: used or suitable for several different functions
a mixed-use building

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Riverside is a real estate development and investment firm whose projects include high-profile downtown residential towers, suburban mixed-use developments and office buildings. Shonda Novak, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025 The Doctors' Building Address: 19 Garfield Place What this historic building will become: Kentucky's Ashley Builders Group will reimagine the eight-story Doctors' Building into a mixed-use development with 52 units of housing and office space for $12.9 million. Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 30 July 2025 Atlanta — Over the past two decades, this city has reimagined its industrial past by transforming former railway corridors into the Beltline — a 22-mile loop of mixed-use trails now woven into the fabric of city life. Morgan Severson, CNN Money, 30 July 2025 Bally’s would need city approval to change the potential casino site’s zoning from parkland to mixed-use development. Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 30 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for mixed-use

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First Known Use

1972, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of mixed-use was in 1972

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“Mixed-use.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mixed-use. Accessed 8 Aug. 2025.

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