Arturo Yanez quoted in Los Angeles Magazine’s March Issue

Mar 2016 Arturo Yanez quoted in Los Angeles Magazine’s March Issue

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http://www.lamag.com/digestblog/food-court-long-beach-shipping-containers/

A bespoke eatery styled as a ‘shipping container’ only because city permitting wouldn’t allow it to be actually housed in one, gives new meaning to, ‘if you build it, they will come’. Wax Paper is a sandwich shop/café housed in all of 226 sq feet of space and open for barely half a day, but attracts traffic and brings community together at the BLOX campus in remarkable ways. As Arturo states in the article, “The form allows for creating a walkable streetscape…”. We now know that the proof is definitely in the pudding!