ATX-GEO: Impact 10/14/2025

Katy Bohls entered the wedding industry after looking for her own wedding venue in 2009, when she struggled to find a space in Central Texas that suited her and her fiances personalities.

The overview: She now owns the Wish Well House in downtown Georgetown where she rents the space out for wedding and anniversary celebrations. She opened the venue in 2021.

“When this property came up for sale, [I] was like, ‘This is perfect,’” Bohls said. “It's a historic house. It has our personality [and] that character in it, but we can modernize it.”

More details: Bohls describes Wish Well House as filled with natural light and tall ceilings. The space features a cocktail lounge, a main hall, an indoor and outdoor bar, a ceremony courtyard, two private suites, a shared restroom for guests, and additional parking coming soon.

One more thing: Wish Well House hosts between 80-100 weddings per year, Bohls said, and with the versatility of the space, no two events are the same.

Stunning Hardwoods, a ready-to-finish exotic wood slab supplier, opened in Georgetown in July.

The details: Owner Jay Medley offers a selection of hardwoods imported from Costa Rica. The pieces are pre-finished, and can be used for tables, barn doors, statement pieces and other home or office projects. Stunning Hardwoods offers a variety of wood cuts, such as live edge slabs, cross cut slabs, river slabs, drop slabs and flat stock.

The warehouse is open by appointment only.

• 181 Market Street, Ste. 304, Georgetown

Williamson County residents who need help clearing debris in the aftermath of the July 4 weekend floods will have until Oct. 31 to apply for county assistance, according to an Oct. 10 news release.

The details: Williamson County and the Texas Department of Emergency Management initially opened applications for flood relief Aug. 28 to benefit the victims of the flooding, which tore through parts of Central Texas in July. Much of Central Texas, including the Williamson County cities of Leander, Georgetown and Liberty Hill, was affected by the damage.

Battery-powered home energy service Base Power has acquired funds to expand its operations with a Texas factory in the heart of Austin.

What to know: The company has raised $1 billion alongside 20 investors which will help build its first Texas factory in the space previously occupied by the Austin-American Statesman printing press in downtown Austin.

"Base Power is an Austin-born company, and we're excited about deepening our investment in the city with the goal of bringing affordable, reliable power to Texans," Co-founder and CEO Zach Dell said.

The energy storage and power electronics factory will help meet the company’s current and future demands with its plans to expand services nationwide.

“We’re building domestic manufacturing capacity for fixing the grid,” COO and co-founder Justin Lopas said. “The only way to add capacity to the grid is physically deploying hardware, and we need to make that here in the U.S., ourselves.

• 305 S. Congress Ave., Austin