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shopping plaza
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a concentration of stores, usually in or near a suburban residential district, where there is adequate room for parking, spacious walks, etc.; shopping centre.
Quotations
1957
The break-ins were compared with the noisy June 3 "tow-truck" robbery at another grocery store in the shopping plaza.
1960
Elliot Lake residential zones are two miles from the shopping plazas. . . .
1966
The Kingston Planning Board Thursday approved . . . construction of a nine-store shopping plaza. . . .