Readers' Choice: Nominate the Best Shopping Center

Editor's Note: Nominations are now closed for this category.

Every city seems to have one. It's a place where everyone seems to to gravitate to get their shopping done.

It's one of those convenient places on the way home, or it's the place you don't mind going out of the way for.

It's the best shopping center in town.

And Patch wants to find out what's considered the best shopping center in Rancho Santa Margarita.

We'll be taking nominations until July 9, and then we'll launch the election for the Patch Readers Choice Awards.

One of the things we want to know is where's the best place to find what you're looking for and maybe grab a bit to eat (if that's important to you). Maybe your favorite center is out of the way, like Dove Canyon Plaza, where people seem to be extra nice because they know they're hard to find? Or maybe it's where you can get virtually anything, like the Lowe's center which includes the home improvement warehouse as well as Sears appliances, a Big Lots with a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Grocery on the way.

Tell us why you like a particular shopping area in Rancho Santa Margarita, Las Flores or Trabuco Canyon, and we'll be sure to include it in our poll. And then, when it comes time, you can vote with your mouse.

And when the voting is done, youll have a guide to the best of Rancho Santa Margarita without costing you a dime. How's that for a shopper's delight?