Bryan city council to consider a tax abatement agreement with a German based company

This podcast contains comments from Bryan mayor Bobby Gutierrez's visit on WTAW's The Infomaniacs on December 16, 2025.The January regular meeting of the Bryan city council will include consideration of giving property tax breaks to an international company for a more than $65 million dollar project.Click HERE to read and download the notice from the city of Bryan's website.A city spokeswoman confirms to WTAW News that German based Messer corporation is the company that city documents say wants to build production facilities that separate air into its basic components.Messer's website says the 125 year old company is the largest privately held industrial gas business in the world and a leading industrial and medical gas company on four continents.Click HERE to read and download information from the Messer Americas website.The location of the proposed facility is what the council recently established as Tax Reinvestment Zone #34. The location is inside the Carrabba industrial park that is east of the freeway, north of Highway 21, and south of Tabor Road.Click HERE to read and download information about the city of Bryan's Tax Reinvestment Zone #34.Bryan mayor Bobby Gutierrez was asked about the proposed tax abatement on WTAW's Infomaniacs. He said "over a ten year period they're not going to pay the full amount of the taxes" and we (the city) get this extra revenue that we didn't have before. So would you rather have a million dollars over five years and then maybe two million dollars in the next five dollars for that whole thing or would you rather have zero and they don't come and we don't get any jobs and we don't get any quality of life?"