strip mall
noun
: a long usually one-story building or group of buildings housing several adjacent retail stores or service establishments
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Meanwhile, despite its unique riverfront, the heart of West Sacramento is akin to the sprawling commercial district of a suburb, packed with fast-food places, wide roadways and a successive run of strip malls.
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Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2024
In the Boston area, converting just 10% of strip malls would be enough to absorb all the population growth in the region for the next decade, according to a 2021 study from Massachusetts’ Metropolitan Area Planning Council.
—Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2024
Roaches running in various places, bugs in pasta and rodents with an affinity for flour brought an inspector’s wrath down on a West Miami-Dade strip mall supermarket.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2024
Ishizaki’s first restaurant opened last June in the Carmichael strip mall space formerly home to Shige Sushi, long synonymous with Sacramento sushi elder Shige Tokita.
—Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 1 Apr. 2024
And for all their monotony, strip malls often have some unexpected gems.
—Jennifer Medina, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
Police eventually found the victim’s car in a Rowland Heights strip mall parking lot.
—City News Service, Orange County Register, 31 Jan. 2024
That includes not just large malls but downtown shopping centers and smaller hubs like strip malls.
—Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2024
One of my favorite icebreakers is to ask people to build the strip mall of their dreams using five chain establishments—and people get very passionate in their responses.
—Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2024
In the Boston area, converting just 10% of strip malls would be enough to absorb all the population growth in the region for the next decade, according to a 2021 study from Massachusetts’ Metropolitan Area Planning Council.
—Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2024
Roaches running in various places, bugs in pasta and rodents with an affinity for flour brought an inspector’s wrath down on a West Miami-Dade strip mall supermarket.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2024
Ishizaki’s first restaurant opened last June in the Carmichael strip mall space formerly home to Shige Sushi, long synonymous with Sacramento sushi elder Shige Tokita.
—Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 1 Apr. 2024
And for all their monotony, strip malls often have some unexpected gems.
—Jennifer Medina, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
Police eventually found the victim’s car in a Rowland Heights strip mall parking lot.
—City News Service, Orange County Register, 31 Jan. 2024
That includes not just large malls but downtown shopping centers and smaller hubs like strip malls.
—Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2024
One of my favorite icebreakers is to ask people to build the strip mall of their dreams using five chain establishments—and people get very passionate in their responses.
—Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
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“Strip mall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strip%20mall. Accessed 2 May. 2024.
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