We all know South College Station is the current "it" area, but what area in the Bryan-College Station Metro do you guys see becoming the new "it" area?

I'm sure South College Station will continue to prosper well into the future, but Brazos County has plenty of other areas where I could see major growth.

Retail, Restaurants, Hotels, Housing, Offices, Entertainment, Etc.

Will it be:
East College Station?
West College Station?
East Bryan?
West Bryan?
North Bryan?
Another area?
Or more than one area?

AggieBaseball06 said:

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West B/CS... With the build up of the Rellis campus, you'll start to see businesses pop up to serve the folks out that way. More housing well develop as well as some hotels for guests visiting that campus. By 2030-2035, the airport will be in the center of town.

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West. I also expect to growth along FM 60 toward Snook, and along FM 50 between FM 60 and Hwy 21. TxDOT's having widened FM 60 to 4 lanes and the relatively low cost of land in the area should be a draw for new development.

Agree - with the UP rail yard bringing around 500 jobs to Mumford area along 50, I expect the stretch between there and Rellis to develop with both residential and retail.

Not west. 60 is bad enough as it is with the truck traffic and folks clogging up the lanes going 10 under the speed limit.

rsa said:

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AggieBaseball06 said:

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West B/CS... With the build up of the Rellis campus, you'll start to see businesses pop up to serve the folks out that way. More housing well develop as well as some hotels for guests visiting that campus. By 2030-2035, the airport will be in the center of town.

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West. I also expect to growth along FM 60 toward Snook, and along FM 50 between FM 60 and Hwy 21. TxDOT's having widened FM 60 to 4 lanes and the relatively low cost of land in the area should be a draw for new development.

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I guess that depends on your version of "low cost land". We have seen Snook area land priced (and sold) for $11-12k/acre, for raw land (needing electricity and water).

Maybe the flat farmland still goes for less, but that's not as marketable to development.

11-12k per acre isn't much for commercial land and you can subdivide and put 3-4 homes on an acre

$11K-12K per acre is pretty cheap compared to what we're paying inside BCS.

Zero infrastructure in the hinterlands. Makes development more challenging.

CoB can't even provide services to many of their annexed areas. Brazos bottom even fewer options.

I can easily see intense mixed use development along Riverside Parkway and Raymond Stotzer between main campus, RELLIS, Easterwood and the Health Science Center. Research Park is supposed to grow exponentially, the Health Science Center has a massive teaching hospital complex in its master plan as well as many more academic and research buildings, things may or may not happen with the Biocorridor, and RELLIS has an almost ridiculous amount of planned and proposed academic and research buildings. These will all almost undoubtedly spur restaurant, hotel, retail, and residential growth along 47, especially with the increase in traffic from RELLIS to the main campus area.

Amateur real estate speculator here. I would say Greens Prairie Road E. to Hwy 30, then over toward Iola.

Buford T. Justice said:

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Amateur real estate speculator here. I would say Greens Prairie Road E. to Hwy 30, then over toward Iola.

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Isn't all of this area beyond Hwy 30 toward Iola in the BISD?

Bryanisbest said:

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Buford T. Justice said:

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Amateur real estate speculator here. I would say Greens Prairie Road E. to Hwy 30, then over toward Iola.

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Isn't all of this area beyond Hwy 30 toward Iola in the BISD?

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All the way to the Navasota River.