McGill Company, Inc CEO aims to create housing, jobs, education with used shipping containers on the Gulf Coast
Demetris English, CEO & President of McGill Company Inc a Minnesota corporation., talks Friday about bringing shipping container homes to the Gulf Coast as early as next year. NEW ORLEANS — CEO & President of McGill Company, Inc (MCI) sees a growing number of developers looking to create new housing on the city’s many vacant lots, but he sees his mission as especially unique, and not only because it plans to build homes from recycled steel shipping containers. In addition to creating newly built housing for people with low incomes, Demetris English wants to educate and employ them. At the same time, English says the group wants to borrow a proven concept from Habitat for Humanity, the nonprofit housing provider that raises revenue to build homes by selling items at its ReStores. MCI hopes to generate money for its three-pronged mission by building homes and accessory dwellings from containers that can be placed anywhere. While they will be some what n...
