Branch banking

VACAVILLE, Calif. – Navy FCU said this morning it is opening its 33rd California branch here next week to serve 23,000 military personnel at Travis Air Force Base, as membership booms at the nation’s largest credit union.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Jefferson CU is moving its corporate offices to Hoover and the $70 million credit union plans to open additional new branches in the next few years.

HARRISBURG, Penn. – Pennsylvania State Employees CU has teamed up with several energy companies to develop an onsite power generation system that will provide back-up energy for the credit union’s new 239,000-square-foot headquarters.

CANTON, Ohio – Diebold Inc. said yesterday it is suspending plans to build a $100 million headquarters in nearby Green, Ohio, and is forfeiting tens of millions in tax breaks that would have covered the entire cost of the 500,000-square-foot building and corporate campus.

LINTHICUM, Md. – State Employees CU of Maryland officially opened its 22nd branch Monday at the University of Maryland in downtown Baltimore.

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. – Northwest Community CU has submitted a proposal to officials in Eugene to buy a 1.8-acre city-owned plot and develop it into a new headquarters for the $720 million credit union.

ALTOONA, Penn. – Altoona Regional Health System FCU has hired national design form Momentum to build a new headquarters for the $26 million credit union.

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Columbia CU has submitted a request to the city to build a second office building at its main operation center.

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – Fast-growing Scott CU officially opened its new 51,000-square-foot offices yesterday, more than tripling the size of its old headquarters in nearby Collinsville.

EAST LOS ANGELES – The $1.2-billion NuVision FCU said it will close a branch here at the end of October, further limiting the already limited number of financial outlets in this low-income side of town.

ESSEXVILLE, Mich. – FinancialEdge Community CU here will open the doors of a new location inside a Do-All resale store tomorrow on International Credit Union Day.

Grow Financial FCU is trying a novel approach to lure passersby into its branches: an interactive video wall that plays a game with people outside, in which they can win cash.

PHILADELPHIA – Sb1 FCU, the one-time SmithKline Laboratories credit union that recently converted to a community charter, opened a new branch in the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

GREENBELT, Md. -- Educational Systems FCU, fresh off its merger with Rockville’s Montgomery County Teachers FCU, has begun construction on a new branch in nearby Prince Frederick, Md.

WEST JORDAN, Utah – Mountain America CU is opening its fourth Idaho branch and first in Boise.

MIAMI LAKES, Fla. – JetStream FCU said yesterday it opened its newest branch last week in Carolina, Puerto Rico, near Luis Munoz Marin Airport.

MADISON, Wis. – Summit CU is poised to open its latest in-school branch in Memorial High School in January.

VIENNA, Va. – Navy FCU will open its 14th Maryland branch in the Baltimore suburb of Glenn Burnie Tuesday to serve more than 21,000 local members.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Service CU is offering the public free tours of its new 100,000-square-foot headquarters built with the latest environmental technology, including geothermal heat exchange, displacement ventilation and other systems that reduce energy usage and provide healthy work environments.

BETHEL, Conn. -- Bank security provider BranchServ said this morning it has acquired CheckView Banking Security Solutions, a division of Checkpoint Systems that provides electronic security solutions for credit unions and banks.