Three CUs Share A Home

DUBUQUE, Iowa - (09/07/05) -- Three small credit unions are nowoperating out of the same building here. The three, Alliant CU,Dubuque Teachers CU and Health Services CU, joined to finance andbuild their joint home, they call the CU Link. Though housedtogether, each credit union occupies a separate suite in thebuilding. Each offers drive-up teller lanes, safe deposit boxes,surcharge-free drive-up depository ATM, and more. "We are smallcredit unions and Dubuque is a highly competitive market forfinancial services. I could see that we needed to have a west sidelocation, but it was not feasible to proceed independently," saidJoe Gonzalez, president of Health Services CU.