2008 Woodie Awards
Kassing, Wolff agree stadium deal is dead
Kyle Hansen
Issue date: 4/23/07 Section: News
"We will always look for ways to improve where we are, but we still have a facility to play in," he said.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed also said Friday that the city hopes to continue to work with the university in the South Campus area.
"We will do a lot of things together in South Campus," he said, "it just appears that a new stadium is not going to be part of it."
Reed also said that the city has money set aside to build community soccer fields in the area.
Tom Hastings, the associate athletic director for media relations, said that there has been talk of making further improvements to the stadium, but at this point nothing is in the planning stages.
"I think that everyone would like to have a new stadium, but at what cost?" he said.
"The refurbishment of Spartan Stadium is probably more realistic than building a new stadium," Hastings said.
David Alioto, the executive vice president of Earthquakes soccer, said that the group is still optimistic about building a new stadium in the area, although he would not say it has to be in San Jose.
"We have other options that we are looking at," Alioto said. "We are very optimistic that we are going to bring soccer back to the South Bay."
Alioto said that both the soccer team and SJSU might be better off without a new, shared stadium.
"Some deals are not good for either side," he said. "I think that might have been the case here."
Wolff, who is also the co-owner of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, has negotiated the rights to start a new Major League Soccer team, to be called the Earthquakes, in the Bay Area to replace the Earthquake team that San Jose lost in 2005.
The owners of the old Earthquake team complained that the existing Spartan Stadium did not meet their needs and subsequently moved the team to Houston.
Wolff hoped to build a new stadium that would be a joint soccer and SJSU football facility adjacent to the existing stadium to take advantage of the large amount of available land already owned by the university.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed also said Friday that the city hopes to continue to work with the university in the South Campus area.
"We will do a lot of things together in South Campus," he said, "it just appears that a new stadium is not going to be part of it."
Reed also said that the city has money set aside to build community soccer fields in the area.
Tom Hastings, the associate athletic director for media relations, said that there has been talk of making further improvements to the stadium, but at this point nothing is in the planning stages.
"I think that everyone would like to have a new stadium, but at what cost?" he said.
"The refurbishment of Spartan Stadium is probably more realistic than building a new stadium," Hastings said.
David Alioto, the executive vice president of Earthquakes soccer, said that the group is still optimistic about building a new stadium in the area, although he would not say it has to be in San Jose.
"We have other options that we are looking at," Alioto said. "We are very optimistic that we are going to bring soccer back to the South Bay."
Alioto said that both the soccer team and SJSU might be better off without a new, shared stadium.
"Some deals are not good for either side," he said. "I think that might have been the case here."
Wolff, who is also the co-owner of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, has negotiated the rights to start a new Major League Soccer team, to be called the Earthquakes, in the Bay Area to replace the Earthquake team that San Jose lost in 2005.
The owners of the old Earthquake team complained that the existing Spartan Stadium did not meet their needs and subsequently moved the team to Houston.
Wolff hoped to build a new stadium that would be a joint soccer and SJSU football facility adjacent to the existing stadium to take advantage of the large amount of available land already owned by the university.
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