Walk in from Blue Springs Boulevard and the first thing you reach is the stage. A synthetic turf lawn spreads out in front of it, and private cabanas line both sides, as the Williamson County Sun described the layout during construction this fall. The Sun called it "Georgetown's next place to eat, drink, watch the game, a show or play pickleball." That's a long list, and the order matters.
The Junction is a dining hall with a lawn and a stage, and the pickleball courts are a side attraction. Georgetown-based Cooley Capital Cos. is building the project at 210 Blue Springs Blvd., and Community Impact reported on Oct. 1 that it was "approaching a November opening," according to partner Matt Marshall. The way the space is divided shows it. For a household in The Woods, out near Lake Georgetown and Ronald Reagan Boulevard, that changes the question from "Do we play pickleball?" to "Is this our new Tuesday dinner?"
At the November 2025 groundbreaking, Marshall laid out the program for Community Impact. Nearly 60,000 square feet of combined indoor and outdoor space breaks down like this:
| Feature | Planned size or count |
|---|---|
| Restaurants | Five at groundbreaking |
| Full-service bars | Three |
| Grand dining hall | 5,700 square feet |
| Covered decks and patios | 9,000 square feet |
| Pickleball courts | Three |
| Live music stage | One, on the grand lawn |
| LED screens | Several, each 25 feet |
| Extras | Private cabanas, terraced synthetic turf |
Covered decks and patios alone take up more square footage than the dining hall. Add the bars, the lawn and the screens, and most of the plan is built for sitting down with food and a drink. Three courts can host a dozen players at a time. The dining hall, patios and lawn are sized for a crowd that came to eat and stay a while.
A separate 30,000 square feet across three buildings is set aside for flexible office space. At the groundbreaking, Community Impact reported that Austin-based Texas Tint was the first office tenant. Offices next door bring a weekday lunch crowd, and that's one more sign the place was planned around the whole week, not just Saturday night.
The kitchens are what decide whether a food hall becomes a regular stop. By October, Community Impact named these food concepts for the dining space:
Who runs the hall matters as much as who cooks in it. The Williamson County Sun reported that the main dining hall will be operated by restaurateurs who previously worked with Mexican Sugar, Ida Claire and Whiskey Cake. Those are full-service, sit-down restaurant names. That background suggests the hall is meant to feel like a dinner out, not a food court. Day-to-day operations, private event bookings and customer care belong to 100x Hospitality, the anchor operator.
The project's timeline has moved more than once, and the kitchen roster moved with it.
Across a year of schedule changes, the core held. Sweet Lemon Kitchen, King's Chicken Wings and Taconmaye were all on the groundbreaking list and are still on the October list. The one swap kept a burger counter and added shawarma, so the hall came out of the year with more range than it started with.
Two spaces have names of their own on The Junction's website, and both point toward evenings. The Mockingbird is a craft-cocktail bar serving frozen drinks, local brews and coffee. The coffee is the detail that stretches its day into the morning. The Nest is a speakeasy and private-event space, and visitors who have the password can get in.
The stage schedule backs up the weeknight case. The venue's booking page asks musicians to pitch three-hour sets Tuesday through Saturday starting at 7 p.m. A Tuesday-to-Saturday music calendar is a bet that people will come for dinner and stay for a set midweek. Weekends aren't the whole plan. The 25-foot LED screens add game nights, and Marshall's description of the place as a home for "watch parties" sits right next to pickleball and live music in Community Impact's October report.
A few things to know for that first trip to Blue Springs Boulevard:
The season gives you a second evening to plan around, too. The City of Georgetown's annual Lighting of the Square is Friday, Nov. 27, with festivities from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the historic courthouse. The lights stay up through Jan. 1. Sweet Lemon Kitchen's Church Street café is a few blocks from the Square, and now a second Sweet Lemon counter is joining the lineup at Blue Springs Boulevard.
New gathering places like this tend to shape how a part of town feels over the next few years. If you're curious what openings like The Junction mean for your corner of Georgetown, Merissa Anderson Group is always glad to talk it through over coffee, maybe one from the Mockingbird. Let's write your story of home. Schedule a free consultation.
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