College Station had business boom in 2025

According to Michael Ostrowski, chief development officer for College Station, some of the big-ticket items include:

• FERA Diagnostics and Biologicals constructing a 51,855-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing facility;
• Hunton Trane College Station building two 70,000-square-foot facilities for warehousing and distribution;
• Statacorp expanding with an additional 19,185-square-foot building; and
• Fujifilm investing an additional $30 million through a renegotiated agreement

At a meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of the Brazos Valley Council of Governments in November, Ostrowski attributed the economic growth to concerted efforts by the city and a growing population.

“We look at trying to drive primary jobs to our community,” he said. “We are very big into retail and development opportunities. We support a number of tourism, different events, a lot through sports tourism conventions and other leisure events that we bring to the community. But also our department focuses on quality-of-life initiatives really trying to make College Station a wonderful place to live, work and play.”

He said College Station has a high college student population but is still growing at a steady rate.

“In terms of our community growth, we’ve seen really steady growth for a while now. We’re about 132,000 people. Within our community, about 42% of that population are college-age students, so it makes up a pretty big chunk of our population. But historically, we’ve grown at about 2 to 3% every single year,” he said.