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Federal Realty bringing hydroponic shipping containers to a shopping center near you

If shipping containers can be reused as housing, why not retrofit them for farms, too? Rockville-based Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE: FRT) has struck up a partnership with a Boston-based company to bring farms contained in retrofitted shipping containers to select shopping centers across the United States. The partnership with Freight Farms, according to a release, "empowers anyone to use this technology while repurposing Federal Realty's unused parking spaces as a place to locally and...

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