Gilroy roller-skating business struggles to expand

One South County city and a family-owned skate rink are at odds over the business attempts to expand its operation. Mikey Gaeta and Yanessa Cruz, husband-and-wife owners of Skater Things Clubhouse in Gilroy, said their efforts to move into a larger facility a block south of their current location at 7050 Monterey Road are fading due to the lack of communication with the city. But city officials insist they’ve been fully transparent throughout the process, even after learning the owners were operating their business without any of the required approvals. I ve never actually had a sit down meeting with anybody in the city about (our new location at) 6920 Monterey (Road), Gaeta told San José Spotlight. We went down to the city four times to get some answers. City spokesperson Rachelle Bedell said Skater Things applied for a business license application and included a statement about how the facility would operate. It would be a temporary site for prescheduled roller-skating instructi