Cheap shortcuts. That’s how the uninitiated tends to sum up the concept of prefabricated buildings. One shape fits all, and you can have it any footprint configuration you want, as long as it’s a box. Okay, it might be true of some prefab steel buildings—but in...
If you’re going to open a successful auto shop, you need open space both on the floor and above. It means you either have to find a building already constructed that way—or you have to build one yourself. The former takes luck and patience. The latter is easy to do,...
3,825. That’s the number of craft breweries that went into operation from 2006 to 2016. Today, there are over 5,230 of them in the United States. Together, they generate more than $23 billion. These breweries are small, but combined, they employ over 129,000 people....
Practically everybody knows that Florida’s nickname is the Sunshine State – but not all that many people can give you the actual figures to back up the claim. It turns out that Florida has 300 days of sunshine per year on average. So, it might be less of a...
There are plenty of reasons why people love to live in Oregon, but there are 2 reasons we find the most interesting. Is it because Clint Eastwood used to live there? No. Is it because Oregon is the home of the largest cheese factory in the world? No. One reason has to...
