Heritage Hill Plaza — Local services in Lake Forest

My last errand of the day was at Chase Bank in this neighborhood style mall. Chase just relocated the personal banking Branch from Trabuco and El Toro in the Stater Bros Shopping Center to this Heritage Hill Plaza .

In this Plaza you'll find a Ralph's, CVS Pharmacy, UPS Store, Bagel and Brew Restaurant , Modern Image Beauty Salon, Ace Hardware Nail salon shoe repair shop Togo's sandwiches, Marine recruiting, donut shop, UPS Store / post boxes, Nail Salon, Music School, Chase Bank, US Bank, Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants, jewelry store, flower shop, Brizio Pizza, Shoe Repair, Hair Cutters, Orange County Credit Union, and a number of medical and dental offices. Those are the businesses I can think of off the top of my head but I'm sure I've missed a few .

Good amount of parking and many of the spaces, especially on the side of the lot towards Lake Forest Drive (on the other side of the lot, away from the stores) are shaded till around 2 p.m. 75' Canary Island Pines growing there. There's also a recycling center in back of Ralphs where you can be trade cans and...

This WAS a very nice center, just what the neighbor needed. What we’ve lost due to a big increase in lease rates:

US Bank Crown ACE Hardware Beauty Suppely & Salon

These tenants were very desirable. We live here, unlike the owners, we know what we need.

We NEED the wonderful hardware store support that Crown ACE Hardware has provided the community for decades.

We have been grateful too for US BANK. The staff was exceptional.

The beauty supply and salon was another tenant many of us appreciate having in our neighborhood.

What we don’t need is a car wash and other valueless tenants that will ultimately degrade our neighborhood.

That your owners chose to do an unimpressive “facelift” of the center’s building exterior is not justification to raise the rent to impossible rates. Shame on...

My husband and I walked through the holiday light display. Several buildings were open and there were docents there to answer questions and give information about each building. We visited the Episcopal church and the old one-room schoolhouse. The original adobe wasn't open, but we could look in the windows.

I can't believe this was my first time visiting this park is...