Bryan residents had the opportunity on April 28 to weigh in on how the city should grow over the next two decades during Bryan's 2026 Comprehensive Plan open house.

The interactive meeting at Phillips Event Center invited the community to take a look at early planning concepts and leave feedback.

What you need to know: The comprehensive plan serves as the city's long-term roadmap, guiding decisions about land use, mobility, parks, housing, economic growth and public services for the next 10-20 years. The current plan was adopted 10 years ago.

What residents are saying: Ahead of the open house, more than 1,000 residents participated in an online survey. Results from that survey identified Bryan's strengths as affordability, diversity, economic opportunity and downtown amenities.

Common areas residents said needed improvement:

• Pedestrian and bicycle safety
• Redevelopment using existing facilities and infrastructure
• Removal of medians and a proposed loop
• Housing options
• Family-friendly entertainment options

Heavy construction continues along Lincoln Avenue in College Station as crews work to complete a long-running roadway rehabilitation project between Texas Avenue and University Drive.

About the project: The project includes rebuilding the roadway with new concrete pavement and replacing aging water, wastewater and storm sewer infrastructure. It also adds shared-use paths on both sides of the street to improve bicycle and pedestrian connectivity.

What's happening: College Station announced the final phase of Lincoln Avenue's rehabilitation April 13, and that the thoroughfare would be closed from Grand Oaks Circle to University Drive.

Before you go: Lincoln Avenue remains open from Grand Oaks Circle to Texas Avenue with intermittent single-lane closures as work continues on shared-use paths. There is no access to Lincoln Avenue from University Drive at this time.

A Texas A&M University student organization has partnered with YouTube personality Jimmy Donaldson, known best as "MrBeast," to expand access to medical care in underserved communities around the world.

How we got here: BUILD, a student-run nonprofit founded in 2013, converts shipping containers into portable medical clinics that are deployed all over. As of 2026, the organization has 60 Texas Aggie Medical Clinics, mostly across Texas and also in developing countries.

What's happening: The organization recently announced that Beast Philanthropy would help fund the construction of four additional clinics.
New clinics will be placed in communities in Massachusetts, Kenya, Nigeria and Ukraine. Houston-based nonprofit Medical Bridges has promised to supply the clinics with repurposed medical equipment before being shipped out.

What they're saying: BUILD officials say the program provides both humanitarian impact and hands-on learning opportunities for participants.
"I think BUILD is really the essence of building the new generation up to help solve these problems, solve these crazy issues that people are dealing with," BUILD's CFO Chris Permetti said in the release.

Camp Mystic, the Texas Hill Country camp where 28 people died in catastrophic flooding last summer, announced April 30 that it will not welcome campers this summer.

The background: The decision comes nearly 10 months after 25 young campers, two teenage counselors and the camp’s executive director, Dick Eastland, died as the Guadalupe River camp flooded July 4. Camp Mystic’s owners had planned to open a secondary campsite called Cypress Lake in late May, but backed down at the urging of flood victims’ families and state lawmakers.

What's happening: A spokesperson for the Department of State Health Services, which licenses youth camps, confirmed to Community Impact that Camp Mystic had withdrawn its application to operate in summer 2026. 

In a statement, Camp Mystic officials said they did not want to “unintentionally effect further harm” on flood victims and their families.

"We also recognize that over 800 girls want to return to Camp Mystic Cypress Lake this summer," they wrote. "Our special bond with our Camp Mystic families does not change or end with the announcement."