The agency that builds and repairs Texas government’s offices votes Sept. 17 on hiring an architect for a new headquarters for the state’s three banking regulators, a $52.8 million project that has never before come before its commissioners. Anyone who wants to speak must register by 2 p.m. Sept. 16.
The building is going up at the southern end of Camp Hubbard, the state office campus off North Lamar Boulevard. The Department of Banking, the Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending and the Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner bought 3.89 acres there from the highway department in January 2025, then signed a $52.8 million agreement with the Facilities Commission in March to clear the site and put up a three-story replacement of roughly 63,500 square feet. The agencies expect to move in late in 2028.
None of it is state money, which is why the project appears in no budget document. The three agencies are self-directed and semi-independent — they live on fees paid by the banks, lenders and credit companies they regulate, outside the appropriations process — and their governing board voted in August 2025 to build up as much as $35 million in reserves to pay for the move. They also plan to sell the Finance Commission Building on North Lamar that the new one replaces, and ordered an appraisal in February. The commission has published no price for the architecture contract itself.
The second item is smaller and much older. Commissioners also vote on an architect to rebuild restrooms and breakrooms in the William P. Clements Jr. State Office Building, a 1986 tower on West 15th Street that houses the attorney general’s office, the state technology department and the court that hears administrative cases. The commission’s last condition survey put the building’s unfunded repair needs at $73.2 million, nearly double the figure two years earlier, and the restroom work sits inside a renewal package of about $40 million running through the fall of 2028.
Neither firm is a surprise choice, though one is new here. McKinney York Architects has held Facilities Commission contracts for more than a decade; BGK Architects, which has built much of the Texas School for the Deaf, appears in none of the commission’s posted agendas or minutes going back to 2007. Watch what the state asks for the building it is leaving.
Meeting at a glance
- When
- 9 a.m. CT Thursday, September 17, 2026. The notice, TRD 2026005341, was filed September 8 at 8:32 a.m. The commission’s own calendar had listed September as an optional meeting.
- Where
- Zoom only. The notice says in capital letters that this is not an in-person meeting. Registration to speak closes at 2 p.m. September 16 at tfc.texas.gov/comment; speakers get three minutes.
- Governing body & chair
- Texas Facilities Commission — seven seats: three filled by the governor, two by the governor from the speaker’s nominees and two by the lieutenant governor. Brian A. Bailey chairs. One seat is vacant.
- Format
- Regular meeting, two action items, then a closed session that may cover litigation, real estate, contract negotiations and the executive director’s employment.
- Live video
- Live webcast at adminmonitor.com, which also carries the archive.
- Full agenda
- Secretary of State Open Meeting Viewer · agency agendas and minutes
Commissioners
- Brian A. Bailey — chairman; Austin; Greater Austin Crime Commission member.
- C. Price Wagner — vice chairman; Dallas; wealth management investments leader.
- Robert H. Clay — Houston; development and construction company president.
- JJ Isbell — Pasadena; founder of a petroleum logistics company.
- Daniel “Danny” Signorelli — Houston; real estate development company founder.
- Bob Wetmore — Austin; retired founding partner of an Austin architecture firm.
Roster from the commission’s own commissioners page, checked against the governor’s appointment releases. Six of seven seats are filled; the page carries a memorial for Commissioner Eddy Betancourt, who was found dead in McAllen in December 2025, and no successor has been announced. The page marks vice chairman Price Wagner a holdover, his term having ended January 31, 2025. Will McKerall became executive director in May 2026; documents from the Legislative Budget Board still name his predecessor. Staff contact for this meeting: general counsel Stephen M. Foster, (512) 463-7220.