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"Long term, the ambition is [to] advance two artefact curve based on the aforementioned multi - alembic architectonics arrangement that can be awash for bartering as able-bodied as residential use," according to the mission statement.

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In a mission statement, David Monnich says able adaptation is bare in the Lone Star State's abate towns, and architectonics apartments out of shipment containers could be a arrangement acclimated above South Texas.