Branch network

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State University FCU opened a new branch last week with the help of local tax breaks at the former Dimitri’s Restaurant in nearby Lansing.

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Navy FCU is negotiating to purchase 240 acres at Escambia County’s 4-H Center which would be used to expand the credit union’s massive 52-acre call center, the biggest credit union facility in the world.

SUITLAND, Md. – Andrews FCU will open a new branch in the town of Waldorf on March 30, which will be the eighth U.S. branch for the $810 million credit union.

RALEIGH, N.C. – And on the seventh day Coastal FCU was open for business and offered teller hours.

SAN ANTONIO – Firstmark CU began construction on a new Alamo branch, which will be the $700 million credit union’s 11th service center.

LARGO, Fla. – Achieva CU has opened a new branch in Sarasota in a building recently vacated by Tropical Financial CU.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – PSCU Financial Services said yesterday it has joined NCR and First Data Corp. to offer ATM hardware purchase, leasing options and maintenance services to its 1,500 credit unions.

RALEIGH, N.C. – State Employees’ CU is planning to open three new branches in Greensboro later this year or in early 2012 as part of a plan to expand its footprint in the region.

BILOXI, Miss. – Navy FCU will continue its expansion into non-Navy facilities with a new branch here Monday to serve more than 15,000 U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense personnel at Keesler Air Force Base.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – VyStar CU said yesterday it has signed with Cardtronics to place its brand on Cardtronics-owned ATMs in 10 Walgreens stores located in Alachua County in northeastern Florida.

DUPONT, Wash. – Community 1st CU opened its new main offices and branch here, a few miles from its current home in Tacoma. The 17,000 square-foot building houses the administrative staff and management team of the $120 million credit union, and a new branch. Community 1st was chartered in 1925 as Seattle Postal Employees CU and is the state’s first and oldest credit union.DUPONT, Wash. – Community 1st CU opened its new main offices and branch here, a few miles from its current home in Tacoma.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – First Florida CU has acquired an empty branch of a failed bank from the FDIC for $995,000.

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Navy FCU is building a 225,000-square-foot, $80 million building, its fourth at the credit union’s giant call center here.

HARRISBURG, Penn. – Pennsylvania State Employees CU last week got the go ahead to build its new 235,500-square-foot headquarters in nearby Susquehanna Township.

CHICAGO – New York-based Polish & Slavic FCU this week opened its third area branch here in the suburb of Bridgeview to serve the area’s big Polish-American population.

NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa – The city council voted Tuesday for a multi-million dollar package of property tax rebates for University of Iowa Community CU and the contractor for its proposed new headquarters as part of an effort to bring the troubled office project back to life.

LAKE HOUGHTON, Mich. – North Central Area CU has branched into the community’s elementary schools with new student-run branches in Houghton Lake, Roscommon, Standish and Twining.

SAN DIEGO – San Diego County CU opened its 28th branch location, in Oceanside, near a Wal-Mart.

MADISON, Wis. – University of Wisconsin CU on Monday opened a new branch inside UW Oshkosh’s student union, part of the $1.2 billion credit union’s expansion on the UW campus.

SUITLAND, Md. – Andrews FCU said yesterday it opened its 12th branch and sixth overseas at the U.S. Army base in Schweinfurt, Germany.