The College Station city council awards a contract to study the feasibility of a convention center.
The consultant will receive up to $80,000 dollars if the council decides to do both phases of the study.
The breakdown was explained by the city’s tourism manager Jeremiah Cook in response to a question from councilman Bob Yancy.
The first phase, which is expected to take eight weeks to complete, includes interviewing local stakeholders, collecting information about hotels and convention business here and in other cities, and compile local convention and meeting data from the last seven years.
If the council decides to continue, the second phase includes evaluating sites and determining a convention center’s feasibility, financing, economic impact, and return on investment.
The decision whether to proceed with the study’s second phase will be made with three new council members following the November general election.
The feasibility study is the latest step since the council brought up the idea of a convention center in May of 2023.
Click below to hear College Station councilman Bob Yancy’s question that was answered by the city’s tourism manager, Jeremiah Cook: