O|Zone Developers transform yesterday’s commercial sites into mixed-use town centers — vibrant destinations that combine retail, dining, and entertainment, designed for walkability and community gathering.
Across America, modular container design is reshaping how communities use space. Outdated shopping centers, warehouses, and parking areas are being reimagined into entertainment venues, restaurants, and cultural hubs — flexible, sustainable, and scalable.
By 1987, the Principals collaborated with BankAmeraLease and Ryder International in a $100 million program to rollout of “Lock Box” modules across 26 U.S. cities.
For US institutional investors at the time, this "rolling stock" qualified for 10% Investment Tax Credit, 5 year depreciation and could be placed on land being warehoused for future developing, enabling its owners to deduct financing interest. Today, the OneBigBeautiful Bill has expanded these benefits.
Other uses included locating these 5' x 8' compartments on apartments, shopping centres, convenience stores, RV sites, marine docks .... providing easy access to convenient storage.
The images below provide examples of the broad range of designs and usages to which modular containers have been applied.
Developers may consider a mix of container placements for an outside dining effect as well as multi-container structures
Modular Containers offer unique cafe style and quick dining options
Home designs have including a broad range of styles for city, rural and unique locations
Across the world, modular architecture has proven its power to adapt.
O|Zone builds on that foundation—bringing purpose-built GreenBox systems into communities through a unique Sponsoring Business framework.
Each Sponsoring Business forms the bridge between local opportunity and global infrastructure, enabling entrepreneurs, governments, and investors to participate in the same modular ecosystem.
Within this structure, GreenBox containers become more than traditional infrastructure—they become instruments of development, powered by digital intelligence and sustained by recurring community value.
Each GreenBox is not only designed to exacting high level standards, but includes a range of value enhancements not existing in traditional intermodal containers.
O|Zone Ecosystem expands local Opportunities into a countywide network—combining land, talent, energy, and digital infrastructure to attract investment, create jobs, and build lasting community revenue and value appreciation. GreenBox™ containers may accelerate growth.
Explore O|Zone Sponsoring BusinessPrincipals of O|Zone have developed a number of use cases for application of GreenBox containers.
An example Special Improvement District project describing the interaction between Government Authorities, a Special Improvement District, the Opportunity Framework and the O|Zone™ Ecosystem for improving local economies
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