COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) – As students return to Aggieland and football Saturdays immediately follow, there is big business to be done in the Brazos Valley.
In a survey released Tuesday, small business owners said they were more pleased with the economy than they had been in months, but they are still feeling the pressure of inflation on their profits.
A handful of new businesses are moving into the Bryan–College Station area, ready for the influx of college students. One of the new businesses preparing to open its doors to the public is Pluckers.
Sean Greenberg is co-owner of Pluckers and is excited to build the company’s first pickleball court on the College Station patio.
“There are a lot of really positive economic indicators in this region,” Greenberg said.
Greenberg expects the Brazos Valley’s population to grow rapidly and there will be heavy pedestrian traffic.
“People in college towns go hand in hand, and College Station is a huge, vibrant college town,” Greenberg said.
Joining Pluckers are new businesses such as Tiger Woods-backed mini-golf concept Pop Stroke, institutional anchor bar Buffalo Wing and a new Northgate pizzeria in the old Antonio’s called Famiglia Pizzeria.
Down on Wellborn Road, business owner Alyssa Hensley left corporate America to open the cookie shop Half Baked Goodness.
“Given the number of students here and the activity and how big College Station is and growing,” Hensley said, “I thought it would be a perfect fit.”
Experts say it’s the growth that makes Bryan-College Station an easy choice even in tough economic times.
“We are very excited to go to Aggieland and bring Pluckers to College Station,” Greenberg said.
Other new businesses include Northern Tools in Bryan, scheduled to open August 28. Taco bar La Bodega Baja will soon return to a new location in South College Station.
Here is the schedule:
- Half-baked delicacy: now open
- Plucker: opens on 19 August
- Strokes: opens on August 22nd
- Northern tools: opens on August 28
- Anchor rod: opens soon
- Family Pizzeria: opens soon
- Taco Bar La Bodega Baja: opens soon
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