Morgan Hill downtown gourmets will need to wait a little longer for Willard Hicks, Tac-Oh, Mo’s and Opa! to open. Restaurant owner Molly Adams has delayed the opening of Willard Hicks and Tac-Oh, but vowed in an email that the restaurants would open this summer.
“All locations will open during the summer of 2018, but there are many factors still affecting the firm opening dates at this time,” Adams said in an email Monday. “There are many moving parts and lots of details to get in place before opening the restaurants. Sometimes that requires slowing down. As mentioned before, all of the locations will open in the summer of 2018.”
The restaurants are slated to open in two buildings under construction at Monterey Road and Third Street in downtown Morgan Hill. Developer Imwalle Properties is currently the owner of the project, but the northern building is up for sale.
The opening dates for Willard Hicks and Tac-Oh, in the southern building under construction next to Trail Dust BBQ had previously been estimated to coincide with the AMGEN Tour of California passage through Morgan Hill on May 16.
Opa! and Mo’s, in the building on the corner at Monterey and Third, was not expected to open until June. Now, all are expected to open their doors in the summer, even if Imwalle Properties has the Mo’s/Opa! building up for sale.
Razumich clarified that any sale of the building will not impact the 10-year leases all four restaurants have signed for their new homes in Morgan Hill.
“For us, more often than not when we do developments we buy the land, do the entitlements (and) construction, take the risk and create a stabilized investment product, and that’s when we end up selling it,” Razumich said. “That’s how we earn our living. However, when you sign a lease, you can’t change that. It doesn’t matter if the ownership changes hands 100 times. All four restaurants signed 10-year leases at the location, and nothing can change that.”
