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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Like the five-county Central Texas region as a whole, the Bastrop area continues to add people, residential and commercial development, from new housing subdivisions, apartment complexes and restaurants to big-box stores, shopping centers, entertainment options and more.
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Shonda Novak, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Officers later spotted him at a nearby Walmart in the Empire Center shopping center on Victory Place.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 30 July 2025
Yummy Hot Chicken is set to fill a 1,224-square-foot space near the Raley’s supermarket inside the shopping center on Douglas Boulevard and Auburn Folsom Road.
—Kat Tran, Sacbee.com, 29 July 2025
Aguila, his wife and son were at the shopping center when the man showed up, the report read.
—Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 26 July 2025
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Shonda Novak, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Officers later spotted him at a nearby Walmart in the Empire Center shopping center on Victory Place.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 30 July 2025
Yummy Hot Chicken is set to fill a 1,224-square-foot space near the Raley’s supermarket inside the shopping center on Douglas Boulevard and Auburn Folsom Road.
—Kat Tran, Sacbee.com, 29 July 2025
Aguila, his wife and son were at the shopping center when the man showed up, the report read.
—Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 26 July 2025
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“Shopping center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20center. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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