blockfront

noun

1

: a front (as of a chest of drawers or a desk) characterized by a sunken center panel flanked on either side by a raised panel

2

: the frontage of a block : one side (such as the main side) of a block with a portion of land abutting especially when considered as the site of a single building

the structure is going on the north blockfront of the street

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