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More than two years after Charlotte-based Boxman Studios LLC started refurbishing shipping containers, CEO David Campbell isn't sure what to call the finished product. "A hospitality venue?" he ventures. But he knows what it takes to make them - "lots of torches, lots of welding and lots of loud noises" - and hopes whatever they're called will replace: canvas awnings, trailers, tents and other mobile means of sheltering vendors hawking trinkets, marketers showing off new products, wedding guests imbibing post-nuptial champagne and anyone else seeking temporary shelter.
Campbell, raised in Bedford, N.Y., came to the Queen City in 1995 to become a stockbroker for Interstate /Johnson Lane Corp., which he left after then-Winston-Salem-based Wachovia Corp. acquired the brokerage in 1998. He started Acer Development LLC to sell and develop commercial real estate but abandoned it during the recession. After Acer,...