shopping center
noun
: a group of retail stores and service establishments usually with ample parking facilities and usually designed to serve a community or neighborhood
called also shopping plaza
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Hits on civilian targets, shopping centers, residential areas.
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Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 21 June 2024
Some of them included transportation upgrades, a walking path that will provide a connection to a commercial shopping center and a bridge over Four Mile Creek with access to its greenway system.
Concerns over bald eagles, traffic
The project has been controversial for a few years now.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 17 June 2024
The Galleria, an expansive shopping center with more than 400 stores and restaurants, an ice rink, two swimming pools, and a children’s play area, is five miles from the hotel.
—Pat Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2024
Officers responded about 11:45 p.m. to a reported shooting in a shopping center parking lot in the 7000 block of Berry Road, police said.
—Dan Morse, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
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Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 21 June 2024
Some of them included transportation upgrades, a walking path that will provide a connection to a commercial shopping center and a bridge over Four Mile Creek with access to its greenway system.
Concerns over bald eagles, traffic
The project has been controversial for a few years now.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 17 June 2024
The Galleria, an expansive shopping center with more than 400 stores and restaurants, an ice rink, two swimming pools, and a children’s play area, is five miles from the hotel.
—Pat Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2024
Officers responded about 11:45 p.m. to a reported shooting in a shopping center parking lot in the 7000 block of Berry Road, police said.
—Dan Morse, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
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“Shopping center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20center. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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