The College Station City Council has called a special meeting for 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, and nearly the entire agenda is reserved for closed-door discussion of business deals and city land.
The agenda, posted Monday, lists four economic development agreements the council may deliberate in executive session under the Texas Open Meetings Act provision that covers incentive negotiations with business prospects:
- an agreement for a development in the Midtown Business Park tied to baseball fields
- an agreement covering land generally between the Pebble Creek and Southern Pointe subdivisions
- an agreement for a development in the BioCorridor
- an agreement for a development near the intersection of I&GN Road and South Dowling Road
The council may also talk privately about real estate: roughly 8 acres at 1508 Harvey Road, and property inside the Midtown Business Park. The state allows those talks to be closed when discussing them in public would hurt the city's bargaining position with another party.
The agenda does not name the companies or developers involved, and it gives no dollar figures. Under state law, any final action or vote that follows the private discussion has to happen in open session. The meeting is in the council chambers at City Hall, 1101 Texas Ave.
The Midtown ballpark backdrop
The baseball item follows an earlier council vote. KXXV reported Sept. 3 that the council had approved The Station, a planned 100-acre sports and hospitality complex east of Midtown Drive.
The station said the plans call for nine baseball fields plus a championship stadium that would be home to the Brazos Valley Bombers, and that the city was still negotiating terms while aiming for a 2028 opening.
