Vinton County National Bank (VCNB) is announcing plans to break ground on a new banking office in Vinton County.
The $2.6-million office will be located in downtown McArthur, at the site of the former McClure’s Restaurant, located at 208 West Main Street. The project is expected to be completed in 2024.
“We have outgrown our current office in downtown McArthur,” said VCNB Marketing Director Amanda Crabtree. “We are the second largest private employer in Vinton County and we have about 240 employees across our footprint, however the greatest number of those employees work in McArthur. We also need to give some more dedicated space to our customers because right now it’s not conducive to privacy. It’s also an older building and we just decided it was time to give those McArthur customers something that they could be proud of.”
Plans for the new office include a large open lobby, office space on both floors of the building, and a conference room that overlooks the Main Street area. The new VCNB McArthur Office will also provide three drive-thru lanes and a separate lane for the ATM and Express Drop.
“Right now, our current drive-thru is actually a separate building from the bank in McArthur,” said Crabtree. “We have tellers that are working down at the drive-thru area and we have tellers, personal bankers, our branch manager, and our retail lenders that are working out of the main office, so this will give us an opportunity to have all of those employees together in one building, which will help us to better serve our customers.”
A ground-breaking ceremony for the new VCNB McArthur facility will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 31st.
“We’ll have some renderings there to share with the public so people can kind of get an idea what the interior and exterior will look like,” said Crabtree.
The VCNB's banking museum will also be open during the May 31st groundbreaking.
“A lot of the history and memorabilia from the bank can be found in that museum,” said Crabtree. “There are pictures of all of our past presidents. All of the bank employees used to be required to wear navy blue blazers and one of those blazers can be found in the museum. There are old registers that show the accounting of the bank and they way they used to hand-write everything into the ledgers. There’s also some old dollars and bank shares, just some really neat artifacts from our history.”
Once the new building is complete, the current VCNB bank building at 112 West Main Street in McArthur will continue to house offices for bank employees who work in several departments including HR, Accounting, Marketing, IT Security and Operations.