This podcast contains comments from the October 23, 2025 College Station city council meeting.The College Station city council moves to a third location to build more baseball facilities.The council at Thursday's meeting (October 23) voted 5-1 to pursue negotiations for a public private partnership with a developer who wants to build a complex on city owned land behind the Costco store in the Midtown district.The proposal from a local company called Southern Roots includes among other things a 3,800 seat stadium and eight adjacent fields.Click HERE to read and download the Southern Roots proposal that was made at the October 9, 2025 College Station council meeting.The council's motion also put a pause on adding a stadium and two fields at Veterans Park, which has been in the design phase. The Veterans Park location was chosen after the council in 2023 cancelled the construction of ballfields at Texas Independence Park due to soil quality issues.Another component of the council motion also called for the remaining city owned land in the Midtown Business Park that won't be used for baseball to be preserved for business uses.The no vote came from David White, who was able to get any support for building a stadium and two additional fields at Veterans Park. Absent from the meeting was Scott Shafer.White was also the lone vote against rejecting a $3.66 million dollar contract to do drainage work at Veterans Park that would have started preparing the site to build the stadium and two fields.Click HERE to read and download information about the $3.66 million dollar contract that was rejected.A statement was read during the meeting from a co-owner of the Brazos Valley Bombers, which has been negotiating with the city to play at the Veterans Park stadium. The statement from Uri Geva, read by city manager Bryan Woods, said "In order to ensure the best long term outcome for stakeholders, the city, its citizens, the youth sports community and the Bombers, we believe that additional time is essential (to develop more fields at Veterans Park). We fully support proceeding with the tributary work at Veterans Park (referring to the $3.66 million dollar contract to prepare the site that was rejected by a 5-1 council vote), as that infrastructure will be necessary regardless of whether the site ultimately supports the current three field plan or a future expanded build. Moving forward with this phase allows city staff and Midtown baseball developers the time needed to deliver an optimal data driven solution without closing the door on a potential 2027 opening at Veterans Park. Should the opportunity to play at either Midtown or Veterans extend to 2028 as previously discussed with city staff, we are confident College Station will explore alternative options including granting support to temporary access to existing 2,000 plus seat facilities in the Aggieland area. We trust our partners at the city of College Station as we plan for a permanent home for the Bombers for decades to come."

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