Shipping Container Hotel Project Floats Its Plan At Eastern Market's Flower Day

See The Shipping Container Hotel At Eastern Market

The prototype for the "most important hotel in America" is sitting on a patch of grass at Eastern Market, says a national hotel guru. But to the throngs who will visit today's annual Flower Day at Eastern Market, it will look like a creatively customized shipping container.

The shipping container is a mini version of a hotel lobby as envisioned by Shel Kimen, 42, a Michigan State University graduate and former New York advertising executive. She is trying to raise $4 million to erect a 36-unit boutique hotel built from shipping containers on city-owned land nearby.

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