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Sure Coast Plaza has some decent stores but nothing to rave about.. the immediate surrounding area feels like a Dress Barn demographic imo compared to places like Bal Harbour. Cherry Creek North and Cherry Creek mall area in Denver is much more upscale than Costa Mesa will ever hope to be. I think people myself included only shop Costa Mesa for convenience rather than destination.
Last edited by Scott5280; 03-11-2011 at 02:00 AM..
Sure Coast Plaza has some decent stores but nothing to rave about.. the immediate surrounding area feels like a Dress Barn demographic imo compared to places like Bal Harbour. Cherry Creek North and Cherry Creek mall area in Denver is much more upscale than Costa Mesa will ever hope to be. I think people myself included only shop Costa Mesa for convenience rather than destination.
I've heard South Coast is really up there with Bal Harbor.
Sure Coast Plaza has some decent stores but nothing to rave about.. the immediate surrounding area feels like a Dress Barn demographic imo compared to places like Bal Harbour. Cherry Creek North and Cherry Creek mall area in Denver is much more upscale than Costa Mesa will ever hope to be. I think people myself included only shop Costa Mesa for convenience rather than destination.
Cherry Creek Mall is very nice.
But South Coast Plaza has quite a bit more very upscale boutiques. They arent really comparable.
But South Coast Plaza has quite a bit more very upscale boutiques. They arent really comparable.
I shop at both and I agree South Coast has way better options, but South Coast is so overrated I was actually there yesterday. Fashion Island is smaller but it seems more geared towards the international shopping crowd. South Coast is just a huge sprawling mess..Cherry Creek North one block North of the mall while not as famous has store front boutiques like Beverly Hills,Aspen and ties the whole shopping district together and is a hub for the entire mountain west.
I never found anything appealing about South Coast Plaza. Architecture is nothing compared to the Houston Galleria, for instance. South Coast Plaza's layout and look reminds of a large Countryside Mall (Clearwater, FL) with super-expensive stores.
Just for the buzz factor, I much prefer a Houston Galleria over South Coast Plaza. There's just about every worldly persuasion walking around the Houston Galleria. But I don't give a flip about boutiques, because there's nothing I'd get (or be able to) from the Galleria or South Coast Plaza anyway, lol. In L.A. metro, I'd much rather walk down Western@Wilshire for a buzz factor. Forget about Orange County!
A lot of the malls and shopping centers being mentioned here may indeed have an influx of international visitors but not the cachet of chic upscale elegance to which the OP is alluding. In Florida, the only shopping center that would seem to meet that criteria is Bal Harbour (I don't include upscale shopping districts such as Worth Ave, Lincoln Rd, St Armand's Circle or 5th St South as they are not planned developments per se). Developments that meet this criteria seem to be concentrated in Miami and Los Angeles (weather no doubt being a factor).
If you want to expand the list to include the country's most upscale and cosmopolitan shopping districts, you can include 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue in NYC, Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles, Union Square in San Francisco, Turtle Creek and Highland Park Village in Dallas and Michigan Ave in Chicago.
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