The Honesdale-based Dime Bank will expand its scope in Lackawanna County by opening a new branch in the Midvalley later this year.<\/p>\n
Dime Bank purchased the property at 224 Dunmore St. in Throop from PNC Bank for $951,000, according to a deed recorded July 10 in Lackawanna County. The PNC Bank office at that location closed earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Peter Bochnovich, president and CEO of the Dime Bank, stressed that the new spot falls in line with the organization\u2019s growth plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just like the market and we\u2019re excited to be part of the community,\u201d he said. \u201cWe feel there are opportunities there. We have an office in Carbondale and we have one in Scranton, so we\u2019re just kind of filling the gap. It\u2019s going to enhance our ability to serve customers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bochnovich anticipates the new bank will open in late November or early December after cosmetic improvements are completed.<\/p>\n
The Throop location will feature a full-service office with retail and commercial banking options, Bochnovich added. Approximately five to six employees will work at the branch, he said.<\/p>\n
Bochnovich believes the new branch will help continue recent positive momentum for the bank.<\/p>\n
\u201cPerformancewise, we\u2019ve done very, very well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Throop council President Richard Kucharski looks forward to Dime Bank establishing a presence in the borough.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s great \u2026 that\u2019s the only bank in town,\u201d he said. \u201cPNC was there forever and prior to that it was the North Scranton Bank. It was always very busy and certainly very convenient for the residents. I was surprised they actually closed it, so we\u2019re really happy that someone chose to move in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dime Bank\u2019s other locations throughout Northeast Pennsylvania include 300 Lackawanna Ave., Suite 220, Scranton; 157 Brooklyn St., Carbondale; 820 Church St., Honesdale; 1055 Texas Palmyra Highway, Honesdale; 1566 Route 507, Greentown; 309 Main Ave., Hawley; 99 Welwood Ave., Hawley; 1679 Cochecton Turnpike, Damascus, and 1824 Route 739, Dingmans Ferry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Honesdale-based Dime Bank will expand its scope in Lackawanna County by opening a new branch in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[60,201,182,28,178,180,179,3104,181],"class_list":["post-295624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-business","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-throop","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}