College Station, Texas recent comments:

To subjectively say something, I was very disappointed in their international foods section.

For about twenty years, from the early 1960s through the early 1980s, this 2.55 acre tract was the location of the offices, shop, maintenance and storage areas for Area Progress Corporation and Tiller Corporation, the land development companies owned by William D. Fitch. The Fitch home was the house at 1712 Glade Street, immediately adjacent to this tract. During the late 1980s, the tract was donated to the Brazos Valley Masonic Library & Museum Association and was intended to be the home of a 5,000 Masonic library and museum that would create practically no traffic during the day, and maybe as many as 25 to 30 cars on one night each week between the hours of 5:30 and 9:00 PM. However, during a public hearing before the City Planning & Zoning Committee, local neighbors, primarily on Laura Lane, objected strenuously against any other use but R-1 Residential. Their objections were that a Library & Museum would be a nuisance that created too much traffic and would be a noise and safety hazard. City staff pointed out that a residential cul-de-sac with small homes, many of which would turn into rent property occupied by college students, would create more noise and traffic. But this reasoning did not dissuade the local residents from their objections. Nevertheless, a majority of the Planning & Zoning Commission, realizing that a small, quiet library would be the best use of the property, voted in favor of granting the Library & Museum's request (dissenting votes were cast by Nancy Sawtell and one other). However, due to local neighborhood opposition, the Board Members of the Masonic Library & Museum decided to locate their building elsewhere. As a result, the land was eventually developed into a cul-de-sac of fifteen (15) two-story homes. If each home has two cars, then this cul-de-sac generates a minimum of about seventy-five entrances or exits of vehicles each day. That is far more than a small Masonic library would have produced. The library that would have been built here is now situated on Longmire Drive, near Rock Prairie.

I believe the name of this park is "Brothers Pond Park," unless its been changed by the City of College Station. It is named for the pond near Brothers Boulevard. The street and the pond were named by the developer William D. Fitch, who named them for his two sons, Todd and Austin. In the early 1970s, when the property was undeveloped, the two brothers used to drive their jeep from the Fitch family home at the end of Glade Street, across Bee Creek and FM 2818 and into what was called the old "Deacon property." They followed the dirt road to their treehouse. When the old dirt road was paved, Mr. Fitch named it "Brothers Boulevard."

I call it "Bacteria Lagoon"...

They customize and maintain the computers in my high school.

Interface Ecology Lab, 9th floor [http://ecologylab.net]

Hah. The (Former) Woodlands of College Station.

Was open till at least the mid 90s

that should be fewer advertisements, not 'less'

Formerly the old Tom's BBQ location.

I remember eating here as a kid after bonfire and you could watch it burn... sad to loose the tradition, but worse to loose those 12 ags!

The best in the commons area!

On the spot of the old University Police building.

mau stays here.

I think this is the wind turbine simulator building.

It had a big fire in the early 1990s.

You would never know it, but the spot where this is used to be a teeny-tiny Shell located in the parking lot.

The Woodlands? They cut all the trees down.

Sorry, but this is Stein Mart.