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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Trey's Review Process Otey’s Tavern is tucked in an unsuspecting Birmingham strip mall.
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Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District crews arrived to heavy fire coming from the Watt Avenue side of the eatery, which sits at the end of a strip mall.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2025
After the last row of strip malls and subdivisions, the Everglades took over, in a vast, hot expanse of subtropical wetland.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Her shop is as much of an anchor for the strip mall as the Food Lion, and for greater Pineville, itself, which over the past three years has seen its Main Street bustle with new businesses.
—Shindy Chen, Charlotte Observer, 29 Sep. 2025
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Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District crews arrived to heavy fire coming from the Watt Avenue side of the eatery, which sits at the end of a strip mall.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2025
After the last row of strip malls and subdivisions, the Everglades took over, in a vast, hot expanse of subtropical wetland.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
Her shop is as much of an anchor for the strip mall as the Food Lion, and for greater Pineville, itself, which over the past three years has seen its Main Street bustle with new businesses.
—Shindy Chen, Charlotte Observer, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Strip mall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strip%20mall. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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