Branch network

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Washington State Employees CU, the state’s second largest credit union, celebrated a grand opening yesterday for its new headquarters here, a five-story, 130,000 square-foot building on the downtown’s Union Avenue.

ABILENE, Texas – Abilene Teachers FCU broke ground yesterday on a two-story building here that will serve as new headquarters and a branch for the $270 million credit union.

BATON ROUGE, La. – KeyPoint FCU plans to expand next year in Ascension Parish with a new branch in Prairieville.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – ESL FCU will enter Genesee County with a branch in Batavia to open in late 2010, officials announced Thursday.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Students at Fowler High School will open an adjunct branch of Syracuse Cooperative FCU today.

CUMBERLAND, Penn. – AmeriChoice FCU opened its latest student-run branch Friday in the Cumberland Valley School District.

RICHLAND, Wash. – Fast-growing Gesa CU opened its new corporate offices Monday, in a newly constructed four-story, 76,000 square-foot building downtown.

PHOENIX – Arizona FCU, which has been fighting one of the worst economies in the country, said yesterday it plans to close eight more branches in 2010 to help cut expenses.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Fast-growing APCO Employees CU plans to open its first branch in the Tuscaloosa market.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Sandia Laboratory FCU, the state’s biggest credit union, has opened its eighth branch and first in the town of Los Lunas.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – GTE FCU is poised to open a new branch in midtown, a troubled neighborhood that has been without financial services for almost two decades.

CHICAGO – Polish & Slavic FCU has signed a lease to open a new branch here, the $1.2 billion credit union’s first branch outside of its core New York and New Jersey market.

NEW YORK – Municipal CU announced a partnership with A&P supermarkets with which it has placed ATMs in 16 of the company’s Pathmark grocery stores in the New York metro area.

PLAINFIELD, Ind. – Crane FCU has entered the Indianapolis market with plans to open a new branch in the former headquarters of Lincoln Bank it has acquired.

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – Fast-growing Fort Campbell FCU has opened a new branch, its ninth, at Tiny Town and Heritage Pointe Drive in Clarksville.

PALO ALTO, Calif.–Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union acquired USE Credit Union’s San Jose, Calif., branch on Nov. 1, and said it now offers its members greater convenience with branches throughout the Silicon Valley.

EUGENE, Ore. – SELCO Community CU said it is expanding its service in central Oregon with a new branch inside the Redmond Wal-Mart.

VERNON HILLS, Ill. — Branch-related expenses are under scrutiny at Baxter Credit Union, but in the process it keeps its eye on something else: member service and satisfaction.

SUITLAND, Md. – Andrews FCU said it has opened a new branch located in nearby Mt. Laurel, N.J.

ALAMAGORDO, N.M. – Otero FCU is planning to build new offices, a two-story building that will provide the $210 million credit union with 22,000 square-feet of space.