Irvine Spectrum is a district in southeastern Irvine,

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, centered on the

Irvine Spectrum Center The Irvine Spectrum Center is an outdoor shopping center developed by the Irvine Company, located in the Irvine Spectrum district on the southeast edge of Irvine, California. The mall features Nordstrom and Target department stores, a ferris wheel ...

shopping and

lifestyle center A lifestyle center (American English), or lifestyle centre (Commonwealth English), is a shopping center or mixed-used commercial development that combines the traditional retail functions of a shopping mall with leisure amenities oriented toward ...

. It is also an

edge city ''Edge city'' is a term that originated in the United States for a concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional downtown or central business district, in what had previously been a suburban residential or rura ...

, a concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional downtown, as defined by

Joel Garreau Joel Garreau (born 1948) is an American journalist, scholar, and author. In 1981, Garreau published ''The Nine Nations of North America''. In 1991, he published '' Edge City: Life on the New Frontier''. In 2005, he published ''Radical Evolutio ...

in his 1991 book ''Edge City: Life on the New Frontier''. The Irvine Spectrum Center is anchored by Target,

Nordstrom Nordstrom, Inc. () is an American luxury department store chain headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and founded by John W. Nordstrom and Carl F. Wallin in 1901. The original Wallin & Nordstrom store operated exclusively as a shoe store, a ...

and a large

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multiplex. Office space is leased by the

Irvine Company The Irvine Company LLC is an American private company focused on real estate development. It is headquartered in Newport Beach, California, with a large portion of its operations centered in and around Irvine, California, a planned city of more ...

, which promotes Irvine Spectrum as Orange County's new "tech hub" and its new "Downtown" of office space, with 13 million square feet of office space in over 40 office "communities"."Irvine Spectrum", Irvine Company Office Properties website
/ref> The area also includes apartments, and is immediately adjacent to two other districts that by Garreau's abovementioned criteria would make them part of the edge city: * Irvine Medical and Science Complex to the west, containing

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Irvine Center, Hoag Hospital Irvine and a

Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente (; KP), commonly known simply as Kaiser, is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser ...

hospital * Irvine Technology Center to the east, containing Alton Marketplace (big box center with a

Costco Costco Wholesale Corporation (Trade name, doing business as Costco Wholesale and also known simply as Costco) is an American multinational corporation which operates a chain of membership-only Big-box store, big-box retail stores (warehouse c ...

and

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), the Irvine Transportation Center, with

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and Metrolink train service, and the FivePoint Amphitheater

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{{Villages of Irvine Edge cities in Greater Los Angeles Villages of Irvine, California High-technology business districts in the United States Geography of Orange County, California