shopping precinct

noun

1. a pedestrian area containing shops, restaurants, etc, forming a single architectural unit and usually providing car-parking facilities

Example Sentences

"The city centre is dead, it's like a shopping precinct graveyard," he said "It's depressing if you've grown up in Glasgow."

From BBC

The redevelopment scheme would replace a "tired 1980s" shopping precinct which, once the shops shut, became a "dangerous and unhappy place" with a modern area which could be enjoyed all year round, he said.

From BBC

Ashley McGurk, 32, was assaulted while walking near Harpurhey shopping precinct in Manchester on 24 December 2011.

From BBC

On Kingstanding Circle almost every unit in the local shopping precinct is now boarded up and Farmfoods is moving out later this year.

From BBC

In Johannesburg, thousands more have turned out to enjoy the light displays that have filled the upmarket Melrose Arch shopping precinct with flashing reindeer, glittering giant teddy bears and glowing Christmas trees.

From Reuters