There are 60 plus fancy shops in the building, you can go to any.

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Is there any days difference in meaning? Do they sound natural?

1- There are 60 plus fancy shops in the building, you can go to any.
2- There are 60 plus fancy shops in the building, you can go to any of them.
3- There are 60 plus fancy shops in the building, you can go to any shop.
 

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I'd go with the second, and I'd also break it into two sentences - 'There are 60 plus fancy shops in the building. You can go to any of them'.
 
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Is there any days difference in meaning between the following three sentences? Do they sound natural?

1- There are 60-plus fancy shops in the building; you can go to any.
2- There are 60-plus fancy shops in the building; you can go to any of them.
3- There are 60-plus fancy shops in the building; you can go to any shop.
Note my changes above. You need to hyphenate "60-plus". Like White Hat, I'd split all of them into two separate sentences. However, I have used a semi-colon in each one above as that's an alternative. Your sentences all contained comma splices.
Sentence 2 is the most natural.
Sentence 1 is OK.
Sentence 3 is too wordy with the repetition of "shop".
 
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There are over 60 fancy shops in the building. You can go to any of them.
I have to ask. Is it normal there that there are some shops in a mall that people are not allowed to visit?
 

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Another alternative to fixing those comma splices is adding a coordinating conjunction after the comma. 'And' or 'so' see like the best options for these sentences. I concur that the second one is the more natural of the two.


1- There are 60-plus fancy shops in the building, and/so you can go to any.
2- There are 60-plus fancy shops in the building, so/and you can go to any of them.


One a side note, what is a 'fancy shop'? It's not used in AmE.
 

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If we're talking about how to write these utterances down, I'd go with 60+.

I think 60-plus is an odd way to write this, to say the least.
 

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One a side note, what is a 'fancy shop'? It's not used in AmE.
In Indian English, a fancy shop (often called XYZ Fancy Store(s)) is a shop that sells costume jewellery and accessories (especially women's) and decorative, glitzy items. The term isn't as common now as it used to be.

I don't know if the OP is using it in that meaning or if he just means posh, expensive shops. Maybe he'll tell us.
 
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