Branch network

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.

PHILADELPHIA – Sb1 FCU, the one-time SmithKline Laboratories credit union that recently converted to a community charter, opened a new branch in the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

GREENBELT, Md. -- Educational Systems FCU, fresh off its merger with Rockville’s Montgomery County Teachers FCU, has begun construction on a new branch in nearby Prince Frederick, Md.

WEST JORDAN, Utah – Mountain America CU is opening its fourth Idaho branch and first in Boise.

MIAMI LAKES, Fla. – JetStream FCU said yesterday it opened its newest branch last week in Carolina, Puerto Rico, near Luis Munoz Marin Airport.

MADISON, Wis. – Summit CU is poised to open its latest in-school branch in Memorial High School in January.

VIENNA, Va. – Navy FCU will open its 14th Maryland branch in the Baltimore suburb of Glenn Burnie Tuesday to serve more than 21,000 local members.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Service CU is offering the public free tours of its new 100,000-square-foot headquarters built with the latest environmental technology, including geothermal heat exchange, displacement ventilation and other systems that reduce energy usage and provide healthy work environments.

BETHEL, Conn. -- Bank security provider BranchServ said this morning it has acquired CheckView Banking Security Solutions, a division of Checkpoint Systems that provides electronic security solutions for credit unions and banks.

KINSTON, N.C. -- Self Help CU’s recycled branch here—a former gas station- is green in more ways than one.

DUNEDIN, Fla. – Fast-growing Achieva CU is scheduled to break ground this morning on a $10 million, 67,000-square-foot headquarters project near its old Clearwater offices.