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1. Liberty Station
Liberty Station was once the Naval Training Center, San Diego. It’s now restaurants, shops and art groups.
(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
In its first life, Liberty Station was the Naval Training Center, San Diego, where thousands of recruits learned Navy ways, beginning in 1923. After the Navy shuttered the training complex in 1997, the city teamed with developers to preserve and transform its Spanish Colonial Revival campus, which was influenced by Bertram Goodhue’s trend-setting designs for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park. The project added dozens of restaurants, shops, housing, sports and arts groups — some of which are open at reduced capacity; check before you go.