Big box: Next to Sam McNulty's new Nano Brew on Bridge Avenue and West 25th Street stands one of the biggest testaments to recycling you'll ever see. The "Bike Box" is a large, sky blue, covered bicycle parking garage that takes up one street parking space and accommodates 30 bikes.
It used to be a shipping container, the kind you'd see on a train rolling through Cleveland or on a freighter.
"It's the only instance in country and probably the world that a shipping container has been re-purposed into a bike corral," said McNulty. "It's like it was made for that parking space."
The shipping container idea came fromGreg Peckham at LandStudio, a Cleveland nonprofit devoted to parks and public art. Rust Belt Welding made the conversion from shipping container to bike corral.
"Like so many great ideas, this started over beers," said McNulty, who also envisions a "parklet" next to the Bike Box, a small urban oasis with grass and plants.
He and Jacob Van Sickle of Bike Cleveland rode their bikes to City Hall to pitch the idea of taking a parking spot off the books for cars and using it for bikes.
"Never in a million years did I think they would consider it," he said. "I think this is an indication that it's a new day at City Hall."

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