strip mall

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“Backrooms,” the No. 1 movie in the country currently, is a horror movie that takes place in a seemingly endless liminal space that articulates itself as generic strip mall or office spaces.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026

Around the crack of dawn, a line begins forming at a strip mall in Hyattsville, Maryland, as residents ranging from students to delivery workers and federal contractors wait to sign up for food assistance.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

In 1978, at age 40, Simons founded Renaissance Technologies in a strip mall on Long Island.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025

In the style of traditional family photos, Gyopo’s board of directors and community members gathered one recent weekend morning in the parking lot of their historic Koreatown strip mall headquarters.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025

Andy and Shin are about the same age and they often ate lunch together at Los Chilaquiles, a cheap Mexican joint in a strip mall not far from LiNK’s office in a Torrance industrial park.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden