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Brazos County approves lease to assume control of downtown parking garage from transit district
Summary
On Jan. 14, 2025, the Brazos County Commissioners Court voted to accept a lease from the Brazos Transit District that transfers maintenance responsibility and effective control of a downtown parking garage and adjacent offices to the county, with the property expected to fully revert to county ownership under the original deed in later decades.
Brazos County Commissioners Court voted Jan. 14 to accept a lease that transfers operational control and maintenance responsibility for a downtown parking garage and adjacent office space from the Brazos Transit District to the county.
The move, approved by motion and second during the court’s regular meeting, begins a lease for a nominal $1 per year and is intended to ensure county control of employee and juror parking, and of office space that houses county services including adult probation. The garage had been built on county-donated land using federal grant funding; under the original deed the property is scheduled to revert to county ownership in coming decades.
Judge Dwight Peters said the county originally deeded the land so the transit district could secure grant funding to build the garage, and that returning operational control to the…
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