Branch network

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.

WICHITA, Kan. – Wichita FCU on Saturday will break ground on a 10,000-square-foot facility in East Wichita that will be its main branch.

MANCHESTER, N.H. – St. Mary’s Bank won a contract to install two ATMs in Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, an hour north of Boston.

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. – The Eugene City Council on Wednesday agreed to sell a 1.9-acre plot next to the U.S. Courthouse to Northwest Community CU, where the $720 million credit union plans to build a new headquarters.

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Affinity Plus FCU unveiled its new 22,000 square-foot branch in nearby Roseville, the largest of the $1.5-billion credit union’s 26 branches.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – L & N FCU has started building its 15th branch – its first in Bullitt County.

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Pen Air FCU opened a new branch in nearby Foley, Ala., last week, its third Alabama branch.

Changes are coming to the credit union branch model.

Is the branch dead? It clearly is not, says Mark Weber, president of Weber Marketing Group, who points to the record number of building projects and branch redesigns his firm has taken on in the past four years.

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.