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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What to know about The Changebaker Place The new space, housed in a former hair salon in the same shopping center as Manolo’s, will be an extension of the bakery.
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Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 7 Jan. 2026
The Village at Pacific Highlands Ranch shopping center.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Officers found the car unoccupied on Nave Court, a residential street near the shopping center, and determined it had been stolen last week.
—Cameron MacDonald, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
For Clotheshorse Anonymous in the Preston Forest Village shopping center in North Dallas, this means adapting in real time.
—Mari Sato, Dallas Morning News, 4 Jan. 2026
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Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 7 Jan. 2026
The Village at Pacific Highlands Ranch shopping center.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Officers found the car unoccupied on Nave Court, a residential street near the shopping center, and determined it had been stolen last week.
—Cameron MacDonald, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
For Clotheshorse Anonymous in the Preston Forest Village shopping center in North Dallas, this means adapting in real time.
—Mari Sato, Dallas Morning News, 4 Jan. 2026
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“Shopping center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20center. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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