The Market Place

I love coming here because it has so much to offer. It has a great Baby’s R Us, some really nice restaurants, and a few good stores for home goods. There’s always plenty of parking, and it’s located right off the freeway.

Be careful — someone stole my brand new Galaxy S6 right out of my purse while I was shopping at Starbucks. I called the Marketplace Security and they didn’t seem too interested, they reluctantly took my information but I didn’t feel like they have any concern about keeping the customers safe.

Great time watching the ducks game last night, and lots of fun for the kids. Great give always, popcorn, water free, great atmosphere to be. Go ducks!

I love the versatility and how many options you get when you go there.

Unlike the District, The Markplace is easy to get in and out of. I would give it 5 stars, but they built over parking in order to create some weird fake grass patch. That seemed like a dumb move in my opinion.

Definitely someplace that me and my boyfriend like’s to go sometimes!
We like going to REI, my boyfriend’s a gym junkie so he likes to buy all kinds of sporty things. Such as his shoes or anything fancy for his bicycle, etc.
It’s a nice place to just chill and walk around, just wish it was inside an Air Conditioner, but it’s an outside mall.

I love everything about target it’s one of my favorite dept stores to shop and look around! It’s also a great hangout place for me and my friends to go to and talk and laugh about certain stuff! The clothing and electronic sections are my favorite areas to browse around! I’m pretty much in those sections every time I go into that store! The checkers that help me are always so friendly and the same with the cafeteria workers!

Used to go here a lot when I lived in oc… Used to go to the total wine and more store! Loved it! More variety then any bevmo I’ve been to. Nice selection of stores, it’s very spread out which is nice. Lots of parking. The toys are US And babies are us are big and have a huge selection of toys and baby clothes and a even bigger clearance rack!

Great selection of dining/​restaurants, shopping and everything else you would need! Tons of parking with lots of recently renovated and added seating and restaurants. I come here a few times a week for my household needs :)

I’m a fan! I would definitely hit this shopping marketplace again. I like how it is kind of spread out as well so it breaks up some of the traffic unlike other malls that seem very crowded. There’s anything from home depot to Ulta beauty supplies, and a few restaurants. A movie Theatre is included in this marketplace of stores and places to eat. There’s a Starbucks and a bunch of outdoor seating with umbrellas in many different areas. I love the organization of the mall. You can tell it was well planned out, and there are signs directing you everywhere so it is easy to find which way you need to go for the specific store you want to hit. I would say on the flip side a major drawback could be how spread out everything is, meaning if you are planning on hitting multiple stores in one day and doing a shopping spree, it could get annoying having to get out shop, then jump back in your car and repeat. Nevertheless, still a mall I would return to!

The Market Place plaza covers a large area all the way from Irvine Blvd. to El Camino, and even further within the streets. Some of it extends over to the Tustin border. There are a lot of places to shop here like Best Buy, Barnes And Noble, Target, and other neat places like that.
There are 3 food court-​like QSR complexes where one can buy food from a bunch of places and eat outside. The one with the most eateries in it is the one on Irvine Blvd/​Jamboree where Class 302 is.
The bad part about this entire plaza is mostly related to parking and how one can drive around the plaza, and that it’s not possible to walk to each location due to the main road intersecting with it. If one wants to get their shopping done on foot around here, then they would probably have to be a dedicated Ingress player that could get all of the locations in the entire shopping plaza and have the stamina and durable enough plastic bags to carry everything from one place to the next without them breaking.
4 stars mainly because coupon deals here are the most convenient to obtain off the Irvine Company website and use at the same time. However, I won’t rate it any higher than that due to certain parts of the plaza having incredibly difficult parking situations and how to get out of the parking lot in certain parts.

I was greeted at the door, and the guy kindly told me about all the deals and even helped me get extra deals! Helped me through my shoe search and was super friendly and kind during it all! Great customer service! Very irvine worthy store

There are a ton of shops, restaurants, and food places here. It’s nice to just sit outside next to the fountains. There are a lot of outdoor seating places here.
The bad thing is that you must drive to get from one plaza to another. You can walk, but it’s not close and you run the risk of people hitting you with their cars since the roads are not clearly labeled and most things are under construction. I really wonder why they did not make this place like the Irvine Spectrum, like everything centralized and you can just walk from place to place. It just adds to people using their cars for everything. I find that I need my GPS to find places in this shopping plaza. Difficult to enter and exit.
Yep, this place is the poster child for terrible suburban planning.

This review is strictly for the dumb overzealous security guards. I was attempting to pick up a disabled person, who truly has a hard time walking anywhere. No handicap parking in sight, I was told to keep circling the giant over crowded parking lot, where I proceeded to get lost, almost had multiple car accidents and generally pissed off a ton of patrons who were looking for parking.
I was also forced to text and drive, since when my poor disabled person saw I wasn’t sitting out where I should be, he started walking (ugh) to where he thought I could get him easier. So confused, frustrated and generally unhappy, where three minutes of waiting (COMPLETELY out of the way, I will add) could have avoided all of that.
I know security doesn’t give a crap about patrons, but every store in the center can be found elsewhere. I’ll be sure to do that from now on. Screw your wanna — be cops making regular people miserable just so they can feel important. Hope you read this IRVINE LAND COMPANY!

No matter how many times I come to this mall, finding a particular shop (other than the usual suspects) can be a little difficult. Mall is open and divided into different plazas/​sections that don’t necessarily connect. Plus, there’s always lots of cars on Jamboree which makes it a little harder.
I still come here a lot for specific stores, but just wish they’d label their parking lots with letters or numbers so it’s easier to find stores.

The Market Place has gotten better! There’s actually shops here that I would frequent.
I feel like this center goes up and down every few years, from being über awesome to just OK.
Let me tell you though: back when I grew up in Tustin Ranch (around 10 — 13 years ago), this was THE place to go. There used to be not one but two cinemas, a Red Robin, and such. Now: lots more restaurants, some fast food, fast casual, and proper dining, an assortment of your big box shops and boutiques, one cinema, a few coffee chains, and an all around center that has your neighborhood necessities.
Tustin side has, on the whole, some more of the discount stores (Ross, Marshalls), both sides have furnishings, and oddly enough — Toys R Us is on the Tustin side and Babies R Us is on the Irvine. Think they should be next door like I do?
Nevertheless, ample outdoor courtyards to enjoy the southern California sunshine!

Wow! I haven’t been here in years, but they really have built up a lot around here. They have a lot of everything. Clothes, food, furniture, books.. . You name it, they got it. We parked at a restaurant and just walked around for 5 hours and still didn’t see the whole place. We will definitely go back.

Go to the MARKET at that PLACE over there
Let me start by saying I HATE MALLS! They are crowded and have way too many UNSUPERVISED middle schoolers/​teen brats running around and just basically ruining what could be a nice afternoon by their baboonery! If that were NOT enough then you have to contend with parking!
So that said I actually LIKE this SORT-​OF OUTDOORSY STYLE MALL! It’s about a mile or so long and covers TWO SIDES of the street! It’s like a massive strip mall that runs down Jamboree and includes movie theaters, eating places, coffee cafés, and shops for men, women and children. I think it is the openness that I like but NOT the parking or the traffic on both sides of the street!
I’ve been coming here since it sprang from the dirt! When you first come here it can be a little confusing because you don’t know where anything is located and I have NEVER seen one of those «You are here» store locator signs. If that were not bad enough you will see signs posted with the names of stores on them but look a bit closer and you’ll see arrows pointing to the opposite side of the street! When you’re in your car surrounded by 4 lanes of traffic trying to figure out where the store is that you’re looking for it can be a pain especially on a Saturday or Sunday!
I like that once I locate the store I want to go in I don’t have to park a country mile away, bring snacks and hike in like in regular roofed and walled in malls! So it makes shopping quicker and easier depending on what store you’re going to and the time of day! Midday Saturday and Sunday you can cancel Christmas because it is pretty packed out and you’ll be there for a while! Miss your entrance you might as well add another 15 mins because now you FRICKIN have to go down and try to find your way back in the maze of a parking lot which blocks you or makes you go around, down and sideways just to get back to point A where you initially wanted to go!
If you miss-​read the sign and are on the wrong side of the street add an additional 20 mins to your shopping trip because NOW you have to find and exit that has a light and NOT one that will ONLY ALLOW you turn RIGHT to go NORTH or SOUTH down Jamboree not only that there is sooooo much FRICKIN traffic on Jamboree you could NEVVVVAAAA EVVVVAAAAAAA try and dart across the street to the other side because it would basically be suicide! Think of trying to run, yes run across the 5 freeway with cars going upwards of about 70 MPH. You’d be taking a dirt nap before you know it and you can forget that new shirt you wanted to buy!
Anyway once you learn the maze that is THE MARKET PLACE it’s a nice place but the headaches you get before you know your way around will probably have you going somewhere else where you feel less like the rat in the MAZE!
On the plus side they have some nice outside seating around the food places but if the weather is good they fill up too. They do have umbrellas and some trees outside since its gets so hot out there at times you can fry a chicken on the sidewalk! GOODNESS GRACIOUS!
Over all a nice place but it has it challenges! I’ll probably come back because it’s still better than being closed in and they have my wonderful REI.

So I am sadly old enough to remember when they built this place while I was in HS. It was at that time an absolutely stellar place to go. Since then it has kind of been deteriorating.
They have the same early 90s paint scheme. Sorry but lets ummm perhaps go for an overhaul? A lot of the buildings just seem faded as can be. I know that they have grown and expanded and essentially tripled the size of this place since its original creation.
I like that they have a number of grassy spots in the newer areas. I also like the trees that they have all over the entire property. I am not happy with the ingress and egress in some of the newer parts, but it works. The traffic jams are not half as bad as the district, diamond plaza, or south coast plaza IMHO.
Overall its a decent place with a bunch of large chain outlet stores. Not my favorite joint around, but I do find that I frequent it fairly often for neither living nor working anywhere nearby.

The Market Place is another area I find myself in every single time I am in OC.
Reason being Loehmanns.
God I love that store, also noticed they have a TJ Maxx here, not a runway, but a descent one.
There are some good dining options, tons of shopping.
It doesn’t get too full here and there is plenty of parking, nice, easy stop.
I’m sure I’ll be back all the time.
Interesting that the Market Place is spread between two cities, the TJ Maxx is in Tustin, the Loehmann’s in Irvine and they are right across the street from each other.