SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Westerly Community Credit Union has opened a new-style branch and operations center in the Wakefield village of South Kingstown that resembles a cozy hotel lobby or cafe, complete with couches and a fireplace.
The new location, at 4979 Tower Hill Road, replaces the location that WCCU had at South County Commons in South Kingstown. The new 9,000-square-foot building includes a retail banking branch with a drive-up teller and automated teller lanes.
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It also features stations for electric cars in the front parking lot and rooms for staff training, seminars, workshops and meetings offered to local organizations and the Southern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce, the bank said.
Owned by Westerly Community Credit Union, the new building houses branch personnel from its former South County Commons branch and back-office employees from its former Ashaway Operations Center in Hopkinton. The new center opened for business Oct. 15 and a ribbon-cutting ceremony is slated for Oct. 29.
The new center “was built because our South County Commons branch lease and the Ashaway operations building lease were coming due at the same time,” WCCU spokeswoman Meg Sisco said. “It was more cost-effective to build a new location than to continue to pay both leases for another 10 years.”
Established in 1948, WCCU describes itself as a “local, full-service financial institution focused not on profits but on helping its members achieve financial success.”
WCCU said it serves more than 18,500 members with mortgages, lending, deposit, wealth-management and business-lending services.
In addition to the new South Kingstown office, WCCU has two branches in Westerly and one in Richmond.
Scott Blake is a PBN staff writer. Email him at Blake@PBN.com.
