Branch network

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.

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.