{"id":339318,"date":"2026-07-14T06:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339318\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T06:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:14:08","slug":"bankunited-opens-new-tampa-westshore-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/339318\/","title":{"rendered":"BankUnited Opens New Tampa Westshore Branch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BankUnited opened a new, full-service branch in Westshore, Tampa, FL, continuing the bank\u2019s momentum in the region. The bank also plans to open a new St. Petersburg, FL branch in Q4\/26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur new Westshore branch and the planned St. Petersburg branch will provide personal and commercial banking solutions to the professionals and businesses that make these communities thrive,\u201d Ernie Diaz, senior executive vice president, head of consumer, small business and commercial banking at BankUnited, said. \u201cThe Tampa region is experiencing strong growth across many industries and BankUnited is there to support customer needs and help bolster the regional economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kris-Eric Surillo, BankUnited market leader and vice president, was recently hired to oversee the new Westshore branch and the existing Tampa\/Henderson branch location. Surillo, a 20-year bank professional, joins BankUnited from Synovus Bank in the Tampa region. He is a strong motivational leader known for developing and coaching exceptional teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BankUnited opened a new, full-service branch in Westshore, Tampa, FL, continuing the bank\u2019s momentum in the region. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-339318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}