Northrim Bank Opens Full-Service Financial Center in Nome
The lobby of Northrim Bank’s financial center on 5th Avenue in Nome.
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Northrim Bank cut the ribbon on permanent offices for its financial center in Nome, after serving customers from a temporary location since December in the aftermath of typhoon Merbok.
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The branch in the Nome Courthouse Building at 306 W. 5th Avenue opened July 17 for regular business hours. Led by Drew McCann as branch manager, the center is equipped to provide banking services to Nome and the surrounding areas.
“We are proud to continue our service to Northwest Alaska and look forward to welcoming new customers and the community to our new financial center,” says Mike Huston, president of Northrim Bank.
Northrim had been planning the Nome financial services center last year when storms battered the Bering Sea coast. The bank received special permission to open a temporary location in the Bering Straits Building on Front Street to meet the needs of the Nome community as it recovered and rebuilt.
“We are pleased to be able to open our Financial Center after being in a temporary branch for the past six months,” Huston says.
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The branch in Nome was the eighteenth statewide for Northrim, which serves approximately 90 percent of Alaskans from locations in Anchorage, Eagle River, Wasilla, Soldotna, Fairbanks, Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan. A nineteenth location has since opened in Kodiak, and the bank added a loan production office in Homer.
Northrim chairman and CEO Joe Schierhorn says the expansion to Nome was a response to demand for services in the Norton Sound region. To manage the branch, the bank hired McCann, previously director of the Nome Convention and Visitors Bureau.
At the ribbon cutting ceremony, Northrim Bank presented a donation to the Nome Community Center for the HomePlate permanent supportive housing program.
“We are looking forward to growing in the area and getting to know the community,” Huston says.
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