Now here's an interesting article....because this bank is due to expand in one of its sites here in Lower Merion. Is this what we all have to look forward to? Hope not.
From The Daily News:
Urban Warrior | Chestnut Hillers don't feel too convenienced by bank
By CHRIS BRENNAN
Excerpt:
AMERICA'S MOST Convenient Bank" touts its branch offices as open every day, offering free personal checking.
But so far, the people of Chestnut Hill have gotten a dangerous, semidemolished eyesore on an otherwise picturesque city street and six months of frustration from Commerce Bank.
The Cherry Hill-based bank started converting the old Gap store on Germantown Avenue at Evergreen into a branch office in October and quickly ran afoul of the Department of Licenses and Inspections by going well beyond the scope of its permit.
There's not much left of the building but the foundation. Two walls are down and a third is mostly removed. Scaffolding holds up the roof. For six months, the site was wrapped in blue tarps that flapped in the breeze as construction debris blew through the surrounding neighborhood.
"This is crazy," said Julie O'Connell, who lives nearby. "If a homeowner did this, they would never get away with it."
The eyesore sits at the northern entrance to Chestnut Hill's thriving business district. It's not exactly the welcome the community wants to offer shoppers.
Full text: http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/14250171.htm
not so free checking
The checking isn't even free. I get charged all the time both for unadvertised min balances and money transfers for funds that aren't available even though they are listed as available.
commerce sucks
Stay away from commerce bank! They will eventually fee the shit out of you.
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