U.S. Bank offices moving floors within U.S. Bank Plaza tower

U.S. Bank will shift floors and consolidate space in its namesake tower sometime in spring.

The bank currently has a branch on the ground floor and offices on the second, eighth and ninth floor with a total of 95 employees. The branch will remain in place but the other offices will move up to the 14^th and 15^th floors around the end of the first quarter, U.S. Bank spokeswoman Amy Frantti said.

The 19-story U.S. Bank Plaza serves as the bank’s regional headquarters for western Idaho and eastern Oregon and houses retail, commercial banking, private banking, trust, institutional trust and custody, in-store administration, government banking, mortgage administration services and lending officers, Frantti said.

U.S. Bank Idaho and Washington Division President James Grigsby has his office at U.S. Bank Plaza.

“Our relocation within U.S. Bank Plaza is a combination of construction projects taking place related to the development of the building, and an opportunity presented to us when the 14th and 15th floors became available,” Grigsby said in a statement. ”Being located on two adjacent floors will provide more efficient use of space rather than being located on multiple floors throughout the building.”

U.S. Bank will occupy the space previously filled by the law firm Holland & Hart, which moved to Eighth & Main tower in February 2014. Gardner Company owns both U.S. Bank Plaza and Eighth & Main and is building the nine-story City Center Plaza between those two towers.

“We went through the building tenants first to see if there was an interest in the higher floors,” said David Wali, Gardner’s executive vice president.

Wali said he expects U.S. Bank Plaza and City Center Plaza to be 90 percent occupied by the time City Center construction wraps up around mid-2016.

U.S. Bank Plaza was built in 1977 as Idaho First Plaza. Idaho First National Bank, founded in 1867, changed its name in 1989 to West One Bancorp, which merged with U.S. Bancorp in 1995. U.S. Bank owned the building until selling it in 2000 to Unico Partners. Gardner Company purchased U.S. Bank Plaza in August 2013 to enable construction of the neighboring City Center Plaza.