Shopstead

Quick meaning: Shopstead is a verb meaning To buy and renovate abandoned shop facilities that are offered for sale inexpensively as part of an urban renewal policy.

Meaning

To buy and renovate abandoned shop facilities that are offered for sale inexpensively as part of an urban renewal policy.

More Meanings

1. A commercial building that has been or is being renovated as part of a shopsteading program.

Example Sentences

This means that there must be an identifiable market for goods and services in the shopstead area.

Many of the previously vacant commercial buildings along Baltimore Street have been "shopsteaded" (the commercial equivalent to homesteading).

While renovating shopsteads, residents and city officials discovered artists needed affordable housing they could adapt for large, open studios.

The city offered businesses the option to “shopstead,” a program that rented storefronts for $1 per square foot per year, renewable for up to forty-seven years (Jordan 1986).

Word Forms

• shopsteads
• shopsteading
• shopsteaded

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include yard-sale, mall, outshop, storehouse, campshed, street.

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