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A Model Project

Life for a military base after it closes can take many paths. In the case of the former Naval Training Center in Point Loma, which closed in 1997, that path followed the now familiar trend of developing a work/live/play scenario , also referred to as “smart growth.”

In October 2000, San Diego-based builder Corky McMillin Cos. got the green light from the city to proceed with what has become an $850 million mixed-use development, Liberty Station, scheduled for build-out in 2008.

The project now is being touted as a national model of how conversions of military bases should be done.

Liberty Station will include shopping villages and restaurants; 125 acres of parks, open space and a boat channel; the 28-acre civic, arts and cultural district dubbed NTC Promenade; 349 homes; and a 22-acre educational campus anchored by High Tech High.

Its main detractor, the Save Our NTC group, headed by longtime foe John McNab, continues to rail against the project as a waste of historic and natural resources.

The star-crossed Liberty Station has had its share of setbacks and controversy, but as one of its shepherds proclaimed recently, “It might look like we’re making sausage here, but we have got a gourmet breakfast going.”


Click on the links for full coverage:


Ex-Navy Base Goes for Greatness


Status of Various Parts of the Project


Promenade to Be Hub For High-Tech, Arts, Science


S.D. Organization Rails Against Waterfront Plan

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