College Station City Center

[aggie0083]

Their is a new slide show on the College Station website with pictures of the proposed City Center Downtown Area.

College Station Home Page

"The College Station City Center committee chose a design scheme Thursday for the future seat of municipal government, opting to put community and city buildings along a roundabout in the planned Dartmouth Drive extension.

A three-story, 61,000-square-foot city hall and a 60,000- to 70,000-square-foot performing arts center would be the key components, surrounding a circle turn on the future Dartmouth extension between Krenek Tap Road and Harvey Mitchell Parkway South.

Members of the committee approved further design on the plan, which includes a 15- to 20-acre lake, fronted by a long, winding promenade on the approach to the city hall from Harvey Mitchell. Dartmouth would run over the lake on a bridge or causeway-type structure, architects said. The concept plan for the 95-acre development also includes a 20,000-square-foot community center for recreation, town meeting space and educational activities. Austin-based Bottino Grund Architects will bring a more detailed plan to the committee

[WestGrayGuy]

This is great news for CS. Its always seemed to me that "downtown" College Station was Northgate or A&M. This will give CS a central focus/identity outside of A&M. Plus any new performing arts center will be better than Rudder auditorium.