A Quiet Drain on Value: The 15-Year Cost of Oversized Bank Branches—and What to Do Instead

Close-up of ornate Corinthian columns on a historic bank building facade with detailed stone carvings.

The consolidation of banks has left its mark on nearly every community center in America. Once-prized regional headquarters now stand in prominent spaces as under-used and over-sized retail branches — costly relics of past acquisitions whose lost grandeur is evident to every branch customer and staff member. While leaders focus on growth, the haphazard transition […]