shopstead means A commercial building that has been or is being renovated as part of a shopsteading program. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
noun
- A commercial building that has been or is being renovated as part of a shopsteading program.“The program is supported by merchants, who see abandoned storefronts in neighborhood shopping strips as hurting their business, and by neighborhood residents, who have been given a say in what types of businesses they want in the shopstead properties.”
verb
- 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).”