| central business district (CBD) | the traditional downtown business area of a city or town.
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| demalling | the activity of revitalizing a mall by demolishing a mall's small shops, scrapping its common space and food courts, enlarging the sites once occupied by department stores, and adding more entrances into the parking lot.
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| destination store | a retail store in which the merchandise, selection, presentation, pricing, or other unique feature acts as a magnet for customers.
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| fashion/specialty center | A shopping center that is composed mainly of upscale apparel shops, boutiques, and gift shops carrying selected fashions or unique merchandise of high quality and price.
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| freestanding site | Fixtures and mannequins located on aisles that are designed primarily to get customers’ attention and bring them into a department.
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| gentrification | a process in which old buildings are torn down or are restored to create new offices, housing developments, and retailers.
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| inner city | Typically a high-density urban area consisting of apartment buildings populated primarily by ethnic groups: African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians.
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| kiosk | A small selling space offering a limited merchandise assortment.
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| lifestyle center | A shopping center with an outdoor traditional streetscape layout with sit-down restaurants and a conglomeration of specialty retailers.
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| Main Street | the central business district located in the traditional shopping area of smaller towns, or a secondary business district in a suburb or within a larger city.
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| mall | a shopping center with a pedestrian focus where customers park in outlying areas and walk to the stores.
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| mixed-use development (MXD) | development that combines several uses in one complex-for example, shopping center, office tower, hotel, residential complex, civic center, and convention center.
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| outlet centers | Typically features stores owned by retail chains or manufacturers that sell excess and out-of-season merchandise at reduced prices.
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| power center | Shopping center that is dominated by several large anchors, including discount stores (Target), off-price stores (Marshalls), warehouse clubs (Costco), or category specialists such as Home Depot, Office Depot, Circuit City, Sports Authority, Best Buy, and Toys “R” Us.
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| regional center | Shopping mall that provides general merchandise (a large percentage of which is apparel) and services in full depth and variety.
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| shopping center | A group of retail and ther commercial establishments that is planned, developed, owned, and managed as a single property.
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| shopping goods | Products for which consumers will spend time comparing alternatives.
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| strip mall | A shopping center that usually has parking directly in front of the stores and does not have enclosed walk-ways linking the stores.
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| superregional center | Shopping center that is similar to a regional center; but because of its larger size, it has more anchors and a deeper selection of merchandise, and it draws from a larger population base.
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| theme/festival centers | A shopping center that typically employs a unifying theme that is carried out by the individual shops in their architectural design and, to an extent, in their merchandise.
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| traditional strip center | A shopping center that is designed to provide convenience shopping for the day-to-day needs of consumers in their immediate neighborhood.
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