Santa Clara County and the San Jose Earthquakes have entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement to explore the possibility of a long-term lease for a soccer training complex and practice fields at the county fairgrounds.

County officials said the plan would be to lease nearly 15 acres of the fairgrounds property to the Earthquakes for facilities for their professional team that is part of the Major League Soccer league, as well as for practice fields and a training site for the team’s Earthquakes Academy youth program.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.