Welcome to the Liberty Station (San Diego) Vons!

This store has to have one of the most complicated and interesting histories of any grocery store I've visited. Liberty Station is an adaptive reuse development built around the 1920s Naval Training Center San Diego, which closed in the 90s; some buildings were preserved, some heavily modified, and some completely replaced with new development. This store falls into the middle category, being built from four of the original buildings that were connected to form one very odd grocery store sometime in the late 00s. With all the work they did, this could have easily ended up as an unremarkable grocery store with an interesting facade, or Vons could have elected for a completely standard space in the new-build portions of the complex, but instead we ended up with something much stranger (and therefore much more interesting).