COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) -The College Station City Council voted 5-1 Thursday to end the Veterans Park baseball field project and move forward with the Midtown Park proposal instead.

“We’re going to end up getting more than we had originally envisioned for less money at a location that is as close to the regional vision as you can get,” said College Station City Council member Mark Smith.

The city has already spent approximately $1.5 million on design and work at Veterans Park. City Manager Bryan Woods said the city anticipates recovering more than $900,000 of that investment if the project moves forward with the same field designs.

“Of that we anticipate that if we were to move the project and it were to remain the same, basically the design of the fields. We’d recuperate a little

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