San Jose Earthquakes officials are looking to locate their team
training center at the site of the Golden Oak Restaurant on Condit
Road in Morgan Hill.
San Jose Earthquakes officials are looking to locate their team training center at the site of the Golden Oak Restaurant on Condit Road in Morgan Hill.
The Earthquakes submitted an application to the city to locate the Major League Soccer team’s training center at 16695 Condit, where the Golden Oak was opened for more than 20 years.
“The Earthquakes Training Center will include a professional practice field developed to MLS league standards,” San Jose Earthquakes partner Keith Wolff wrote in a letter to City Manager Ed Tewes Nov. 5.
According to the letter, the center would be used year-round and provide tours to youth groups and other community organizations. Wolff requested a joint meeting with the city, the California Youth Soccer Association and the Earthquakes development team to discuss the “potential benefits to all parties involved.”
The city’s desire to reduce the number of soccer fields at the Soccer Complex across the street and the relocation of the soccer association to a 171-acre site in San Benito County would not impact Earthquakes officials’ desire to locate the training center in Morgan Hill, Wolff wrote.
The Golden Oak Restaurant closed recently after at least a year of financial troubles, according to several Morgan Hill Rotary Club members. The Rotary Club held a weekly luncheon at the Golden Oak for years until word of financial issues reached them and a new site for the luncheon was sought.
The Rotary Club now meets at the Community & Cultural Center.
Several calls to Golden Oak Restaurant owner Ken Harlan were not returned Friday.
