Branch network

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Generations Community CU has agreed to sell its 70-year-old office building, the city’s former train station, to VIA Metropolitan Transit, which plans to build a new bus depot out of the historic structure.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – United SA FCU and the University of the Incarnate Word will open a student-run branch location on campus today.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – ESL FCU has opened its first branch in Genesee County, with its first branch in Livingston County scheduled to open next month.

RADCLIFF, Ky. – Navy FCU opened a full-service branch here to serve employees at Fort Knox, one of two new branches launched yesterday.

SALT LAKE CITY – Utah Power CU will open its new home offices and branch tomorrow in nearby Murray.

WATERVILLE, Me. – New Dimensions FCU has acquired an Augusta branch from troubled Border Trust, where it plans to open its second branch.

KIMBERLY, Wis. – Capital CU has acquired a two-story building here where the $390 million credit union plans to relocate its main offices.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University Employees FCU has opened an ATM in the University’s Quad.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Navy FCU will open its newest branch here Monday outside Kirtland Air Force Base, to serve more than 20,500 active duty Airmen, National Guard and reservists, and contractors.

ATLANTA – Delta Community CU is opening a new branch in Decatur Thursday, the credit union’s first service center in DeKalb County.

Financial institutions need part-time help to fix a big-time problem: branch costs disproportionate to a dwindling number of customer and member visits.

After acquiring 11 branches from troubled Anchor Bank, Royal CU has seen a net increase in members (5%), deposits (4%), and loans (11%) at the new offices since they opened for CU business in June.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Navy FCU said this morning it will open its 206th branch on Monday, its first inside the Pentagon, headquarters for the U.S. Department of Defense.

RICHLAND, Wash. – HAPO Community CU plans to build its first Oregon branch after receiving regulatory approval to serve residents of Oregon’s Umatilla County.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – A state court ordered a halt yesterday to a controversial transaction that would allow the University of Iowa Community CU to buy 20 acres of land in nearby North Liberty for $1 to build a new headquarters as part of a planned 64-acre development.

RICHLAND, Wash. – HAPO Community CU has hired a local architectural firm to design a renovation and addition to its 47,000 square-foot offices.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Ten students at East Forsyth High School have launched Winston-Salem’s first student-run credit union managed by Truliant FCU.

SAN ANTONIO – River City FCU reached an agreement with H.E. Butt Grocery Co. to open three new branches inside local H-E-B stores.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Altura Credit Union is closing one of its two branches in Hemet, Calif., Credit Union Journal has learned.

ERIE, Penn. – Erie FCU opened two new branches, one in a Wal-Mart Supercenter and another in a residential walk-up facility.