Creating a new entity with existing entity type

Question

I am fairly new with Magento and not sure if answer to this is very trivial, but looking at available help through search. I was not able to figure out the right way.

For a solution, I am building with Magento I want to add a address for a new entity, which i have created (say Store entity - Multistore setup). My initial thought was to user existing address entity created by Magento base but then realized that it's more specific to customer entity (table name: customer_address_entity). So I decided to create a new entity with name store_address_entity.

However, the store_address_entity attributes are very similar to customer_address_entity and there is no point of repeating the attributes and was wondering, If there is any better way to do this. I mean

• Can I create store_address_entity with customer_address_entity type?

• Or Use same attribute set for shop_address_entity as for customer_address_entity?