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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The 20,000-square-foot store will replace PetSmart in the Renaissance Creek shopping center at the southwest corner of Douglas and Sierra College boulevards.
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Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Other stores in the shopping center, meanwhile, have already begun the process of relocating.
—Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Oct. 2025
About 20 minutes before a demonstration started in Walnut Creek, hundreds gathered in the East Bay city’s downtown shopping center.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
So Dimon asked Rick Caruso, a billionaire Los Angeles developer of high-end shopping centers, for advice on how to make the space lined with retail and eateries appear more professional, according to The Journal.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
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Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Other stores in the shopping center, meanwhile, have already begun the process of relocating.
—Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Oct. 2025
About 20 minutes before a demonstration started in Walnut Creek, hundreds gathered in the East Bay city’s downtown shopping center.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
So Dimon asked Rick Caruso, a billionaire Los Angeles developer of high-end shopping centers, for advice on how to make the space lined with retail and eateries appear more professional, according to The Journal.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for shopping center
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“Shopping center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20center. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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