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MARSHALL COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — A new, non-traditional, housing community could be on the way in Marshall County.
It would turn a former mobile home park into an upscale residential area.
The proposed plans are for 33 two-story homes made out of shipping containers that are meant to last 200 years.
Thomas Landgrebe got the idea for the homes after building the modular home museum in Elkhart, which is now in the RV hall of fame.
He wants to take the old Maple Leaf Mobile Home Park on Michigan Road, between LaPaz and Plymouth, and create affordable housing for the community.
“It will be very much like a condominium. With this, it'll be like...
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Back before Zappos founder Tony Hsieh died in a tragic fire his personal assistant gave me a tour of his Airstream Village community in which he lived in downtown Las Vegas. She told me the story of how he originally wanted to make Airstream Village out of shipping containers (it ended up being Airstream RVs and tiny homes) but found them to be unsuitable from a utility cost standpoint (“they were like tiny ovens” she said). So that’s problem #1. But the bigger issue is that I don’t think that anyone will pay $200,000 to live in a shipping container in Indiana – and then pay lot rent on top of that. This is a product that might work on the beach or a mountaintop. But maybe I’m wrong.