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Reinstalling and restoring your saved games would just give you back the same shopless/workplaceless game you had before. And it's not necessary to reinstall your game to restore it to defaults.
You can rebuild them, I think, if you enter a lot in build mode and it's a community lot rather than residential. Not sure what part of the catalog the buildings show up under, but if you use the eyedropper tool on them (you can create a new neighborhood temporarily to test this in), it should show you.
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