Spread out across multiple city-sized blocks in suburban Tustin next to Irvine, The District at Tustin Legacy is an outdoor shopping mall notable for hosting numerous big box retailers alongside entertainment destinations and largely California-based restaurants – chains and indies. In addition to stores ranging from Barnes & Noble and Costco to Lowe’s, Target, and Whole Foods, The District has locations of Planet Fitness, AMC/IMAX theater screens, and physical/video gaming spaces, as well as restaurants such as Chick-Fil-A, Curry Pizza House, In-N-Out, two different hot pot spots, and The Yellow Chilli. A spacious food hall never recovered after the pandemic and remains closed, though multiple drink and dessert shops have opened nearby in its wake. Turnover has been fairly high, with Dolce Gelato and Zip Korean BBQ notably exiting in 2025 and 2026, and More Yogurt taking a year to replace an earlier, similar Chinese yogurt smoothie shop; multiple restaurants and other shops are under construction and may be “coming soon” at any given point.
Originally opened in 2007, The District at Tustin Legacy currently hosts a weekly farmer’s market every Sunday morning, a Spirit of Halloween store around the holidays, and occasionally other pop-ups under a colorfully decorated courtyard space adjacent to the AMC theaters. While parking is plentiful, some of the big box retailers (including Lowe’s, Target, and Whole Foods) are in substantially different parts of The District from the theaters.
