The restaurant opened a new location inside of a shipping container. Something so unique, that only a few restaurants have done something remotely similar across the country.

They say history repeats itself, with trends coming and going and coming again in fashion, food, politics, pop culture, and even restaurant design. That seems to be the case with shipping-container ...

La Ola on Fort Myers Beach will begin moving the shipping containers they use for their restaurant onto trailers on Tuesday.

And according to owner Jeff Church, it's the first full-service restaurant in the U.S. made from repurposed shipping containers.

The small salad and wing shop is housed in a pair of converted shipping containers, the big steel boxes used to carry cargo aboard ocean freighters and trains.

Shipping containers aren’t something you normally see on a beach, but alongside Pere Marquette Park in Muskegon, they’re being used to expand a beachfront restaurant called The Deck.

Shipping container projects are also suddenly hot, and among such developments in Detroit are a restaurant in Campus Martius, condos in Corktown, a three-level mixed-use space in Corktown, and more.