College Station adopted a master plan for the 150-acre Veterans Park that focuses on enhanced entry monuments, wayfinding signage, landscape and accessibility improvements, and then approved a separate concept plan to develop three artificial-turf baseball fields and related amenities on the park's open west acreage.
Parks staff presented a list of master-plan elements ranging from new monument signs at the University and Harvey entrances, landscaping and roundabout improvements, cooling/shade structures, pedestrian wayfinding and improved access to the Brazos Valley Veterans Memorial, plus improvements to bridges and paver work on the American Mile. Staff said the city has obtained DoD approval for display of military branch insignia proposed for the park's entrance monuments.
On the related baseball-fields concept, staff and a steering committee recommended three artificial-turf fields with a fenced entry (ticketing) plaza, a championship field with fixed seating for about 1,500 and a total of roughly 2,500 seats including grass berms and picnic decks, concessions, covered batting cages and a warm-up turf area. The layout anticipates lights and digital/video scoreboards on the feature field and digital boards on the secondary fields. The plan also shows a new parking lot with about 290 spaces and food-truck power pedestals at the entry plaza to support tournaments.
Council approved the Veterans Park master plan and the baseball fields concept at the workshop. Staff said the project will be phased over multiple years and that FY2026 budget items include $275,000 for wayfinding signage and $460,000 for the monument sign work; staff will return with schematic design and construction documents on an expedited schedule to meet an intended 2027 opening for the fields.