Idaho Central Credit Union announces Moscow branch

Sharon Fisher//October 29, 2018//

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photo of u of i basketball arena — Idaho Central Credit Union paid $10 million earlier this year for naming rights to the University of Idaho basketball stadium. Photo courtesy of Opsis Architecture.

The other basketball shoe has dropped with Idaho Central Credit Union’s announcement that it is building a branch in Moscow.

Such a development has been expected since January, when the company donated $10 million to the University of Idaho for naming rights to its basketball arena. At that time, the Chubbuck-based company had 33 branches with four in Northern Idaho – Coeur d’Alene, Post Falls, Hayden and Pierce. The company had said at that time that it was looking for property in Moscow and Lewiston but didn’t have any timelines. ICCU now has 36 branches.

The new branch will be located at 525 W. Third Ave. and is the former location of a Nissan dealership. That building will be torn down and a new branch built. Construction is expected to begin in March, with completion scheduled for fall. It is planned to have six teller stations, three drive-through lanes, an automatic teller machine, and a free coin counting machine, the company said. It will include home loan and business specialists, the company added.

The company didn’t announce the architect or release a rendering, but the majority of its other Idaho facilities have been designed by LCA Architects of Boise.

ICCU has said that it considers itself to be a statewide credit union and that it already has many members in the Moscow area.

In July, ICCU acquired a 50-acre property in Meridian to use for a regional mortgage and call center.