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The College Station City Council has approved the final steps allowing Scott & White to proceed with building a new hospital and clinic.
Nearly 100 acres of land has been set aside at the southeast corner of Rock Prairie and Highway 6, where a $17 million dollar clinic will be built first, followed by a $90 million dollar hospital.
Groundbreaking is projected for January and both are supposed to open in the next two years.
In the next five years, Scott & White will hire over 610 new employees, generating an additional $39 million dollars of payroll by 2016.
Scott & White is spending nearly $7 million dollars to build streets and almost all city utilities and is donating two acres of land for a future city water tower.
It was the city paying $1.5 million for sewer improvements that led Councilman Jess Fields to vote no.
Comments from Jess Fields.
Councilman Dennis Maloney said that was an expense the city would have to pay regardless of Scott & White’s project.
Comments from Dennis Maloney.
While voting yes, Councilwoman Jana McMillan commended Fields for sticking up for his constituents.
Comments from Jana McMillan.
Scott & White will reserve land around the perimeter of their acreage for future development along Rock Prairie and the freeway frontage road.