COMMENT 149219
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2011-02-26 08:38 AM |
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It's funny that you are nice enough to profile a mall and give it free, positive publicity, and a mall cop tells you to stop snapping photos (guess you did not talk to management first). The rule is pointless; people can easily take all the pictures they want, undetected, with cell phone cameras. The mall is a lot nicer with the plants and upgrades in recent years, but it still is a mall. Americans have a love hate relationship with malls versus downtown shopping. This mall, like many, has trouble figuring out its identity
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COMMENT 149223P
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2011-02-26 08:41 AM |
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I'm glad you mentioned the landscaping, because the 'dry' look of the La Cumbre Plaza walking areas...turns me off. It is unfriendly because of that. I do shop at Macys and Sears, but I don't walk the interior because it depresses me. Make it more lush, a parklike setting/plaza, and I'm bringing my checkbook to shop. Include lots of comfortable benches or chairs, because when I am tired from shopping, I like to people watch while having a latte.
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COMMENT 149230
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2011-02-26 08:50 AM |
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Thanks for the article. The landscaping is an improvement,however we preferred it when the area was covered with lemon trees and orchards and there was one grocery store at Kelly's corner and one motel. One could walk safely down the hill without fear of certain death at the end of your journey, crushed by a monster truck and a yelling manic driver, because in his selfish entitled opinion you are walking too slowly on the crossing!
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CHILI_CON_ARTCARNE
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2011-02-26 08:51 AM |
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Upscale La Cumbre mall has gone downhill
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MCSEAS
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2011-02-26 09:13 AM |
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Why this huge free ad? I don't get it.
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COMMENT 149263
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2011-02-26 10:02 AM |
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my favorite tourist attraction in town
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COMMENT 149267
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2011-02-26 10:08 AM |
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I'm wondering the same thing as MCSEAS. Why profile a mall as a tourist attraction? I am disappointed to see this on Edhat.
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COMMENT 149281
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2011-02-26 10:53 AM |
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It nice because there aren't any homeless begging and pooping in bushes etc.
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SMARTYPANTS
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2011-02-26 10:54 AM |
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What cultural distinction does this commercial venue have to offer tourists? You could find this mall in any number of American cities with a temperate climate! The mall owners are not local and they take much of their rental proceeds and spend it in Los Angeles where they are based. Granted tax revenues help our city. The mall owners should be paying for promotion like this!!!
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COMMENT 149287
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2011-02-26 11:02 AM |
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I miss the stores that used to be there because i hate downtown. Bring back, The Limited, GAP, Bath and Body Works, Victorias Secret and Red Robin!
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COMMENT 149230
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2011-02-26 11:40 AM |
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287 Sigh. Yes, all those and more... Cafe Au Lait, Back Street, Bombay etc etc etc.........
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COMMENT 149302
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2011-02-26 11:55 AM |
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How about you guys do something about it, besides rant on a message board...
I enjoy the atmosphere at La Cumbre
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COMMENT 149230
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2011-02-26 12:50 PM |
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302 I think this message board allows "rant" from all positions. It helps to "get it off one's chest and share. After all, there is little else one can do to alter things,we cannot bring back all our favourite stores.
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COMMENT 149327
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2011-02-26 01:27 PM |
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It's so odd that in this day and age the 2nd poster complains about the "dry look" landscaping. It's called xeriscaping, and it's more than a look. The water not wasted on plants is water we will all be able to drink! Plus, they did a lovely job of using attractive pots, varying colors, textures and scale, and scattering pockets of color in many more locations than just the planting beds.
You can still sit many places, get a lattte, people watch. And, they welcome dogs, so it's a pretty nice place to hang.
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COMMENT 149331
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2011-02-26 01:35 PM |
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Looks like a ghost town to me on the rare occasion I stop by there anymore. Am betting that whoever okayed the "Gucci-fication" of this place is no longer employed. Still used to be pretty vibrant mall 10 or so years ago.
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COMMENT 149223P
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2011-02-26 01:39 PM |
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Dogs is reason NOT to go there.
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COMMENT 149347
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2011-02-26 03:07 PM |
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I for one support this article on La Cumbre Plaza. For various reasons but mainly for a reminder to shop there. It's a nice center with upscale shops and eateries and if ignored could easily be thrown to the wayside in the interest of condo's etc etc.. Don't think it couldn't happen.
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COMMENT 149352
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2011-02-26 04:02 PM |
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The security at La Cumbre Plaza is the biggest ad dumbest joke ever.
You should all try to do some shopping at Von's around 11 PM but park across the mall.
The security is going to run after you and threaten you to call the cops if you don't move your car. Also you don't have the right to window shopping while the stores are closed.
Macerich is a total joke!
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COMMENT 149361
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2011-02-26 04:44 PM |
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Used to shop there frequently when it was vibrant and alive. I too miss the stores that were once there.Too upscale for me now, if I go there I also just run into Sears or Macy's and leave. And I do like Marmalade.
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COMMENT 149402
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2011-02-26 08:55 PM |
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149334P: "The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs." ~Alphonse Toussenel. And even more fitting for you, "The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue." ~Author Unknown
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COMMENT 149407P
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2011-02-26 10:21 PM |
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I like La Cumbre. It's a pleasant place to take a walk and look at shops. As far as I'm concerned, almost everywhere in town now has either overpriced or uninteresting stores, so this isn't a huge exception. If dogs at this mall bother a person, I'm not sure how tolerant they can be. I only ever see one or two on occasion there. Would love to see a place you can eat in (besides the Deli, which is good but let's face it, sandwiches.) Marmalade is simply dreadful and so is Ruth's Chris.
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COMMENT 149410P
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2011-02-26 10:25 PM |
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I miss Cafe Au Lait and the bustling crowds on the weekends and at Christmas. Long gone.
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COMMENT 149456
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2011-02-27 11:20 AM |
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There is something deeply wrong with anyone who thinks that a shopping mall is a tourist attraction.
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COMMENT 149458
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2011-02-27 11:22 AM |
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They can dress up the place in all the Vuitton/Tiffany's, etc... they want but it's still the "yucky mall".
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COMMENT 149230
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2011-02-27 11:50 AM |
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Tourists shop too. Not all tourists arrive and exude from big buses,disappearing in two hours. My husband and I met a nice couple on a two week visit from Georgia in La Cumbre Plaza. They were looking for a music shop where they could purchase a guitar and we directed them to a store in town.
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GREG
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2011-02-27 12:56 PM |
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The Farmers' Market is missed at the mall - wonder what could enliven La Cumbre Mall and make it more inviting and interesting.
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COMMENT 149230
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2011-02-27 02:58 PM |
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I too miss the Farmer's Market. It was a fun place to visit.
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COMMENT 149407P
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2011-02-27 03:56 PM |
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Why is it yucky, 458? Seems clean and nicely landscaped to me. It is just that there aren't shops you want to go buy stuff in or what?
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COMMENT 151117P
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2011-03-04 06:11 PM |
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I've always thought that the place would get a ton more business if they put a roof over it...nothing fancy, just something to provide shade and rain protection. We have no covered malls in this town, I think more people would shop there.
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