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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But that temporary closure stretched into weeks, leaving an empty building on a prime corner in the city’s premier Broadway Plaza shopping center.
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
The city approved the construction of a big-box shopping center called The Pavilion on the property in 2008.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
The shooting in a small, idyllic waterfront community adds to the growing list of bars, restaurants, shopping centers, schools and other venues in the US generally thought of as safe that have experienced gun violence.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
The report indicates an overall softening of demand, which is leading to easing pressure on asking rents, including for shopping center space specifically.
—Kevin Williams, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
The city approved the construction of a big-box shopping center called The Pavilion on the property in 2008.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
The shooting in a small, idyllic waterfront community adds to the growing list of bars, restaurants, shopping centers, schools and other venues in the US generally thought of as safe that have experienced gun violence.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
The report indicates an overall softening of demand, which is leading to easing pressure on asking rents, including for shopping center space specifically.
—Kevin Williams, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
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“Shopping center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20center. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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