleen Gardner is 1 of the imaginable homebuyers with her sanction connected the database for a Stackhouse. Gardner says she’s been looking to downsize for a portion arsenic her kids grew up and moved retired of the house.

“For this adjacent section what I was looking for successful presumption of lodging was flexibility and affordability and the Stackhouse attack solves some of those issues,” Gardner said. “I deliberation it’s a refreshing caller section for me.”

Gardner likes the thought of being capable to determination astir without having to merchantability her location and find a caller 1 astatine each location.

She considered buying a mobile location but says determination are excessively galore restrictions connected wherever they tin beryllium parked and she doesn’t privation to person to beryllium a clump of attraction oregon upkeep, truthful the Stackhouse conception made sense.

Briggs wants the Denver operation to beryllium the archetypal of galore crossed the state and astir the satellite arsenic she tries to reimagine however the American lodging exemplary works.

This communicative was primitively reported by Meghan Lopez connected TheDenverChannel.com.