College Station City Council members will get their first public walk-through Monday of the economic development agreement behind The Station, the baseball and softball complex planned for the Midtown Business Park.
The deal with The Station Baseball LLC is listed as a workshop item for the Nov. 16 meeting. A staff summary says the session will cover the agreement's key terms and give council members a chance to weigh in, and that a formal vote is expected at the Nov. 23 council meeting.
No draft agreement or term sheet was attached to the posted agenda, so the size of any incentive, and who pays for what, had not been made public as of Thursday.
Recent council discussion of the agreement has happened behind closed doors. Minutes of the Oct. 22 meeting show that after an executive session on incentive deals, the council told staff to finalize the agreement with The Station Baseball and return it at a later workshop for public discussion.
The council returned to the subject behind closed doors Nov. 6 and took no action, according to minutes of that special meeting. The baseball-fields deal is listed again for Monday's executive session, along with property in the Midtown Business Park, ahead of the public workshop.
The project itself cleared the council in September. KXXV reported then that council members approved The Station as a 100-acre sports and hospitality development east of Midtown Drive with nine ballfields plus a championship stadium that would be home to the Brazos Valley Bombers, and that the city hoped to see it open in 2028.
Michael Ostrowski, the city's chief development officer, is the staff sponsor of Monday's item. The executive session starts at 3 p.m. at City Hall, 1101 Texas Ave., and the open meeting is set to resume no earlier than 6 p.m.
