Press release by the City of Georgetown
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS – Oct. 30, 2025 – In partnership with the Texas Municipal League (TML), the Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool (TML Risk Pool) – the nation’s first municipal risk pool providing risk financing and loss prevention services to cities throughout Texas since 1974 – has chosen downtown Georgetown as the location for their new headquarters and home to the Texas Municipal Center. TML Risk Pool will acquire the former Wesleyan building at 205 E. University Avenue and complete a full renovation and revitalization of the site, which sits three blocks from Georgetown’s most beautiful town square in Texas.
“TML Risk Pool has been a trusted resource for communities throughout Texas for the past five decades,” said Bert Lumbreras, Chair of the Board for the TML Risk Pool. “The TML Risk Pool Board of Trustees’ decision to house our Texas Municipal Center in a city with the long and deep history of Georgetown was based on a commitment to continuing our critical work in serving city’s risk needs over the next five decades and being an employer of choice to ensure we’re providing excellent service to our member cities.”
The current Texas Municipal Center building, located at 1821 Rutherford Lane in Austin, has served as home base to TML and the TML Risk Pool for three decades, but a lot has changed over that time – including remote schedules, new technology, and more. The new TMC will address those changes by embracing flex space, wellness-focused design, sustainability, and technology-forward meeting areas. There will be places for collaboration and focus, for board business, and for casual connection.
“After a long process that included staff input, numerous meetings of a joint Visioning Committee composed of representatives from the TML and TML Risk Pool boards, and the evaluation of numerous sites, the board chose the new location because it fits who we are now and who we plan to be for the next 40 years,” said Lumbreras. “In the end, the new TMC will be more than a building. It will be a statement. It will say: we are building for the future. We value people. We value progress. And we value the local officials and staff who make Texas cities run.”
TML Risk Pool has already begun working through the City’s development process and engaging with nearby residents. An initial review of the concept by the City’s Historic and Architectural Review Committee has been successfully completed, with the next step being to update the zoning on the site. Design will continue concurrently with these processes, followed by construction. Completion and move-in to the new Texas Municipal Center is scheduled for 2029.
The location has a rich history of service to the community that will continue with the TMC project. Prior to construction of the current building on the site, it was home to a City park. Then in 1962, the Wesleyan Retirement Home was constructed as the first in the city to provide for the aging. Now, as the new Texas Municipal Center, it will serve as the home of TML and the Risk Pool.
“We couldn’t be more excited about the decision for TML and the Risk Pool to move their headquarters to beautiful downtown Georgetown,” Georgetown Mayor Josh Schroeder said. “I believe this will only strengthen their ability to do the critical work they do in serving communities across the great state of Texas. We look forward to also continuing discussions with the risk pool on a partnership to build the next parking garage in downtown Georgetown and meeting space to serve the needs of the TML and our local community.”
Although incentives are not a part of this announcement, the City and TML Risk Pool are in active discussions about a partnership to share in costs for a new public parking garage and meeting space to be located at the City’s existing parking lot between Ninth and 10th Street and Main and Church Street. This would be the City’s second public garage downtown, with the first set to open to the public on November 21. In addition to advancing the next garage, the project will also provide an opportunity to construct the first phase of the Ninth Street Art Walk. Both are priority projects in the City’s Downtown Master Plan.
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