San Diego California Events. Area focus - Point Loma

City: San Diego
Area Population: 18,505
Elevation: 200 feet above sea level
Distance from downtown SD: 5.4 miles southwest

Cabrillo Recreation Center
3051 Canon Street
San Diego, CA 92106
(619-531-1534) Map

Construction began on the center in 1978 and was completed in 1979. The ballfields were added in 1982. In the 1970's, Italian and Portugese fishermen played soccer on the grounds with hundreds of fans in attendance. Facilities: Basketball and tennis courts, a multi purpose field and softball field, a children's play area, and a community building.

Point Loma Nazarene University
3900 Lomaland Drive
San Diego, CA 92106
(619-849-2200) Map

Point Loma Campus - A liberal arts college located in San Diego, California on the Point Loma oceanfront. The school is affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene. Point Loma Nazarene University offers more than 50 areas of scholarship, and 86% of the faculty have doctorates in their field. In athletics, the university has seven intercollegiate sports for men and six sports for women. The institution has consistently recorded an outstanding performance in speech and debate and its forensic team was ranked the best in the nation in 2007.

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Schools
Point Loma

Cabrillo Elementary School (K-6)
3120 Talbot Street, San Diego, CA 92106
(619-223-7154) Map - Website

Loma Portal Elementary School (K-6)
3341 Browning Street, San Diego, CA 92106
(619-223-1683) Map - Website

High Tech Middle Charter School (4-8/7-8)
2291 Truxtun Road, San Diego, CA 92106
(619-814-5060) Map - Website

High Tech High Charter School (9-12)
2861 Womble Road, San Diego, CA 92106
(619-243-5000) Map - Website

High Tech High International Charter School (9-12)
2855 Farragut Road, San Diego, CA 92106
(619-398-4900) Map - Website

Point Loma Senior High School
2335 Chatsworth Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92106
(619-223-3121) Map - Website

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Point Loma

City of San Diego Community Profile - Peninsula
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San Diego County Business Directory - City of San Diego
San Diego Unified School District
Wikipedia - Point Loma, San Diego, California

Community Profile: Peninsula

The Peninsula Community Planning area encompasses about 4,409 acres (approximately 7 square miles) and is bounded by the Ocean Beach community (split off and founded in 1975) and the Pacific Ocean on the west and south, the San Diego River Flood Control Channel and the Midway community on the north, and San Diego Bay and Port tidelands on the east.

The Peninsula community is a highly urbanized community, comprised of a number of relatively distinct residential neighborhoods including: Ocean Beach Highlands, Point Loma Highlands Loma Alta, Loma Palisades, Loma Portal, Fleetridge, Roseville, Sunset Cliffs, Wooded Area, La Playa, Roseville and the former Naval Training Center renamed Liberty Station.

Also within the Peninsula community are several commercial core areas - Roseville, Voltaire Street Corridor, the Point Loma Village, and Point Loma Nazarene University. In addition, Peninsula includes three major regional recreational resources - Sunset Cliffs, Shelter Island and Cabrillo National Monument with another destination currently under development at Liberty Station.

Several areas were added to the Peninsula study area in the late 1970s to facilitate preparation of the Peninsula Local Coastal Program Land Use Plan. These areas included the Naval Training Center and the Point Loma Naval Complex facilities, former federal lands, Shelter Island and adjacent areas, which are under the jurisdiction of the San Diego Unified Port District, were included in the 1968 Plan.

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Point Loma is a seaside neighborhood of San Diego, California. Geographically it is a hilly peninsula that is bordered on the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, the east by the San Diego Bay and Old Town and the north by the San Diego River. Along with the so-called "Coronado Island" and the Silver Strand, Point Loma separates the San Diego Bay from the Pacific Ocean.

Point Loma has an estimated population of 45,887 (including Ocean Beach), according to the 2000 Census Bureau.

Point Loma is home to the western terminus of Interstate 8, which travels along the Northern end of the peninsula. Rosecrans is the North/South avenue that serves the bayside of Point Loma, while Sunset Cliffs Boulevard is the North/South ocean-side avenue (both streets run parallel to each other in a northeast to southwest route). Sports Arena Boulevard, West Point Loma Boulevard and Nimitz Boulevard are other major traffic pipelines in Point Loma.

Much of the coastal sections, both bay and ocean, are laid out in a grid pattern, with the oceanside blocks larger than the bayside. The grid breaks down as both sides approach the hilly center, which is mainly evident west of Chatsworth Boulevard and east of Catalina and Nimitz Boulevard, where streets have more loopy, curvy patterns.

Point Loma was first discovered by Europeans on September 28, 1542 when Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, departing from Mexico, led an expedition to explore the west coast of what is now the United States. Cabrillo described San Diego Bay as “a very good enclosed port,” and historians believe he probably docked his flagship on Point Loma’s east shore, likely at Ballast Point. Fort Guijarros was constructed there in 1797.

Landmarks

Perhaps the best known landmark in Point Loma is the Old Point Loma Lighthouse, an icon occasionally used to represent the entire city of San Diego. Perched atop the southern point that creates the entrance of the bay with Coronado, the small, two story lighthouse was completed in 1854 and first lit on November 15,1855. At 422 feet above sea level at the entrance of the bay, the seemingly good location for a lighthouse soon proved poor, as low clouds and fog often obscured the beam to ocean-going vessels. On March 23, 1891 the lighthouse ceased to be used for its original purpose, as a new lighthouse was built nearer sea level on the same southern point. The Old Point Loma Lighthouse is now partially open to the public and has been refurbished to its historic 1880’s interior.

The Old Point Loma Lighthouse is located within the Cabrillo National Monument, named after Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese navigator sailing in the service of Spain. Cabrillo was the first European explorer to see San Diego Bay.

Commercial and Military

Point Loma is also home to the San Diego Sports Arena, Point Loma Nazarene University, the US Navy's SPAWAR program, as well as many hotels, unique local businesses, and the former US Navy Recruit Training Command / Naval Training Center, or RTC/NTC San Diego, and has some of the most expensive residential real estate on the West Coast. Also included in the business district, near Ocean Beach, is the Loma Youth Hostel, frequented by travelers from around the world.

Recruit Training Command, San Diego served as training grounds for new Naval recruits. Naval Training Center, San Diego gave the sailors career training. October 1996 these schools were moved to Recruit Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois. The site of the Point Loma facility is no longer a Navy base. Instead, it is now Liberty Station, a 361-acre mixed-use redevelopment project that includes residential, office, retail, educational and civic, arts and cultural districts. Liberty Station, developed by the City of San Diego and The Corky McMillin companies. It also includes a 9-hole golf course, a 46-acre waterfront park and a 100-acre historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. Naval Base Point Loma, at the end of Rosecrans Boulevard and still in operation, is the home of Submarine Squadron 11, several Nuclear Fast Attack Submarines, and historic Fort Rosecrans, a former US Army Coastal Gunnery Facility of the First World War era. Fort Rosecrans includes the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery and the USS Bennington Monument.


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