strip mall

plural strip malls

1. CanadaUSA shopping center consisting of a row of stores with separate entrances from the outdoors, typically along a road and/or with a parking lot in front.

   2 more examples

   April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightvillehttps://web.archive.org/web/20120427104854/http://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/ Fightville resembles a real-life Foot Fist Way, in that much of the action takes place within the cinder-block walls of a strip-mall gym, this one located next to a Piggly Wiggly in Lafayette, Louisiana.

   The karate school where she took tai chi was in a strip mall near the Three Rivers depot. There's a convenience store, a bike shop, Happy Joy Chinese, and Caputo's Martial Arts. I got out, walked to the door, opened it a crack. Twenty or so little kids in karate suits stood with their hands clasped as if in prayer. "Bow to the master, bow to the flag," the instructor said.

   2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.9-10