Minimalls

As usual, there were several buildings afire down in the ramshackle sprawl of abandoned condos and minimalls. ❋ H-M Brown (2010)

The Lerners are a clan of real estate tycoons building the grandest minimalls in the D.C. area. ❋ Dave Zirin (2010)

“Laser centers” and medspas are set up in minimalls right next to banks and Starbucks. ❋ Ellen Marmur (2009)

I enjoy a delicious feeling of unreality as I cruise the deserted highway through gray-dead suburbia, past minimalls with their windows covered in plywood and homes where no lights are glowing. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Fun feeds the horizontal expansion of minimalls and endless fast food franchises. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I've been writing stories about online shopping for the past three years, and every year our coverage gets bigger and broader, just because there are so many more e-tailers out there, and there are so many more of these shopping comparison sites, which I wrote about this year, which are like minimalls in themselves. ❋ Unknown (2003)

L.A., from the girls on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard to the minimalls, the trailer parks and the beach with surfers in the mist. ❋ By BROOKE HODGE (2011)

Whatever you call them-minimalls, strip malls, shopping centers-these places contain some of the best Asian dining in Silicon Valley.

Enticed by a VERY enthusiastic dancing ice cream come, we sought respite from the heat in an indoor mall — not like a big-bucks-anchor-store mall, but one of those minimalls where you’d find booths of Antique dealers. ❋ Princessalethea (2010)

It probably shouldn’t surprise us that the midwives of the area’s minimalls were more comfortable in the ’burbs. ❋ Dave Zirin (2010)

It’s a pilgrimage through the neighborhood’s past to its present, all of its old parts linked up today by the modern connective tissue of concrete minimalls and the heavy car traffic filtering through its four-and six-lane streets. ❋ Bonnie Tsui (2009)