Out & About San Diego with Jim Frimmer, Your Mission Valley Realtor — Shop 'til you drop with one-stop shopping

Shop 'til you drop with one-stop shopping

Gasoline prices continue to increase, so if you'd rather park the car and shop 'til you drop, here are the San Diego County shopping centers where you can do just that!

1. Carlsbad Premium Outlets, 5620 Paseo del Norte, Carlsbad
   90 stores
2. Cedros Design District, South Cedros Avenue, Solana Beach
   More than 85 boutique stores line this section of Solana Beach. Find unique fashions, antiques, handcrafted furniture, and home accessories.
3. Chula Vista Center, 555 Broadway, Chula Vista
   95 stores, including the only Sears store in the South Bay. Also has JCPenney, Macy's, and a 10-screen theater complex.
4. Fashion Valley, 7007 Friars Road, San Diego
   With 205 stores, this is San Diego's largest mall, and perhaps the ritziest, too, with Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Neiman-Marcus, and Nordstrom. Also has a JCPenney, Tiffany & Co., Luis Vuitton, Gucci, Apple, and Microsoft. Although there is plenty of parking, Fashion Valley's location at the intersection of Highway 163 and Interstate 5 mean that traffic getting into and out of the mall often backs up onto the freeways. Try parking elsewhere and taking the bus or the San Diego Trolley to the Fashion Valley Transit Center.
5. Grossmont Shopping Center, 5500 Grossmont Boulevard, La Mesa
   94 stores, including Macy's, Target, a newly renovated Walmart, and a 10-screen theater complex.
6. Las Ameicas Premium Outlets, 4211 Camino de la Plaza, San Diego
   125 stores
7. Otay Ranch Town Center, 2015 Birch Road, Chula Vista
   100 stores, including a 12-screen theater complex. This is San Diego County's newest mall, open only four years.
8. Viejas Outlet Center, 5005 Wills Road, Alpine
   53 stores, and if you get tired of shopping, you can do some gaming at the Viejas Casino or eat at one of their excellent buffet meals.
9. Westfield Horton Plaza, 324 Horton Plaza, downtown San Diego
   117 stores. This still ranks as a fun mall simply because it's the most unusual mall you'll ever get to. It's a multi-store open air mall with weird angles, bridges from to side and up and down, escalators, and elevators. Parking in the garage is $8 an hour, but stores will validate your purchases for three hours of parking. There is usually a holiday ice-skating rink at the main entrance on Broadway.
10. Westfield Mission Valley, 1640 Camino del Rio North, San Diego
    112 stores. Popular with the younger crowd because of the 20-screen theater complex. Along with Target, there are two Macy's stores, one at each end of the mall. There is also Westfield Mission Valley West across the street, which includes one of the nation's top Borders Books & Music stores.
11. Westfield North County, 272 E. Via Rancho Parkway, Escondido
    143 stores. This is San Diego County's largest indoor mall and includes JCPenney, Macy's, Nordstrom, and Sears.
12. Westfield Parkway, 415 Parkway Plaza, El Cajon
    162 stores. Along with an 18-screen theater complex, there is a JCPenney, Macy's, Sears, and Walmart.
13. Westfield Plaza Bonita, 3030 Plaza Bonita Road, National City
    148 stores. Plaza Bonita was renovated and expanded in 2008 and has a 14-screen theater complex, JCPenney, Macy's, and Target.
14. Westfield Plaza Camino Real, 2525 El Camino Real, Carlsbad
    120 stores, including JCPenney, Macy's, and Sears.
15. Westfield UTC, 4545 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla
    133 stores, including Macy's, Nordstrom, and Sears. This mall has a year-round ice-skating rink.

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