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Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 | 2 a.m.
In a 63,000-square-foot building mostly overlooked by commuters who pass it every day on the Spaghetti Bowl’s flyover, a small manufacturer is growing larger with the help of business coming from the East Fremont Container Park. Xtreme Manufacturing, the brainchild of Don Ahern, who also owns Ahern Rentals, employs nearly 100 welders, carpenters and others to create spacious “cubes.” The structures they make typically are constructed for mining, oil and gas extraction sites, but the Downtown Project came up with plans to turn them into taverns and retail outlets downtown in the coming Container Park at Seventh and Fremont streets. ...
Joe Schoenmann doesn’t just cover downtown; he lives and works there. Schoenmann is Greenspun Media Group’s embedded downtown journalist, working from an office in the Emergency Arts building.
This is good because now their "Cubes" will be to spec and it puts many to work building them.
Down side is they are not recycling old containers as planned.
I think this is going to be an interesting project and hope it is a great success. Something different for that area.
I thought Ahern went BK? Old containers might have toxics and radiation. A recycled wood structure makes more sense.