mini-mall

In the morning Omura picked up client Karen Ford at her hangout at a mini-mall and drove her to an SRO in Wilmington.

It’s the mini-mall, the strip mall, whose forebears began a century ago when developers realized that all those people driving all those new cars had to park in order to shop.

In April 1986, my veterinarian’s wife stood atop a historic building in Eagle Rock, defying the wrecking ball that would soon knock the place down to make way for a mini-mall.

The day she spent in jail galvanized her neighbors, and soon, the city tapped the brakes on mini-mall proliferation.

My favorite is about the two best friends who started the La Mancha development company, one of the biggest and canniest of the mini-mall builders.