A local businessman’s idea of a public private partnership for a $55 to $60 million dollar baseball complex behind the Costco store has interest of the College Station city council.
No official direction was given at Thursday night’s (October 9) council meeting.
But the developer, the managing partner of College Station based construction company ABA Services, could get an answer in the next 30 days.
Thomas Rodgers provided a 45 minute presentation of the project, which includes included a 3,800 seat stadium, eight adjacent artificial turf fields, and a 20,000 square foot building which will contain a 5,000 square foot gym and 15,000 square feet dedicated mostly to batting cages and pitching lanes. The complex will also have hotel style lodging, single family casitas and team housing, RV parking, and a 4,000 square foot restaurant.
Rodgers wants the city to spend $15 to $20 million dollars and donate or lease 80 acres of land. Rodgers says if soil tests allows him to build, he could open the stadium and fields in June of 2027. The city’s chief development officer and city manager expected it would take more time.
The council has to decide if they pursue the public private partnership, how that will impact a smaller stadium and two additional fields at Veterans Park that are already in the design phase are approaching the point to seek construction bids.
The more than two hour discussion also included the possible impact on the Brazos Valley Bombers baseball team, which is in negotiations with the city to play at the Veterans Park stadium in 2027, and the impact on developing a land use plan for College Station’s Midtown area which includes the city owned land where the new complex would be built.
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