Branch network

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Lake Trust CU has chosen Contracting Resources to help it design a new high-tech service model that will introduce teller pods inside its branches.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – An explosive device detonated at a Virginia CU ATM early this morning failed to access the cash but left a charred machine.

ROCKY HILL, Conn. – In an age when credit unions are touting mobile banking, Nutmeg State FCU is bringing the branch to its members in a different way.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jax FCU plans to open a new branch in the town of Mandarin after the first of the year.

LANSING, Mich. – CASE CU said it is vacating four in-store Meijer branches at year-end after the credit union was defeated for the contract by Huntington Bank.

EAST LANSING, Mich. –Michigan State University FCU has won the bidding among seven financial institutions to open a branch in the Sparrow Professional Building in Lansing.

COLONIE, N.Y. – CAP COM FCU, thwarted earlier this year in efforts to build a new headquarters, has a new plan for a headquarters.

BOCA RATON, Fla.--Intercontinental Warranty Services, Inc. (IWS), a provider of after-market vehicle protection services to credit unions, said it is selling certain assets to a Chicago area-based affiliate of Kingsway Financial Services Inc. Current management, led by CEO James H. Hawk, will remain in place.

OGDENBURG, N.Y. -- St. Lawrence FCU has announced plans to expand their branch and main office at 800 Commerce Park Drive with a 10,944-square-foot addition.

DETROIT – Detroit Metropolitan CU celebrated a new branch opened inside the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center.

KEEWATIN, Minn. -- Central Hanna Employees CU has decided to convert to a community charter after it acquired a downtown branch from American Bank.

AUSTIN, Texas – Austin Telco FCU has bought a 75,000-foot office building that will house its new headquarters, the latest area credit unions with plans for larger new offices.

RYE, N.Y. -- USAlliance FCU has acquired a branch in New York’s Harlem neighborhood with the merger of El Barrio FCU, a troubled $1 million credit union.

KINSTON, S.C. – Self-Help CU is opening a new branch here, the credit union’s 10th, in a recycled gas station.

PALO ALTO, Calif. – First Tech FCU said today it has completed the installation of 114 new ATMs that feature NCR’s SelfServ envelope-free deposit and Dip Card Reader technology.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Air Force FCU has opened a new branch in Schertz, near the Joint Base San Antonio.

JAMESTOWN, N.D. -- First Community CU, the state’s largest credit union, is opening a new branch in Fargo.

FITCHBURG, Mass. – Workers’ CU has opened inside Hannaford Supermarket in Chelmsford, the credit union’s 15th branch.

BETHESDA, Md. – Navy FCU is opening a new branch tomorrow at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, adjacent to the new 150,000 square-foot Navy Exchange shopping mall on Wisconsin Ave., and a stone’s throw from the Washington D.C., border.

SPOKANE, Wash. – Spokane Teachers CU opened a new branch in Moran Prairie and has acquired land for an additional branch downtown.