Sekirov Dictionary

shopstead

noun 1
verb 1
forms 3

noun1

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A commercial building that has been or is being renovated as part of a shopsteading program.
- While renovating shopsteads, residents and city officials discovered artists needed affordable housing they could adapt for large, open studios. — 1994

verb1

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To buy and renovate abandoned shop facilities that are offered for sale inexpensively as part of an urban renewal policy.
- Many of the previously vacant commercial buildings along Baltimore Street have been "shopsteaded" (the commercial equivalent to homesteading). — 1983

forms

shopsteaded · shopsteading · shopsteads

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