Branch network

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Empower FCU said it sold its branch in nearby Big Flats, N.Y., to Elmira Savings Bank.

NEWARK, Del. – Community Powered FCU will break ground on a new headquarters and retail branch project later this month on Route 40 in Bear.

CINCINNATI – Emery FCU said it closed its downtown branch after First Financial Bancorp, the building’s owner, declined to renew its lease.

FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. – Teachers FCU, which moved into a new headquarters in nearby Hauppauge in November, has sold its old offices here for $4.6 million.

RALEIGH, N.C.-As Coastal FCU members ring in the New Year, they can also toast the fact that the CU has completed its deployment of video tellers, allowing it to serve members from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days per week.

SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco FCU is opening a branch, appropriately enough, in this city’s Financial District.

FORT LEWIS, Wash. – America’s CU has relocated its Lacey branch into a former Citizens Bank office.

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. – Kinecta FCU said it relocated its Midwest mortgage operations center from Rosemont, Ill., to Chicago.

HARTFORD, Conn. – Nutmeg State FCU gave one person a two-minute run to collect all the groceries they want at a Price Shopper store to celebrate the opening of the credit union’s new branch there.

FAIRFAX, Va. – Apple FCU opened a new student-run branch in Tuscarora High School in Leesburg, Va., the credit union’s 33rd in-school branch.

ALGIERS, La. – Navy FCU continued its branch openings with a new facility opened yesterday here on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

BERKELEY, Calif.-Cooperative Center Federal Credit Union is reaping big benefits from its installation of a 29.7 kilowatt DC photovoltaic solar system earlier this year.

DALLAS – Credit unions were hit last week with a new group of suits by one consumer claiming they violated the public disclosure provisions of the Electronic Funds Transfer Act by failing to post non-member fees being charged at their ATMs as required by the EFTA.

SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco FCU said this morning it signed a deal with Walgreens to allow its members surcharge-free usage of cash dispensing ATMs in 500 Walgreens locations and the placement of 20 ATMs with the credit union's brand throughout San Francisco.

GROTON, Conn. -- Charter Oak FCU is opening its 12th branch at the Electric Boat campus, in New London, the building site for Navy submarines.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. – Consumers CU is planning to open two branches in 2012, one in Kalamazoo and one in Mattawan.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – The University of Iowa Community CU announced this morning it is the latest victim of market economics, forcing it to close its branches on the University’s campus and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics as the credit union declined to participate in competitive bidding for renewal of the five-year leases.

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Spokane Teachers CU said its new branch will feature an electric car charging station.

LEBANON, Ore. – Linn-Co. FCU is renovating three branches in the heart of lumber country with the goal of reflecting the local industry as well as the community’s status as the “grass-seed king of the world.”

LEBANON, Ore. – Linn-Co Federal Credit Union has undertaken a renovation of its three branches to reflect the local market’s relationship with the timber industry, local rivers and its status as the “grass-seed king of the world.”