The public auction has a minimum starting bid of $36 million. If the property sells—and city officials are confident it will—the Roots could try to negotiate a lease with the new owners, but there’s no guarantee that the new owners will be interested in keeping the site as is.
Hodul emphasized that the club was very grateful to the city and county for making the building available in the first place. The Roots first signed their lease at the end of 2021, and the team trained at the otherwise empty facility in 2022. Recently, they extended their lease through 2023. Larry Gallegos, a program manager with Oakland’s office of economic and workforce development, said the city went through California’s Surplus Lands Act process prior to planning the auction. As part of that process, the old training facility was offered to public agencies and affordable housing developments.The city is letting Alameda County, which could not be reached for comment, oversee the public auction process.
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