1.   And often, they stand on a spot where a developer wants to put a parking garage or strip mall.

2.   As you go farther out on Commerce Street, the landscape, deceptively, turns to strip malls.

3.   Everywhere around town there are new housing developments and strip malls.

4.   In both North Carolina and Georgia, rural areas are being eaten up by subdivisions and strip malls.

5.   New centers are springing up in cities and strip malls across the country.

6.   Open land has been turned into sites for suburban subdivisions, big-box discount outlets and strip malls.

7.   The major cross streets are dotted with fast-food restaurants and strip malls.

8.   The other family businesses include a paper mill in Vermont and strip malls in California, Texas, Oklahoma, Washington and Oregon.

9.   Think of all the precious real estate we could convert from golf courses to strip malls.

10.   But open spaces are quickly giving way to strip malls, car dealerships, office parks and fast-food joints here.