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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At least five businesses have been damaged by a fire at a strip mall in Garden City, Michigan, police said on Sunday evening.
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Nick Lentz, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
In Doral, a suburb just west of Miami where nearly 40 percent of residents trace their roots to Venezuela, a bust of Simón Bolívar sits mostly unnoticed beside a strip mall parking lot, one block from the popular café El Arepazo.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
Like Garcia, Rebollido based part of his scam out of a strip mall.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 30 Nov. 2025
For 37 Thanksgivings, local restaurant owner Frank Garcia has fed thousands of families with a food drive that started in 1984 in the parking lot of the resort-area strip mall where his restaurant, La Casa Garcia, is located.
—Victoria Le, Oc Register, 27 Nov. 2025
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Nick Lentz, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
In Doral, a suburb just west of Miami where nearly 40 percent of residents trace their roots to Venezuela, a bust of Simón Bolívar sits mostly unnoticed beside a strip mall parking lot, one block from the popular café El Arepazo.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
Like Garcia, Rebollido based part of his scam out of a strip mall.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 30 Nov. 2025
For 37 Thanksgivings, local restaurant owner Frank Garcia has fed thousands of families with a food drive that started in 1984 in the parking lot of the resort-area strip mall where his restaurant, La Casa Garcia, is located.
—Victoria Le, Oc Register, 27 Nov. 2025
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“Strip mall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strip%20mall. Accessed 14 Dec. 2025.
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