A new shopping center has opened beneath the Green Line L stop at 51st Street in Bronzeville, but this is not a typical mall. Boxville is made entirely of shipping containers. The mall includes Produce Box, a produce stand from the Lincoln Park farmers market Green City Market. It marks the first South Side outpost for the market and adding more healthy options for the neighborhood. "There aren't many places to buy fresh products directly from farmers like in other neighborhoods, and Boxville provides a great setting,” Alderman Pat Dowell told the Chicago Tribune. 

The mall also includes French fry stand Friistyle, bicycle repair shop Bike Box, and local retailers 8ty4 Vintage and Snkr Fiend.

The mall project was led by Urban Juncture, a community development group. The mall is inspired by similar concepts in Toronto and Las Vegas.

The shops are housed in 20-foot steel shipping containers. The Bike Box will be housed in one container, while the Produce Box and Friistyle will share a second box. The three retail shops will share two additional shipping containers.

The mall is only open on Wednesdays for the time being, but this could change as the mall grows. Urban Juncture is hoping to bring more food vendors onboard. Additionally, a plaza between all of the shipping containers is in the works.