Racine-based Johnson Bank will open a new branch at 14000 W. North Ave. in Brookfield on June 2. Work on a new 12,000-square-foot building is being completed now, said Brad Quade, Milwaukee market president for the bank. "This will be a teriffic location in terms of coverage and the level of service that will be available," Quade said. The bank’s closest branches are in Whitefish Bay, downtown Milwaukee and Pewaukee, Quade said.
The branch will offer traditional retail and mortgage services on its first floor. The second floor will offer investment management, private banking and wealth management, Quade said, services that will be based from that branch. "It also helps as we look at follow clients to the places they live and work," he said. "We want to provide convenient locations." The branch will also be a LEED-certified green building. Its HVAC system, lighting and electronics will be low energy models, and its choices of materials for paint, flooring, fabrics on chairs and work surfaces will be environmentally friendly.
The new branch will have on-site water detention in a basin beneath its parking lot. Johnson Bank was started in 1970 by the late Sam Johnson, and the LEED certification is part of the family’s philosophy of protecting the environment. "We’ve always been sensitive to it, and now we are able to demonstrate it via certifications," Quade said.
