Downtown Las Vegas Shipping Container Park

As downtown Las Vegas continues to evolve, it was only a matter of time before someone in that once neglected area jumped on the bandwagon and built a multi-purpose shipping container park.

One of the downsides to cruising the Las Vegas’ strip is how massive it is and how spread out the casino and dining establishment are from one another. If you can find your way out of a casino (no easy task), try navigating the streets and bridges. Downtown, however, is another matter. Called the Downtown Container Park, the downtown shopping and dining experience was the brainchild of Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos.  Mr Hsieh took advantage of downtown’s more compact layout to launch his vision of this outdoor venue.

Launched in 2013, the Vegas Container Park is just a part of a larger vision Mr Hsieh has for Downtown Las Vegas.  In 2012, Mr Hsieh, with an investment of $350 million, founded the Downtown Project, the goal and purpose of which is to “help make Downtown Las Vegas a place of inspiration, entrepreneurial energy, creativity, innovation, upward mobility, and discovery. The community-oriented organization does this through the three Cs of collisions, co-learning and connectedness in a long-term, sustainable way.”

In 2013, Hsieh moved the Zappos  corporate headquarters from Henderson to Downtown Las Vegas, moving it into the former Las Vegas City Hall after a $48mm project to improve the building. He wanted to bring a more laid-back and fun environment not just for his employees, but to spread out over the entire downtown.

The Vegas Container Park, which is just one part of the overall Downtown Project, was made from 43 repurposed used shipping containers and 41 “Xtreme Cubes“. It covers 19,000 square feet with 3-levels of shopping, eating and live music. The containers are laid out in a block-long pedestrian mall.

In stark contrast to the spread-out feel of the strip, Mr Hsieh  wants the downtown area “to be an area where everyone feels like they can hang out all the time and where there’s not a huge distinction between working and playing.”

In revitalizing most run-down urban areas, developers make use of broken down buildings and simply renovate them (think of SOMA in San Francisco). In this case there was the space, but Hsieh needed to find the building, quickly and without the costs normally associated with renovating and retrofitting old buildings to bring them to code. Which is why — with a little innovative thinking — he turned to shipping containers.

Upon entering the shipping container park, you’ll encounter a massive Preying Mantis sculpture where flames shoot out of its antennae (Hsieh acquired the sculpture from the burning Man festival). The Park features tenants that run the gamut from fashion stores like Winky Designs and Blue Raven Boutique, to good eats like Big Ern’s BBQ and Pinche’s Tacos, to Bin 702, a cool wine bar. You’ll even find a hip candy store and a place called JoJo Jerky, which may be the only store in the world that sells only beef jerky. There’s even a stage for live events where you’ll find more hipsters than strippers. For kids, there’s a huge tree-house playground slide, and to stay with the theme, there’s a 3-story elevator that has been made from used shipping containers. For corporate events, you could do worse than the covered party space, The Immersion Dome. You’ll also find art galleries and shops for home decor.

If Downtown Las Vegas isn’t on your itinerary when you visit Vegas, it should be now!

Has this article motivated you to perhaps be the next Tony Hsieh and create your own shipping container destination space? Or perhaps a smaller version of what you see here in Vegas? Sourcing containers from sellers worldwide just got a whole lot easier. The Shipped.com Marketplace connects buyers and sellers from all over the world, enabling you to get the lowest price possible along with the fastest delivery time. You can signup in seconds and within minutes sellers worldwide will be sending you their very best offers on exactly what you’re looking for. You’ll have your choice of the highest quality shipping containers at the lowest possible prices. Visit the shipped.com marketplace and submit your container request now.

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Downtown Las Vegas Shipping Container Park

Downtown Las Vegas Shipping Container Park

Downtown Las Vegas Shipping Container Park

Downtown Las Vegas Shipping Container Park

Downtown Las Vegas Shipping Container Park

Downtown Las Vegas Shipping Container Park

Downtown Las Vegas Shipping Container Park

Downtown Las Vegas Shipping Container Park

Downtown Las Vegas Shipping Container Park

Downtown Las Vegas Shipping Container Park

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