The new facility is expected to open in the spring of 2012 and will be available for qualified enlisted Sailors E-4 and below that are permanently assigned to ships in order to improve their overall quality of life.
“The need for a facility such as this is so that Sailors when they pull into port have somewhere to live and relax,” said Capt. Yancy Lindsey, commanding officer of Naval Base Coronado. “This is a brand new facility with state of the art amenities to raise the morale of our Sailors coming home.”
The project is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; the act was established to help jumpstart the economy providing jobs and giving more than 75 per cent of its contracts to small businesses in the area.
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