PORTLAND, Ore. — The Northwest is now becoming a credit union hot spot for interstate branches.
Indeed, Oregon's largest, the $2.6 billion Onpoint Community opened last Friday the first of four Washington State branches, three of which are in a Safeway Supermarket in Vancouver, a Portland suburb.
And a competitor, the $740 million Unitus Community is planning a July 16 grand opening, also in Vancouver for its first across-the-state-line full service branch in a shopping center.
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"We've long sought a way to serve the 3,100 members we have in the Vancouver area and now we'll be able to do it," explained Laurie Kresl, Unitus vice president of planning and business development.
Both Onpoint and Unitus filed regulatory paperwork late last year to open the Washington State facilities in 2008 with Onpoint planning two more of the Safeway outlets complete with high-tech ATMs by the end of the month.
Meanwhile, Spokane Teaches CU more than a year ago opened its first branches in Idaho with facilities at Silver Lake and Post Falls with plans being considered for a third office in Coeur d'Alene in the Idaho Panhandle.
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