Branch network

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Altura CU, struggling with a $5.8 million loss last year, announced Friday it is shuttering four branches and laying off 26 employees, 11% of its workforce.

VIENNA, Va. – Navy FCU will open a new branch, its 214th, this morning in Browns Mills, N.J., to serve employees and families at McGuire Air Force Base, Fort Dix and the Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst.

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – Pacific Marine CU has acquired a branch in Temecula, Calif., from Provident Savings Bank.

VIENNA, Va. – Navy FCU has installed Skire Inc.’s Unifier facilities management system for its 210-branch network.

ANDERSON, Ind. – Independent FCU, which reported big losses each of the past two years, announced yesterday it is closing two branches and cutting 12 part-time employees next week.

ALBANY, N.Y. – SEFCU said it will open a branch in the Rensselaer Union on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus in Troy, replacing an HSBC branch being closed in June.

GLENDALE, Calif. – California CU has agreed to buy back its headquarters – which it sold just five years ago to a now-troubled real estate investment company – for a cool $11 million profit.

FORT WORTH, Texas – Fort Worth Community CU has acquired a 4,000 square-foot building by a Target-anchored shopping center once occupied by Washington Mutual Bank.

SAN DIEGO – San Diego Medical FCU has renewed the lease on its 4,638-square-foot Mission Valley headquarters in the 29,639-square-foot Rio Vista Plaza II office building.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Pentagon FCU said it is closing its San Antonio branch later this month, part of a move to focus more on online and mobile services.

GLENDALE, Calif. – California CU has acquired its office building here for $33.8 million.

DECATUR, Ala. – Family Security CU has acquired a branch building in Mobile that was vacated by banking failure Woodlands Bank.

CHAMBERSBURG, Penn. – Patriot FCU received approval from the local school board to open a student-run branch in Chambersburg Area Senior High School.

RALEIGH, N.C.-After installing video teller systems in nearly all of its 15 branches, Coastal Federal Credit Union here is moving to now be open seven days a week.

MIAMI-As part of its strategy for reaching out to the un- and underbanked, Self Help FCU has opened a "micro branch" in east San Jose, Calif.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – Service CU last week said it has received approval to begin construction on a 100,000-square-foot office building that will house its administrative staff.

HOUSTON – Cardtronics has broken into the Puerto Rico market with agreements with credit unions to manage their ATM operations.

FORT MILL TOWNSHIP, S.C. – Family Trust FCU broke ground here for a new branch that will be part of the Springfield Town Center.

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Florida Gov. Rick Scott will join officials of Navy FCU for Friday’s grand opening of the 224,000-square-foot Building 4 of the credit union’s huge call center here.

SAN ANTONIO – Air Force FCU opened a new branch in Del Rio yesterday, the $335 million credit union’s first new branch in nine years and first outside of San Antonio.