page_title: Liberty Station, San Diego
section_title: Hotel district
hierarchical_section_title: Liberty Station, San Diego / Hotel district
caption_attribution_description: English: The USS Recruit (TDE-1) at Liberty Station (Formerly Naval Training Center), San Diego - This mockup was used in the training of numerous recruits going through bootcamp. I myself did time on this ship in 1970.
context_page_description: Liberty Station is a mixed-use development in San Diego, California, on the site of the former Naval Training Center San Diego. It is located in the Point Loma community of San Diego. It has a waterfront location, on a boat channel off of San Diego Bay, just west of the San Diego Airport and a few miles north of Downtown San Diego. The 361-acre project includes several distinct districts: a retail and commercial district, a promenade focused on nonprofit activities, an educational district, a residential district, a hotel district, an office district, and a park/open space area along the boat channel.
  The Naval Training Center site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and many of the individual structures are designated as historic by the city of San Diego. Dozens of the historical buildings are being adapted for stores, offices, schools, and other purposes.
context_section_description: The hotel district of Liberty Station is designated for several hotels, currently including a Homewood Suites by Hilton and a Courtyard by Marriott. A large resort hotel by Nickelodeon is on the drawing boards. The hotel district also contains the historic training structure USS Recruit (TDE-1). Formerly a commissioned "non-ship" of the U.S. Navy, this is a two-thirds scale model of a Navy frigate built right into the ground. She was used to teach shipboard procedures to recruits and was affectionately nicknamed the USS Neversail. She is currently unoccupied but is slated to become a museum at some time in the future. She is visible from North Harbor Drive.
caption: USS Recruit (TDE-1) in the Hotel District of Liberty Station. 32°43′42″N 117°12′59″W﻿ / ﻿32.72847°N 117.21632°W﻿ / 32.72847; -117.21632
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