shopsteader

plural shopsteaders

1. An entrepreneur who buys and renovates an abandoned shop as part of a shopsteading program.

   Shortly after settlement, the shopsteaders must begin improving the property.

   2010, Edward J. Blakely, Nancey Green Leigh, Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice, →ISBN

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   But Joseph Fuccl, a shopsteader who put $30,000 into a new pizza parlor, has no regrets.

   1979 November 30, The Cincinnati Enquirer, page 82

   Cut—and—cover construction will not extend to the area in front of the shopsteaders' businesses.

   1987, Baltimore Northeast Corridor Alternative Transit Improvements