strip mall

Noun

 * 1)  A shopping center consisting of a row of stores with separate entrances from the outdoors, typically along a road and/or with a parking lot in front.
 * 2) * April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightville
 * Fightville resembles a real-life Foot Fist Way, in that much of the action takes place within the cinder-block walls of a strip-mall gym, this one located next to a Piggly Wiggly in Lafayette, Louisiana.