College Station city council officially moves a new baseball complex to a third location

This podcast contains comments from the November 13, 2025 College Station city council meeting.The College Station city council officially moves a new baseball complex to a third location.At the council's last meeting (November 13), unanimous approval was given to end design and construction contracts for a stadium and three fields at Veterans Park and to proceed with a stadium and eight fields on city owned property behind the Costco store in the Midtown area.Click HERE to read and download background information about ending the design and construction contracts at Veterans Park.Veterans Park was chosen after the original location at Texas Independence Park was scrapped due to soil quality issues. The city's chief development officer, Michael Ostrowski, told WTAW News that initial soil tests at Midtown looks good but more tests are being done.Ostrowski told the city council he expects the Midtown stadium, which will be built on Midtown Drive near an extension of Corporate Parkway, to open in the spring of 2028.During the same meeting, the council approved a contract to spend up to $194,000 dollars for new signage at the entrances to Veterans Park off Harvey Road and University Drive.Click HERE to read and download background information about new entrance signage at Veterans Park.The council also approved at the same meeting, spending up to $151,000 dollars to repair six ballfields at Bachmann Park that were damaged due to other construction activities. Those repairs will be paid by the revenue the city collects from organizations that use the fields.Click HERE to read and download background information about ballfield repairs at Bachmann Park.