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STCU building bank branch next to home loan center in Spokane Valley

Spokane Teachers Credit Union is among Spokane-area banks and credit unions that are now offering loan payment deferments to help borrowers weather economic difficulties caused by the coronavirus outbreak. (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
By Amy Edelen amye@spokesman.com(509) 459-5581

Spokane Teachers Credit Union is planning to build a new bank branch adjacent to its existing home loan center on Argonne Road in Spokane Valley.

STCU has filed a preliminary application with the city to build a 3,100-square-foot branch with three drive-thru lanes at 9209 E. Mission Ave.

An existing office building will be demolished to make way for the new branch, according to the application.

Spokane-based Bernardo|Wills Architects is the project architect.

STCU opened its home loan center at 9207 E. Mission Ave. in 2018 after investing more than $900,000 in improvements to the 1970s-era building. The credit union also remodeled and upgraded the adjacent office building, with several suites leased to small businesses.

A separate application filed with the city by Ryan and Paul Breithaupt indicates plans to move two offices from the office building at 9209 E. Mission Ave. to a proposed 4,400-square-foot building on Nora Avenue, east of Pines Road and Interstate 90 interchange.

STCU was founded by educators in 1934 and is a member-owned, nonprofit cooperative with more than 200,000 members and 24 locations in Eastern Washington and Idaho.