Strip malls are ideal for returning purchased items, he said.
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The surrounding suburban strip malls offered little for sale but boredom.
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I learned to recognize Herbalife clubs in the little strip malls.
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Yorktown Heights's commercial center bustles with small businesses and strip malls.
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OUTSIDE the white fence is all strip malls, motels and resort villages.
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It is all office parks, strip malls, single-family homes and highways.
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There are no fast food restaurants, strip malls or big-box stores.
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What is not collapsing is sprouting strip malls, tanning salons, another gym.
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Don't be thrown off by how many decent places exist in strip malls.
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Mills have closed, while strip malls fill with dollar stores and payday lenders.
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Competing grocers, and the strip malls they occupy, could see just the opposite.
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The land of the Seminoles was turned to carnival lots, supermarkets, strip malls.
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Strip malls with chains like Target and T.J. Maxx line the commercial Route 17813.
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The winds of change are blowing through food courts and strip malls across America.
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Candler Hospital is on a busy highway, surrounded by strip malls and residential streets.
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Millions of Americans are subsisting on retail work in strip malls and shopping centers.
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Boutique fitness studios and day spas are now in strip malls around the country.
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Knock-off souvenir shops, strip malls, and motels decorated like castles line the wide highways.
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But Popov couldn't adjust to life in a suburban swelter of freeways and strip malls.
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Lyrically, the themes of sprawl and strip malls plague the album from its powerful blastoff.
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Mountain View is a suburban community replete with detached single-family homes and strip malls.
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A lot of really good places are popping up more and more in strip malls.
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Officers were dispatched to a busy intersection populated by a chain pharmacy and strip malls.
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Like many Southern California towns, one of the defining features is the sprawling strip malls.
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The landscaping neatly conceals Cupertino's nearby suburban clutter of strip malls and cookie-cutter apartment homes.
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Strip malls and freeways sprawl so endlessly that it is hard even to locate a city.
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Without it, more wetlands and beachfront property would likely be developed into strip malls and condos.
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The locations seem just right, from the blankly affectless strip malls to the temporary-feeling apartments.
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Then I headed to Conestoga High School, past quaint and quiet downtowns and busy strip malls.
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"I was surrounded by a lot of parking lots, strip malls, and churches," he told me.
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Dotted with strip malls, small businesses and professional and government offices, it is hardly pedestrian-friendly.
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When the shops and strip malls close, the 24-hour Walmart becomes the center of nightlife.
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"We live in the valley, where it's concrete and strip malls and hotels and supermarkets," Okrepkie said.
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Celebration is cute and orderly; the surrounding areas are covered in strip malls and fast-food chains.
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It's like a series of enclave neighborhoods separated by freeways and big cabbage fields and strip malls.
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In Livingston, Mr. Kushner has divested from the Westminster Hotel, a three-story property overlooking strip malls.
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A number of staffing company offices — discreet, sometimes with mirrored glass windows — are tucked into strip malls.
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It's a place of pleasant, if often treeless, subdivisions and large strip malls, with no central downtown.
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Davao City is a featureless provincial capital of low buildings, strip malls, humble eateries and fruit stands.
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Many of those dollars were spent at strip malls, sometimes known as power centers in the trade.
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So mostly they walked, and mostly to the Waffle House a few worn-out strip malls away.
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Old Navy, as well as TJX, Ross (ROST) and Burlington (BURL), are mostly located in strip malls.
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They also led to unforeseen harm, from strip malls and urban sprawl to road rage and climate change.
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There's a mix of apartment complexes, some modest homes, big churches and big box stores in strip malls.
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Los Angeles is known for many things: tacos, strip malls, beaches, and movie stars, to name a few.
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Ladies with blue hair go down to strip malls and get injections of HGH on a daily basis.
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There are several active boarding and training stables, but no supermarkets, bars, theaters, chain stores or strip malls.
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Zipping past the waffle houses and strip malls along the Interstate, he is seized by a mounting excitement.
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Residents brag about the absence of drive-throughs and strip malls that are fixtures elsewhere in New Jersey.
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The project, which he started in 2015, began after he observed the soullessness of Arizona's abandoned strip malls.
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Suburban strip malls and Beaux-Arts buildings have been reimagined as storefronts selling pre-rolled joints and edibles.
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A college campus: Abandoned strip malls in east Austin have been transformed into satellite campuses for Austin Community College.
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But high streets in towns and cities, malls and larger strip malls, where chain stores proliferate, are under pressure.
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They work in some 9,000 massage parlors found along highways and behind storefronts in strip malls across the country.
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The drive to the clinic had taken me past leafy neighborhoods dotted with quaint homes, churches, and strip malls.
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With all these vacant strip malls we have around America, let's build some homes for them, permanent homes, not shelters.
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Strip malls have signs in Arabic next to those in English, advertising hair salons, Middle Eastern groceries, and halal butchers.
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Without its national parks, "America The Beautiful" might be a song about polluted skies, dirty strip malls, and gated playgrounds.
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"You are not going to see too many shopping centers around here," he said as we passed dilapidated strip malls.
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First, Cramer turned to Kohl's, a discount retailer with more locations in strip malls and outlet centers than traditional malls.
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But the millions of people and freeways and traffic and strip malls and all that — I'm just so over it.
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Cannabis-prescribing doctors set up shop in strip malls and record stores, or consulted with patients over brief video chats.
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Whatever the reason, strip malls offer an escape through their sheer cheesiness, ugliness, unhealthy food, surface parking and drop ceilings.
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You have to drive into it, or poke around in strip malls and neighborhoods until you find the thing you need.
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Patti Cake$, an aspiring rapper fighting through a world of strip malls and strip clubs on an unlikely quest for glory.
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There is a museum on Hollywood Boulevard, tucked between sun-bleached strip malls and shiny car dealerships, that curates morbid things.
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The whole town is basically a series of strip malls—living there consists of driving between them at a low speed.
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Francisco's sentiments were rare among his neighbors in Doral, a small city of strip malls and golf courses west of Miami.
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An article last Sunday about restaurants in Los Angeles strip malls misidentified the street in Hollywood where two neighboring restaurants are.
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Some we met at their lawyers' office, some in coffee shops at strip malls in the Indiana suburbs where many lived.
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Consumers have increasingly favored buying products online or at strip malls where it is easier to quickly enter, shop and then leave.
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As of late, T.G.I. Friday's — that American stalwart of strip malls and airports — has a surprisingly modern engine behind it: artificial intelligence.
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The parking lot where the security guard found Little is lined by strip malls, but many of the nearby homes stand vacant.
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R: The chain may be half-dead, but RadioShack's circled red "R" still conjures images of strip malls in many people's minds.
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It's lined with two-story homes, copacetic strip malls, and roadways so smooth, you might forget that you're actually driving — not floating.
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But now, as the roads have turn to rivers, and bayous bleed into strip malls, rescue boats are a desperately needed commodity.
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Parsippany's retail businesses, including a Target, a Home Depot and a movie theater, mostly cluster in strip malls along busy Route 46.
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Living In 9 Photos View Slide Show ' Tired of strip malls and traffic, Robert Dietrich, 70, wanted something different for his retirement.
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The future of transportation is here, and it's driving the wrong way past row after row of soulless terra cotta strip malls.
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He felt this was unfair: In previous decades, many neighbors had turned their forests and mangrove swamps into strip malls and condos.
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What was sugar plantations is now oil refineries, chemical production, big box stores, gated communities, strip malls, trailer parks, a whole hodgepodge.
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Nine out of 10 Kohl's stores are in suburban strip malls and other areas away from enclosed shopping malls, the company says.
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Living in the shadow of its luxurious counterpart, Miami, it consists almost exclusively of strip malls, townhouses, chain restaurants, and beachside crab restaurants.
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Urban sprawl The rapid growth of strip malls and housing developments has turned Houston -- and many other areas of America -- into concrete jungles.
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Ogden used the EB-5 investor program to attract funding for smoothie and frozen yogurt franchises intended to be opened in strip malls.
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More to do nearby: All the best places on Buford Highway are tucked into unassuming strip malls, and Pho 24 is no different.
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At strip malls, "it's easy to park, you go in, you pick whatever you want, and you get out of there," Anderson said.
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Struggling malls, in an effort to fill vacant spaces, are wooing businesses that now occupy larger strip malls, such as grocery chains and discounters.
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Since 2000 the construction of strip malls has increased even as the population has declined in several rustbelt cities, including Cleveland, Detroit and Pittsburgh.
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From that moment on, the cheap and cheerful California roll was destined for ubiquity in strip malls and gas station fridges across North America.
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That only includes wind damage to people's homes, not to structures like strip malls and office buildings, nor flooding losses from a storm surge.
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Star (Sasha Lane), first seen Dumpster diving with her two younger siblings, inhabits a sad prairie landscape of big-box stores and strip malls.
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"I've never experienced that until just recently," he says, while driving through a stretch of the county studded with strip malls, just outside Washington.
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Today the town looks like many others in the region, with abundant churches, pickups and strip malls and the occasional fluttering Confederate battle flag.
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Strip malls have businesses like Convenience Store Osaka, Gangnam Korean Restaurant and many gun ranges for visitors from countries where firearms are tightly restricted.
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The beloved store, which lined strip malls across the country, became known for its huge assortment of products spanning every color and style imaginable.
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Walmart's expanse of asphalt, dotted with worn-out pickups and domestic sedans, gave way to a road lined with strip malls and dollar stores.
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The transactions focus on strip malls, whose food and services are considered less vulnerable to competition from e-commerce than general merchandise stores in malls.
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But meanwhile, over at one of the many humble strip malls of Park City, there was a separate Other People screening happening for the press.
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Wind gusts up to 70 mph pushed walls of flames nearly 100 feet high, throwing embers ahead like hot fingers into strip malls and subdivisions.
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Rural communities may feel a world apart from urban centers and suburban strip malls, but in reality they're much closer, and so are their problems.
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He ended up in Fajardo, a scruffy town of strip malls on Puerto Rico's northeastern tip, where a line of 27 waited outside a Walmart.
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Past the city limits and into Nassau County it is now the suburbs, with neat, single-family houses and large chain stores and strip malls.
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Turing could no more have predicted Instagram celebrities and high-frequency trading than Karl Benz, an automotive pioneer, could have predicted suburbs and strip malls.
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Northeast Philadelphia — an expansive region with strip malls and lawns that New Yorkers might recognize as a relative of Staten Island — is Pearl Huynh's territory.
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Like many sprawling cities of central California, it features suburban-style neighborhoods and strip malls slowly eating the huge expanses of agriculture that surround it.
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The two venture out into the Texas chaparral, strip malls fading into the distance, the landscape seeming to ask: What do you expect to happen?
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As U.S. 23 leads away from Columbus, business parks and strip malls give way to lush stretches of farmland dotted with old farmhouses and rusted silos.
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Under new management since 2011, Cedar has been shifting out of non-core retail assets such as shopping malls to focus on grocery anchored strip malls.
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Under new management since 2011, Cedar has been shifting out of non-core retail assets such as shopping malls to focus on grocery-anchored strip malls.
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Living in limbo Ostadhassan and his family live in a small apartment near the outskirts of Grand Forks, where the strip malls meet the soybean fields.
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A dozen miles west of Miami, the strip malls peter out and give way to expansive meadows of sawgrass, marking the edge of Everglades National Park.
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The once-supreme rental chain was a staple in American strip malls and shopping centers, encapsulating a labyrinth of at least 7,000 movies in each store.
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As Isaiah passes inland, the iridescent, gray-brown flood rises, carrying jet fuel, sour crude and natural gas liquids into strip malls, parks, schools and offices.
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I miss my dad, but the cemetery, nestled alongside the highways and strip malls of suburban South Jersey, fails to evoke him in any meaningful way.
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They would also like to open branches of Mr. Kapoor's fast-casual chain, the Yellow Chilli Express, in the Los Angeles airport and local strip malls.
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And yes, Virginia, there are swingers clubs in Las Vegas, many of which are gently blended into strip malls like the delicate flower establishments they are.
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The pursuit of the predator in settings like strip malls, residential streets and parks is igniting a debate over the benefits and dangers of urban hunting.
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In this community of modest homes and nondescript strip malls, Gardendale High, with its Grecian pillars and soaring, windowed foyer, spoke to the community's grander aspirations.
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She signed the apartment lease and is the cover for the family who lives here, in a suburban California middle-class neighborhood, dotted with strip malls.
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There is no downtown and most commerce is in strip malls along River Road, which runs north-south from one end of town to the other.
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The close-in Philadelphia suburb is overlaid with strip malls, and where an American-born population mixes with immigrant strivers from Asia and the Middle East.
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This is an unmagical kingdom, a zone of tawdriness and transience, of strip clubs and strip malls, knockoff souvenir shops and soft-serve ice cream shacks.
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Occasionally, if we're searching for something specific we'll do the mall, but normally we're going to strip malls and hole-in-the-wall kinds of places.
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Although a few of these riot locations still bear the scars of their past, most are seemingly ordinary today— empty parking lots, industrial buildings, hotels, strip malls.
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Whole swathes of Houston are charming at best, sprinkled with strip malls and churches and overgrown parking lots, but Montrose is beautiful in a classical, fantastical way.
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The ownership of strip malls and free-standing stores is fragmented, making it hard to work out who would be damaged as the decline of retailing quickens.
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It's a sprawling city with no downtown but rather strip malls that go on for blocks and neat rows of compact brick houses with American flags waving.
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And of course they played the food card—but is it effective if that passage includes the line, "You can find sushi in most exurb strip malls"?
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They had looked in nearby towns and in commercial strip malls, but were won over by the old machine shop, which also had room for a garden.
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But when you look a little closer, you notice that in one of those strip malls, all the business names carry the tonal accents of written Vietnamese.
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The summer after Hayes' SXSW talk, we meet at Monsanto's Chesterfield research complex, 11 miles from the company's main headquarters, in a suburb of strip malls and Starbucks.
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But by providing places for immigrants to get ahead, the cheap, ugly, car-oriented strip malls of suburban Florida are already doing what cities are supposed to do.
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Nine out of 10 Kohl's stores are in suburban strip malls rather than enclosed shopping malls, so declining foot traffic in malls hasn't affected the chain as strongly.
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If you press left, resources go to your people, developing stickers, strip-malls, and new "very special episodes" of ALF about drugs to keep them busy all day.
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Just south of downtown Miami—where I-95 ends and US1 begins, on a road of bleak strip malls and fast-food joints—sits an unassuming gas station.
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As the airplane began its descent, the city looked unchanged, its odd mix of high rises and strip malls still surrounded by emerald-green vegetation and turquoise waters.
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Democrats consider the 2nd District, home to sprawling housing subdivisions, strip malls and the Quantico Marine base, one of the party's best bets to pick up a seat.
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On the scrappier end of the spectrum are do-it-yourself artist spaces tucked into sunbaked strip malls, with their free-flowing beer and taco-fueled late-night ragers.
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Lalo stares out the window as we pass oil companies and strip malls on the outskirts of Irbil; everything from gaudy bridal gowns to lamb shawarma is for sale.
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Commercial development properties are cropping up and newly built strip malls line roads named after the Waltons such as Walton Boulevard, the main road that connects Bentonville to Rogers.
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It happens everywhere, in strip malls across America I live in Redondo Beach, where most people at town meetings are more concerned about beautifying the waterfront than anything else.
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Many families live on streets where every third or fourth house is boarded up, and in many strip malls, the only store open for business is the liquor store.
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Apple Valley is a town filled with hills of dusty golden rocks and strip malls in a remote region of Southern California, sandwiched between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
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Commerce is clustered along Pomerado Road, a four-lane thoroughfare lined with churches, schools and strip malls, as well as the Palomar Medical Center Poway, a 107-bed hospital.
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North Bay Journal NORTH BAY, Ontario — The tiny log house alongside the Trans-Canada Highway is easy to miss among the strip malls, fast-food outlets and car dealers.
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Rob Lally, who once owned strip malls and shopping centers but is now courting marijuana tenants with Commerce Real Estate, is converting a former tool factory in Leicester, Mass.
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Developers have taken notice years ago and pulled back from stamping new malls and strip malls out of the ground, which curtailed new supply of high-quality retail space.
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A large empty art space, one of those countless offices that political operations quickly erect in vacant strip malls and empty storefronts, then abandon the day after the election.
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The 403-acre farm site is now surrounded by strip malls, auto dealerships and suburban housing developments, and many residents feared that the farmland would become more of the same.
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The company has more flexibility with its real estate since its stores are typically situated in strip malls, or are stand-alone, instead of being at traditional, enclosed shopping malls.
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Many of the 88 cities in Los Angeles County have historical preservation ordinances, but their effectiveness varies, and much of the construction is proposed for open lots and strip malls.
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A fissure opens between Lyle and Shiloh as she becomes increasingly devout, quoting Scripture, periodically dropping to her knees in prayer and frequenting sketchy start-up churches in strip malls.
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Bread secured, they walked around the small shop, which is tucked into a stretch of strip malls on the North Shore of Staten Island, marveling at how little had changed.
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All those places have become magnets for immigrants and their children to settle, buy homes and open businesses in strip malls that often evoke architecture from Asia and Latin America.
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Pharmacies across the country — in major medical centers and in neighborhood strip malls — routinely toss out tons of scarce and potentially valuable prescription drugs when they hit their expiration dates.
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With so many fast-food chains positioned next to one another in food courts and strip malls and the like, it was only a matter of time the menus would blur.
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The company is based an hour's drive east of Los Angeles, in an area better known for its proliferation of chain restaurants and suburban strip malls than its innovative dining scene.
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My dad used to have a downtown office on Spadina and go to places like King's Noodle and Dragon City, but for the most part we ate at the strip malls.
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The strip malls are filled with esoteric businesses—a South Indian vegetarian restaurant run by Palestinians, a Vietnamese café, a Dominican hairdresser, even a British shop selling Boddingtons beer and scones.
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The building was a dingy, concrete high-rise—a bleak remnant of Le Corbusier's dream of a Ville Radieuse, with strip malls and blacktop where the parks were supposed to be.
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In the late 1980s, Byrne took aim at run-down hotels, casinos, strip malls, office space and apartment buildings across the country, which he invested in and developed for huge profits.
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It was only when she relocated to Los Angeles four years ago that the markers of her childhood — strip malls, senior citizens, an air of affluence — started to inspire to her.
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Buford Highway is a neighborhood in northeast Atlanta known for its diverse, vibrant mishmash of culture—especially when it comes to food—found throughout its many strip malls and shopping centers.
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Along the stretch of road leading up to it are a series of strip malls catering to Mexican shoppers, both those buying for the ant trade and those buying for themselves.
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Tucked away in strip malls and Filipino neighborhoods across the city, Filipino restaurants in LA have often been overlooked by non-Filipinos, and usually contain mostly, if not all, Filipinx patrons.
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Sunny Isles Beach is a quiet, luxurious part of South Florida with prime beach access and is close to strip malls, restaurants, grocery stores, and the nearby designer Bal Harbor Shoppes.
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Whether we're talking strip malls, mega-malls, or sprawling outdoor outlet shopping centers, the hallowed hallways of consumerism and commerce have a dark story tell and a very unlikely origin story.
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Though it has its fair share of cookie-cutter homes and strip malls, its well-preserved old downtown boasts a brewery and beer garden, a yoga studio and, now, a bootcamp boutique.
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Reichardt regularly shoots her films in this corner of the country, using the backdrop of Oregon's conifer forests, high deserts and shabby strip malls to portray lives led on society's outer rim.
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Analysts say that a primarily bricks-and-mortar toy retailer can succeed, but that its stores have to be smaller, unlike the hulking Toys "R" Us facilities that dot suburban strip malls.
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The rink, near the foot of the Outerbridge Crossing and several strip malls, has a full-service bar and plays a mix of hip-hop, disco and the occasional Bon Jovi classic.
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But strip malls, which have shops connected by a car park, often have a supermarket, so are less susceptible to e-commerce—most Americans still buy food in person, at least for now.
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I ended up writing a piece of music with the idea of it being a theme, and it's a very complex piece of music, talking about beige strip malls and substructure parking lots.
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In a lot of ways, the fact that it survived in strip malls rather than in big-box stores was the reason for its early success and a driving factor in its downfall.
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Yesterday & Today RecordsLocated in an area where strip malls and chain fast food joints are more common, if you are looking for collectable and reissued vinyl, Yesterday & Today probably has it in stock.
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Here's to restaurants hidden inside strip malls, driving 15 minutes beyond our comfort zones to get to them and Mr. Gold, who invited us to join him at his table whenever we arrived.
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Strange, the string of destruction and attention that has come recently to this normally quiet stretch of suburbia in Conejo Valley, with its landscaped streets and strip malls, manicured yards and swimming pools.
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There are no high-rise hotels, no strip malls filled with T-shirt and tchotchke shops, no barking beach vendors asking to braid your hair or sell you a drink in a coconut.
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It's no secret that the city's strip malls have long been strongholds for splendid, affordable, traditional ethnic restaurants, including some of my very favorites: Jitlada (Thai), Carousel (Armenian), Polka (Polish) and Yuca's (Mexican).
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But Patti Cake$' well-realized setting — a pocket of New Jersey defined by its boarded-up strip malls and pervasive apathy — and a stellar central performance give it a charm all its own.
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But they were ambitious, and their productivity has gotten them out of the strip malls and parking lots of their adolescence to crowdsurfing with fans who can rap all their songs back to them.
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And I, like the aspiring rapper at the heart of the movie Patti Cake$, am all too familiar with its shapes and contours, its strip malls and dive bars, its tree-lined suburban streets.
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Martz saw FlexBus as the key to transforming Altamonte, a loose agglomeration of palm tree-lined strip malls and culs-de-sac a few miles north of Orlando, into a thriving and walkable destination.
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It's kind of a different vibe in the Mojave where the dust blows over the rutted roads than in Scottsdale or Palm Springs where it's rich people golfing and eating steak at strip malls.
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Bechtolt: Yeah, one thing about moving to LA from a place like Portland is that you have to learn to appreciate strip malls and know that there are hidden gems in every strip mall.
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Sterling and its parent company, Signet, own the jewelry stores that dominate the malls and strip malls, with brands like Kay, Jared the Galleria of Jewelry, Osterman, J.B. Robinson, Zales and a dozen others.
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For 60 years, Mickey Mouse has been the raison d'être for the tourism scene in this sun-drenched Southern California town, home to Disneyland, family-friendly restaurants, affordable chain hotels and sprawling strip malls.
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Part of Baskets' appeal is its very specific feel, which combines Chip's fantasies of Parisian glamour and self-pitying cigarette breaks in his mother's coral-hued bathroom with Bakersfield's rickety rodeo and numerous strip malls.
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Insurance companies may also seek to determine if government bodies that neglected to make flooded office buildings or strip malls resilient to climate change, for instance, should be on the hook for payouts, said Patton.
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The chain, a fixture in malls and strip malls known for its shoes costing less than $30, is also considering shuttering at least one-third of its approximately 3,000 stores, one of the sources added.
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As the brothers head toward Oklahoma, the resigned ranchers and deserted strip malls they encounter speak to a vanishing way of life, their journey becoming a parable of corporate exploitation and bleed-them-dry greed.
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It's a place she loves—the landscaped strip malls, the schools named for Indian tribal lands, the way the four-lane roads divide rows of soybeans on one side from residential subdivisions on the other.
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"The Syrians are coming at a time that is very different than other immigrants before them," said Suresh Doss, a food journalist who focuses on the city's immigrant shops and restaurants in suburban strip malls.
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It's a multicultural but tribal stretch of strip malls and boxy housing where immigrant groups stick with their own or occasionally clash, and Mr. Chagai craved some kind of structure and connection when he arrived.
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The hamlet also has a couple of strip malls, including one just south of the train station that offers a supermarket, a T.J. Maxx, an Italian restaurant called Gino's of Kings Park, and Professor's Diner.
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Jeremiah and Kirk head off to buy Aimee a corsage (she'll later refer to it as her "croissant"), and that evening, the crew surprises Aimee with dinner at one of Panama City Beach's finest strip malls.
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Always a place friendly to florists and monument makers, and a bar called Molloy's that dates to 1883, Colma began attracting car dealerships and strip malls on its western edge, near Interstate 280, in the 1970s.
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He explained that the key to the device is TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation), those electronic nerve stimulators you've probably seen in strip malls that hook up to the body to treat neck or back pain.
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Fairies can see strip malls and high-rises, we can see fluorescent franchise joints, and Montreal is as full of them as most cities, but we can't describe those places, we can barely talk about them.
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With its cobblestone streets and 18th-century Danish-style architecture, the town seemed almost forgotten by time — especially when contrasted with the strip malls and beach resorts scattered across the rest of St. Croix's tropical landscape.
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We thought it fitting to start our crawl with the most popular Indo-Chinese dish, Manchurian chicken, which we found at Calcutta Chinese Food, a restaurant tucked in one of Oak Tree Road's countless strip malls.
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Throughout the Inland Empire, as this region of Southern California is known, the country's e-commerce culture has given rise to an eerie, increasingly anonymous landscape of strip malls and distribution warehouses for Amazon and other companies.
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Small strip malls—lines of stores united by a car park—have fared better, says Garrick Brown of Cushman & Wakefield, thanks to their mix of shops and restaurants as well as dry cleaners, dentists and other services.
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DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. — Inside a crumbling school building in a neighborhood dotted by pawn shops, fast-food restaurants and strip malls, a security guard is shouting into the girls' restroom to make sure there are no problems.
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A presidential candidate's job is to describe the actual America—the physical country, the strip malls and power lines and bridges—in such a way that it lines up, more or less, with enough voters' personal Americas.
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In the Rio Grande Valley, a dense sprawl in the southernmost part of Texas that's interspersed with citrus orchards, strip malls, and taco stands, more than 90 percent of the population identifies as Hispanic and/or Latino.
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Humans rarely give much thought to the creatures that flit or crawl or skitter about our apartment blocks and strip malls, in part because we tend to dismiss them as either ordinary or less than fully wild.
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Aside from chain retailers (Kohl's and Barnes & Noble among them) on Route 46, most commerce is in strip malls and houses along McBride Avenue, which follows the bends of the Passaic River and runs underneath Interstate 80.
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Typically, about a third of the company's locations are in shopping malls, with the other two-thirds split evenly between free-standing buildings and locations that are in semi-attached buildings, like strip malls, King told CNBC.
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There's Chinese and Vietnamese strip malls on the north end along Washington Avenue, a Cambodian neighborhood in the deep south near Seventh and Wolf, and an Indonesian community spread across neighborhoods on the west side of Broad Street.
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Making your way out of the "Loop," the I-610 highway that circles the city center like a shirt collar, skyscrapers give way to manicured office parks and strip malls, each seemingly a carbon copy of the last.
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The atmosphere and architecture shifted quickly, high-rise bustle giving way to a tropical suburbia of chain stores and subdivisions, and then to long stretches of low, snarled jungle interspersed with ranch-style houses and quiet strip malls.
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Making your way out of the "Loop," the I-250 highway that circles the city center like a shirt collar, skyscrapers give way to manicured office parks and strip malls, each seemingly a carbon copy of the last.
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With miles and miles of tract homes, strip malls, fancy condos, traffic jams, and expensive restaurants, it's taken on more of the character of the state's true metropolises—Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston—than locals like to admit.
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In his California hometown, Imperial, with its tidy, low-slung homes and desert suburban landscape of bail bonds offices, taco shacks and strip malls, Ruiz's accomplishment has uplifted a community that feels beleaguered by national divisiveness over immigrants.
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They started spreading the word about their product at Long Beach, California, strip malls, but it was a phone call out of the blue from the vice president of retail operations at Chevron that won them their big break.
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The big box chain is the world's largest retailer of guitars, amplifiers, drums, keyboards, recording, live sound, DJ and lighting equipment, and its more than 280 stores dot the strip malls and suburban shopping centers of the United States.
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The stores, in or near strip malls in towns outside of Salt Lake City, look a little like Petco, but the aisles are filled with ready-to-eat meals and solar generators instead of bags of kibble and litter.
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South Berwick, Me., a still rural New England town (population 7,500) and not a tony suburb, supports an independent pharmacy, grocery store, home appliances store and several restaurants despite bordering sales-tax-free New Hampshire and its strip malls.
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Danvers and Fury's sarcastic verbal dueling becomes a highlight of the film, as Vers steps out of a highly advanced civilization into a world of pay phones and strip malls while wearing a Starforce uniform and talking about shape-shifting aliens.
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That means using lidar to capture the rainbow-hued outlines of the motorcades and monuments that line the streets of Washington's tourists sections, as well as the dilapidated strip malls and crumbling townhouses in the city's less-well-off neighborhoods.
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And they're not just tanning salons and law offices to help you get out of DUIs, either; LA's strip malls are home to some of its very best places to eat excellent dumplings, super-fresh sushi, affordable brunch food, and more.
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Known for its devotion to tasteful Mediterranean-ish homes and strip malls that bear approximately the same architectural relationship to Tuscany as the Las Vegas Venetian does to Venice, the company has cultivated a few new trademarks in recent years.
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When she arrived on campus — a flat expanse of grassy courtyards and buildings amid strip malls, auto dealers and chain restaurants just beyond Dover's historic capital area — she found 33 other "opportunity scholars," just as worried and hopeful as she was.
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Like Ms. Kim, many were drawn to the area because of its schools and newer homes, and their influence is clear at strip malls all around the region: Ms. Kim's last campaign office was flanked by Taiwanese and Oaxacan restaurants.
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The Ash Meadows refuge, for example, was slated to be the Calvada Lakes housing development — including more than 30,000 homes, golf courses and strip malls — when the Nature Conservancy bought it in 2110 and donated it to the federal government.
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While Sin City is known for the extreme, relentless tourism of the Strip, there's plenty of action going on beyond that: Vegas has everything from a newly revitalized downtown area to weirdo strip malls to get you through the night.
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And while luxurious and nice — after all, its gated communities contain NBA players, Kardashians, and rappers along with dentists, lawyers, and agents — it's also the string of strip malls and cul-de-sacs that make so many other American suburbs devoid of personality.
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During the last summer of her life, Mujey lived with Sannoh, her closest aunt, in a quiet neighborhood sandwiched between strip malls, full of squat side-by-side duplexes and single-family homes built around the late '70s, all with big green yards.
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What I saw instead were cruddy strip malls, garish beach communities, and the ugly sprawl of car lots and franchise chicken joints and prefab warehouses, which issued out of the heart of every city and crawled along our highways like poisonous vines.
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My brothers and I scampered around the edge of a new construction site — a farm razed for houses and strip malls, where our Super Wal-Mart now stands — as I watched her hold her own among a group of powerful wealthy men.
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Everyone I spoke with said they never thought their laid-back suburb — with its quiet neighborhoods of ranch houses and its stucco strip malls — would be the site of a school shooting like the ones they'd seen so many times on the news.
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People are flocking to retail clinics and urgent care centers in strip malls or shopping centers, where simple health needs can usually be tended to by health professionals like nurse practitioners or physician assistants much more cheaply than in a doctor's office.
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It was bought in 2006 by North Brunswick T.O.D. Associates, a developer leading the effort to transform the aging commercial and industrial property into a new downtown in this town of 42,000 residents better known for its strip malls than its Main Street.
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Kohl's has managed to avoid the store-closure trend because it's somewhat immune to the drop-off in mall traffic — nine out of 10 Kohl's stores are in suburban strip malls and other areas away from enclosed shopping malls, the company says.
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But it's small things like that that all of a sudden my restaurant business that I invested in — a company called Wine and Design — now we can open up in all these strip malls and sell franchises like crazy because the regulatory environment has changed.
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The sides of the busway are landscaped and a bike path runs parallel, but at crossings, when you can see up and down intersecting streets, the view is of strip malls, liquor stores, car dealerships, and boxy apartment buildings butting up against single-family homes.
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Many of them have been found to stretch from Garita de Otay, an industrial area in the northern part of the city, to Otay Mesa, a neighborhood in San Diego that "consists of highways, strip malls, and a few hundred warehouses clustered near the border."
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I've lately found myself planning my layovers at Vancouver International — now North America's leading hub for flights to Asia — around forays to a string of shopping centers and strip malls, which are a 15-minute ride from the airport via elevated Skytrain from the airport.
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It was dark, and she passed the empty parking lots of strip malls, the neon signs of chain restaurants and the quiet of so many subdivisions on a Sunday night in a place where there were so many expectations of a woman like her.
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The controversial Silicon Valley entrepreneur is joining a startup called City Storage Systems that focuses on repurposing distressed real estate assets like parking lots or abandoned strip malls and turning them into spaces suited for new industries, such as food delivery or online retail.
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However, the retailer has a few secret weapons that have helped it survive, namely the fact that nine out of 10 Kohl's stores are in suburban strip malls and not standard shopping malls, which means declining foot traffic in malls isn't as much of a threat.
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It's Love who serves as Joe's guide to Los Angeles (and who serves up that J. Gold line): She introduces him to the city via the search for his "perfect bite," taking him on a tour of food trucks and strip malls (which, sorry, but: yawn!
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For example, Julia Brown's An Abundance of Strawberries is very pastoral, full of Byronesque lyrical romanticism like "my heart is the leaves, my body the trees", and sensory eulogies for the woods and parks Ray grew up wandering around before they were replaced by strip malls and housing developments.
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The other, COR Development Company, is one of the most prominent real estate developers in central New York, a builder that has received millions in state subsidies as it amassed a portfolio of strip malls, office parks, apartment complexes, a hotel and several state-funded nanotechnology projects near Syracuse.
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Most US cities and towns built in the latter half of the 20th century — especially the midsize and smaller ones, on the periphery or between the better-known big cities — feature highways, strip malls, and chain stores surrounded by single-family homes on winding, curved streets ending in culs de sac.
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Even in the program's native Nacogdoches, Texas, where the university sits amidst a Wal-Mart, a nondescript road with numerous strip malls, and a virtually deserted historical downtown, football is still options A through D. "High school football is big here, but there is a great vibe for basketball," Underwood says.
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Elsewhere in the city, abandoned storefronts mingle with used furniture dealers; bail bonds shops sit in squat strip malls with asphalt that looks like it hasn't been repaved since the Vietnam War—but on Balsam Street you find a newly painted bighorn sheep or shaman on nearly every available wall.
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In late January or early February, its strip malls and no-nonsense main drag can feel like the center of the political world, as the news media descends and the voters decide whom they will rocket to the center of the presidential race with their first-in-the-nation primary.
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Aroma Restaurant is a pretty prime example, because it is truly the ugliest looking place in one of the worst strip malls, and there's no way that anyone would assume that there would be good food in there or any kind of idea of the service that takes place there.
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Tucked away in a bland, blue-gray office park in Scottsdale, Arizona, Alcor Life Extension Foundation rests against a backdrop of a sienna-toned quilt of strip malls, ranch homes, gun clubs, and cacti stitched together with slabs of highway that seem as wide and endless as the sunset vistas.
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They say they worry less about what they're missing in the city and focus more on what they're gaining: year-round access to the beach and what they describe as an agricultural Shangri-La, where farm stands outnumber suburban strip malls and boats — not just cars — are parked in driveways.
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The greatest generation rebuilt the world economy from the ashes of World War II. But this explosive growth came at extreme cost: fertile bottomlands buried in strip malls and suburban sprawl, accelerated deforestation, extinctions of native species, smoggy air and poisoned waters, and not least putting carbon combustion on overdrive.
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To accommodate growth, Seattle needs what growing cities have traditionally had — not just luxury high-rises on a narrow swathe of land, but the ability to sprinkle duplexes, triplexes, garden apartments, and rowhouses throughout the city and for strip malls and low-rise retail corridors to grow and evolve into secondary business districts.
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You'll pass like 42 strip malls, and a bevy of Indian diners, and the parking lot rests across from a row of police cruisers, which is unfortunate, but fuck it, because of what you have waiting inside: the sacks of katsuobushi, the tins of curry powder, the furikake and kombu and the shoyu.
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Orange County doesn't offer a sense of place so much as a sense of placelessness, and if it weren't for the consistently balmy weather, much of it, with its six-lane freeways and big-box stores and strip malls and, yes, Panera Breads, could just as soon be in Illinois or Texas.
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Whereas nearly 18933 years ago, the settlers raced under perfect skies across a promising landscape of tall prairie grass, blooming dogwoods and "primordial trees uncut," Anderson staggers down the shoulder of Highway 62, past extinct strip malls, abandoned churches, a yard sale of animal cages and a Rottweiler straining against its chain.
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Stand outside Mr. Simon's Bay City office and you can almost feel it, that wave of development, of strip malls and gated communities, of big-box stores with bigger parking lots, rising up from the outskirts of faraway Austin, ebbing toward Houston and gaining strength as it rolls south toward that very spot.
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Restaurants featuring cuisines from all over the world are nestled in suburban strip malls, your standard Safeway has three kinds of kale, and if you encounter a recipe that calls for an ingredient you can't get — while book sales are declining generally, cookbook sales are up — well, that's no problem, you just order it online.
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But then, the government steps in, deciding to flood "6,400 acres of old family farms and small ramshackle homes and turn it into a reservoir by using the dam to divert the river," transforming corn fields into strip malls, drowning the valley under water, along with a way of life that has been perpetuating itself for generations.
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If you need a reminder, take a walk outside the club: past the strip malls and the fast-food restaurants; past the sidewalk evangelists and the backed-up traffic; past the very modest homes and unmanicured lawns just a few blocks removed from the golf nirvana where a stray leaf on a fairway looks out of place.
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The contrast was clear: If Breaking Bad was a more mythic tale of one man's downfall, set against the endless horizons of the New Mexico desert, then Better Call Saul would find its deserts in boardrooms and strip malls, in the many ways that human beings conspire to destroy each other, often via perfectly legal means.
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As part of the deal, the Taubman family is selling one-third of their stake and will continue to own 20% of Taubman Realty Group LP. The deal, which is expected to close within about six months, comes as mall operators are under increasing pressure to lure shoppers, who more and more favor buying products online or at strip malls where it is easy to dart in and out with purchases.
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When you spend weeks on end traveling the strip malls and big-box stores of America, you start to appreciate small differences in what can seem like archipelagos of sameness: the way the Targets get cleaner as you approach corporate headquarters in Minneapolis; the novelty of an unusually small Walmart in Indiana; the McDonald's in Pomeroy, Ohio, that served pizza, the remainder of an abandoned experiment in the '22s.
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In the 7th District, its presence is as evident as anywhere: Driving along the area's Energy Corridor, near strip malls, car dealerships and gleaming apartment complexes, stand the ConocoPhillips headquarters and offices for Shell and BP. Beyond sitting at the forefront of Texas' demographic changes, Houston embodies two of the core political challenges of the coming years: the future of the energy industry and the fight against climate change.
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His focus on the everyday and the undistinguished would continue with "All the Meat You Can Eat," a 2000 show at a gallery in then-rough SoHo, where Mr. Shore exhibited hundreds of dry or kitschy found images — flat picture postcards of hospitals and strip malls, topless pinup girls and F-216 fighter jets — among his own photographs, many shot with the Mick-a-Matic camera, a children's apparatus shaped like Mickey Mouse.
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" There is goose-pimpling writing about Terry Gross ("demotic ur-parent, Catcher in the WHYY"), envy ("You need people well enough informed to understand just how enviable you are"), and the odd poignancy of The New York Review of Books, which "continued to devote such good minds and scholarship to what after five minutes in the desert sun, driving with the top down by imitation-adobe strip malls full of nail salons and smoothie shops and physical therapy outlets, was almost painfully irrelevant.
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