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Vol. 26 No. 3
PO Box 118,
Sioux City, Iowa 51102
February 2021
Return to
Sioux City
Global security expert
Stevan Bernard
INSIDE THIS MONTH’S ISSUE:
Credit union ALDI opens
deploys Sioux City
virtual tellers outlet
PAGE 4 PAGE 10
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Index
Business People .................................................page 6 On the move .......................................................page 6 ON THE Provided, Stevan Bernard
Chamber anniversaries ...................................page 12 Ribbon cuttings ................................................page 10 COVER Stevan Bernard has traveled the globe during his career and is planning to
return to Sioux City this year. A former executive with Sony Pictures, Bernard
Chamber investors...........................................page 12 was a Sioux City Police sergeant decades ago and later a security official with
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Virtual
credit
union
tellers
Siouxland Federal
Credit Union rolls out
interactive machines
MASON DOCKTER
Business Journal staff writer Tim Hynds, Sioux City Journal
SOUTH SIOUX CITY – Move over, Joel Steenhoven, president of the Siouxland Federal Credit Union, right, waves to teller Alondra Lemus-Magana while demonstrating a new
traditional automated teller machines. interactive teller machine in a drive-up lane at the credit union’s South Sioux City branch. The kiosks allow customers to speak via video
The Siouxland Federal Credit Union conference with tellers located inside the building. At left is Mike LaCroix, the credit union’s vice president of marketing.
installed a set of five new interactive teller
machines (ITMs) at its South Sioux City
branch in November. The machines, which
are staffed by bank tellers who appear on a
screen, replace the bank’s drive-thru teller
windows.
One of the ITMs is inside the lobby, while
the other four are outside, where customers
can drive up and use them. The branch still
has face-to-face tellers inside the lobby,
and the technology didn’t displace any
Siouxland Federal employees.
Mike LaCroix, vice president of marketing
and member experience at Siouxland
Federal, said transactions at ITMs are
quicker than at drive-thru teller windows
– the time spent waiting around has gone
down by eight or nine seconds on average.
Reactions from customers have been
mixed.
“You think you’re going to get some Tim Hynds, Sioux City Journal
positive and negative feedback, and you Teller Yazmin Perez is shown on a video screen of an interactive teller machine at the Siouxland Federal Credit Union’s South Sioux City branch.
do. It’s just funny that you see some of the
people that you would imagine would be LaCroix said COVID-19 was not the without the pneumatic tubes, and can be ITMs emerged within the last decade or so,
resistant to it, are the ones that fall in love reason the credit union opted to adopt used as an ATM if desired. and many banks have yet to implement the
with it,” LaCroix said. ITMs, which they’d been mulling since “It’s kind of like being at the teller technology at their branches.
Siouxland Federal officials are still trying before the pandemic. window, really,” LaCroix said. Banks may have some reason for taking
to determine when or whether other The machines feature a live teller on ATMs, which are different from ITMs the slow approach to adopting ITMs.
branches will get ITMs. “We’re getting screen (the tellers work inside the Siouxland in the sense that there is no person on the The Credit Union Times, an industry
ready to build a Floyd branch, a new branch Federal building) and have somewhat the screen and the banking capabilities are publication, reported in March that 64
out on Floyd Boulevard, and those will get appearance of a late model ATM. They offer somewhat limited, date back to the 1960s percent of bank customers still prefer an
ITMs,” LaCroix said. the same services as a teller window would and are employed by virtually every bank. in-person interaction at a teller window.
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Journal runner up in national contest
BUSINESS JOURNAL STAFF layout, handling of classified and/ grandchildren. Best Sports Column: Former THIRD PLACE
SIOUX CITY – The Sioux City or reader ads and taste, and treat- Best Investigative or In- columnist Tim Gallagher for a Best Serious Column: Re-
Journal finished runner up for gen- ment of public notices. Depth Story or Series: Former column on East Sac High School porter Nick Hytrek for a column
eral excellence in the 2020 Nation- The Journal has now placed first intern Garrett Looker for a story wrestler Evan Boger. efforts by three Sutherland, Iowa,
al Newspaper Association Better or second in general excellence for that detailed how the unsolved Best Editorial Pages residents to find relatives of the
Newspaper Contest. the NNA’s daily division for seven 2014 murder of Alicia Hummel Best Family Life/Living Sec- town’s World War II veterans.
In the NNA’s Better Newspaper straight years, winning top honors still haunts her family and friends. tion/Pages - Siouxland Life mag- Best Sports Column: Zach
contest, the Journal captured a to- in 2018, 2016, 2015, 2013 and plac- Best Reporting on Local Gov- azine, which is printed quarterly. James for a column on Dordt Uni-
tal of 22 awards, including 11 first- ing second in 2020, 2019, 2017 and ernment: Reporter Bret Hay- Best Sports Section versity track and field performer
place honors. 2014. worth for his continuing coverage David Temte.
“It’s gratifying to receive this Community newspaper editors of county supervisor Jeremy Tay- SECOND PLACE Best Breaking News Story:
kind of recognition for doing the and publishers, retired university lor’s residency issues. General Excellence Dockter for a story documenting
kind of local journalism that has journalism professors and retired Best Profile Feature Story: Best Editorial: Former opinion an exchange of gunfire outside a
always been a hallmark of our or former newspaper professionals Editor Bruce Miller for a feature on page editor Mike Gors for a Journal night club that wounded South
newspaper,” Journal editor Bruce judged the contest. Spencer Bailey, three decades after editorial calling for Rep. Steve King Sioux City Police Officer Brian
Miller said. “We’ve very proud of The Journal’s awards in the 2020 the publication of a famous Jour- to resign following his published Van Berkum.
all the hard work that we do for our NNA contest are listed below. nal photo showing Lt. Col. Dennis comments on white supremacy. Best Business Story: Hytrek
readers.” Nielsen carrying the then-3-year- Best Breaking News Photo: for a story exploring Big Ox En-
The Wyoming Eagle Tribune FIRST PLACE old Spencer from the wreckage of Photographer Jesse Brothers for his ergy’s financial troubles.
won first place in the daily division Best Business Story: Reporter United Airlines Flight 232 in Sioux photo of Julie Schoenherr react- Best Video Journalism: For-
of the general excellence category, Mason Dockter for his coverage of City. ing to election returns showing her mer videographer Justin Wan and
which recognizes newspapers that the rapid expansion of Dollar Gen- Best Sports Feature Story: winning a seat on the Sioux City Butz for a video that accompanied
achieve excellence in the quality eral in smaller Siouxland towns. Miller for his story on Morningside Council. Butz’s grandparents series.
of writing, headline language, de- Best Feature Series: Report- College standouts Trent Solsma Best Feature Photo: Photogra- HONORABLE MENTION
sign and typography, use of photos er Dolly Butz for her series that and Connor Niles reflecting on the pher Jesse Brothers for a photo of Best Health Story: Butz for a
and artwork, front page, editorial highlighted the growing number school’s first NAIA football title. Sandra Pearson directing the MLK story highlighting a surge in sexu-
page, sports pages, family life/liv- of grandparents who have taken Best Review: Miller for his re- Community Choir. ally transmitted disease cases in
ing pages, advertising design and on the parenting role for their view of the film “1917.” Best Front Page Design metro Sioux City.
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OnTheMove BusinessPeople
Clausen, Kephart, Winterfeld Heidman names Kalaher elected AIA
make partner at Klass Law Firm Board as partner board treasurer
SIOUX CITY – The Heidman Law SIOUX CITY – The Ameri-
SIOUX CITY – The and em- Firm announced this month that Jes- can Institute of Architects, Iowa
Klass Law Firm re- p l oy- sica A. Board has become a partner Chapter has elected Lisa Kalaher
cently announced that m e n t with the firm. treasurer of the AIA Iowa Board of
Zachary Clausen and law. Board is a member Directors. Kalaher is an architect
Clifton Kephart were Ke p h - of the firm’s litiga- and community activist in Sioux
named partners at the art start- tion practice group, City.
Sioux City firm, while ed work- according to a press In 2010 Kalaher co-founded
Jenny L. Winterfeld Clausen Kephart Winterfeld ing for release from Heid- PLaN Architecture, where she and Kalaher
joined the firm as a the Klass man. Her practice her firm have received recognition
partner. Clausen and firm after includes creditors’ in both design and community engagement. She
Kephart were previously associates graduation. He is licensed to practice rights, bankruptcy, Board also founded Mod House Interiors in Sioux City.
with the firm. law in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, collections, workers’
Clausen worked for the Klass firm as and in the U.S. District Court for the compensation, employment matters
a clerk during law school and started
full-time after graduation. He is li-
censed to practice law in Iowa, Ne-
Northern District of Iowa. He main-
tains a civil litigation practice with a
focus on insurance and workers’ com-
and general civil litigation.
Board is a member of the American
Bankruptcy Institute, the Defense
BusinessBrief
braska, South Dakota, and in the U.S. pensation defense. Research Institute, the Iowa Defense
District Court for the Northern Dis- Winterfeld is licensed to practice Counsel Association, the Iowa Or-
trict of Iowa and U.S. Court of Appeals in Iowa and is a member of the Sioux ganization of Women Attorneys and
for the Eighth Circuit. He maintains a County Bar Association, Iowa State is admitted to practice in U.S. bank-
litigation practice with a focus on civil, Bar Association and the Northwest ruptcy courts and U.S. District Courts
commercial, workers’ compensation Iowa Collaborative Law. in Nebraska, South Dakota and the
Northern and Southern districts of
Iowa.
Leaders named at Rosecrance Jackson Provided
SIOUX CITY – Rose- treatment program. LaFleur, Olson join The Pier Center for Autism in Sioux City is hoping to
have its new, 11,600-square-foot facility on Stadium
crance Jackson Centers
has announced that The-
Simcho is experi-
enced in adolescent
UnityPoint practice Drive completed by April 2021. A rendering of the
odore “T.D.” Hostikka care. He was a clini- facility is shown here.
has been named director cal case manager and SIOUX CITY – Drs. Shauna LaF-
of residential services
and Mike Simcho has
youth worker at Chil-
dren’s Square U.S.A.,
leur and Alisa Olson have joined
UnityPoint Clinic Family Medicine –
Central Bank gives $25K
been named the adoles- Hostikka
cent unit coordinator.
Simcho where he coordinated
staffing and program-
Sunnybrook. Before
joining UnityPoint to Pier Center for Autism
Hostikka has experience ming for a 24-bed children’s emer- Clinic, both LaFleur
in inpatient services, outpatient ser- gency crisis shelter. He also has served and Olson were family SIOUX CITY – Central Bank recently donated
vices, sober homes program develop- as a diversion specialist, family services medicine physicians $25,000 to the Pier Center for Autism in Sioux
ment, drug court and jail recovery. program coordinator, education coach, at Family Health Care City.
During the early 2000s, he directed FSRP supervisor for the Southwest of Siouxland. The donation will be used to help cover con-
a methamphetamine recovery facil- Iowa Family Access Center, and cor- LaFleur obtained struction costs for the center’s new $1.5 million,
ity that provided a 50-day inpatient rections worker. her medical degree 11,600-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility at
from the University Olson 3895 Stadium Drive.
of Iowa Carver Col- The project will allow the Pier Center to double
Daphne Miller joins RE/MAX Preferred staff lege of Medicine, and
Olson obtained hers
its capacity, and expand and grow its services in
the area.
2010. from the Des Moines The Pier Center for Autism was founded in 2012
SIOUX CITY – Daphne Miller has She has also been University College of and is the only clinic of its type in the region. It
been hired as a realtor with RE/MAX active with the Dakota Medicine. serves roughly 60 families, while another 60
Preferred in Sioux City. Miller has been Valley Business Coun- At UnityPoint Clin- families are on its waiting list.
the Ambassador of the Year for both the cil, the Children’s Mir- ic Family Medicine, Construction on the new facility is expected
Siouxland Chamber of Commerce and acle Network, Habitat Sunnybrook, LaFleur LaFleur to wrap up in April. The new building boasts a
the South Sioux City Chamber of Com- for Humanity and and Olson will help to gymnasium and a mock apartment with a kitchen
merce. She worked for FiberComm for Miller various other civic or- coordinate patients’ care from the and laundry room, which will be used to teach the
17 years, and had been a business devel- ganizations. doctor’s office to the hospital and children and young adults in the program how to
opment executive with the firm since home. cook, clean and wash clothes.
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Global security expert
returning to his roots Photos Provided / Stevan Bernard
Stevan Bernard, the head of Bernard Global and a former security executive at Sony Pictures, is planning to make Sioux City his home base this year. Bernard served for several years as a
Sioux City Police officer and as a security official with IBP.
Stevan Bernard, ex-security head at Sony Pictures, to move his consulting firm to Sioux City
MASON DOCKTER place to be,” he said of Sioux City in an email. he went to work for Chrysler International Sioux City Police Department in August 1971
Business Journal staff writer In email and phone conversations with and was managing director with the com- and was promoted sergeant in the fall of 1975.
SIOUX CITY – The head of security at the Siouxland Business Journal, Bernard de- pany from 1961 to 1971. In the 1970s, Martin There were some colorful incidents in his
Sony Pictures during the 2014 North Korea scribed his life, career and some next moves. Bernard retired to Sioux City from Riyadh, time on the force – late one night in February
hack is returning to Sioux City, where he In addition to the entertainment field, he has Saudi Arabia, where he lived for some time of 1978, Bernard arrested two burglary sus-
graduated from high school and once served also held key leadership roles in energy, food, on a work assignment, according to his 1983 pects at a Highway 75 spot called Grandpa’s
on the police force. and hi-tech. During his career, he has lived obituary. Disco, where “he was working in an off-duty
Stevan Bernard, the head of Bernard Global overseas for 7 years and traveled in over 50 Stevan Bernard spent a roughly six-year capacity,” according to a contemporary Sioux
LLC – a firm that specializes in “risk, aware- countries. stretch of his youth in London, where his fa- City Journal report.
ness, preparedness and mitigation,” said he is The son of Sioux City natives Martin J. ther’s work had taken the family in the 1960s, During Bernard’s time with the depart-
planning to make Sioux City his home “base” Bernard and Geraldine D. DeWall, Stevan before he came to Sioux City to finish high ment he took numerous law-enforcement
sometime this year, after decades traveling Bernard was born in Seattle and spent por- school, graduating from Central High School courses, graduating from the FBI National
the world in high-profile security roles. He’s tions of his childhood in Sacramento, San in 1966. Academy, the DEA drug enforcement pro-
taking a break from California, where he lived Francisco and Los Angeles. The next year, he joined joined the Iowa gram and the Dade County Organized Crime
for a portion of his early years and most re- The elder Bernard was a Navy veteran of National Guard 2/133rd Infantry Regiment Institute command school, as well as obtain-
cently. World War II who achieved great success and and spent 1969 on active duty in Vietnam. ing degrees in criminal justice and psychol-
“Other than the harsh winters, it’s a good traveled widely in the postwar years. In 1953, After returning to the U.S., he joined the ogy from Morningside College.
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Stevan Bernard, seen here in Vietnam in this circa-1969 photo, is a former Sioux City Police
sergeant who went on to become an executive at Sony Pictures. Bernard is now planning his
return to Sioux City.
Stevan Bernard, shown here with a “trojan horse” sculpture (made of many computers) is a
former Sony Pictures executive who’s planning to move to Sioux City this year.
world. Our manufacturing and supply connectivity and all of a sudden, you’ve lost
chain issues were large. We also battled with it. What happened concurrently included
counterfeit product issues mostly occurring assessment, activating the crisis team, the
in Asia,” Bernard wrote of his time with US investigation in partnership with the FBI and
Robotics/3Com. my global team, the continuity of our busi-
In 2002, he joined Sony Pictures Enter- ness (operations, payroll, accounts payable/
tainment as an executive vice president in receivable, communications, legal, insur-
charge of global security. His wheelhouse ance, preservation and recovery of data, ad-
was protecting Sony’s “people, data (and) dressing the victimization of our employees
property.” in concert with HR, considering the worry
He was still in that role in 2014, when he expressed by our clients and exhibitors, and
Stevan Bernard (second from right, in leather coat) served as a Sioux City Police sergeant in was faced with what he described as one of much more),” Bernard wrote. “Over months
the 1970s and as a security official with IBP in the 1980s, decades before he became a security his “most memorable” career moments. “I of effort we survived, and we rebounded.”
executive with Sony Pictures. He was at Sony during the 2014 hack perpetrated by North Korea. could write a book on that incident,” he said. Bernard stayed on with Sony for four years
Shortly before Thanksgiving of that year, after that adventure. In 2018, he left to form
hackers in North Korea – whose leadership Bernard Global. The firm specializes in cy-
“I enjoyed it so much that for years after I frequent, lengthy, and often rather intense was apoplectic about the depiction of Kim bersecurity (which he has plenty of firsthand
left I would dream that I was still able to ‘suit strikes by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Jong-un in the Sony film “The Interview” experience in), vulnerability analysis, BCP/
up’ and hit the streets,” Bernard wrote in an Union at its Dakota City plant. – stole troves of sensitive information from CM, business and competitive intelligence,
email of his days with the Sioux City Police. “I’m sure most readers will recall the tur- Sony Pictures, with the intention of fright- physical security and organizational trans-
He’s long maintained relationships in the moil of the 70’s and 80’s with labor disputes,” ening the film studio into nixing the film’s formation. In recent years he’s also embarked
Sioux City law-enforcement community – Bernard recalled of his time with IBP, which release. The hack prompted international on a speaking career.
current Police Chief Rex Mueller is a friend, was acquired by Tyson Foods in 2001. outrage, with then-President Barack Obama His clients have included the FBI, the U.S.
and he was a supporter of Chad Sheehan Later, he went to work with Occidental Pe- saying at the time that Sony should not kow- Department of State, academic institutions
in his successful bid to become Woodbury troleum, followed by a stint with US Robot- tow to North Korea’s demands. and Fortune 1,000 companies, as well as a
County Sheriff. The prominent Sioux City ics, which was later acquired by 3Com (an- “Their intent was to exfiltrate key data, few firms in metro Sioux City.
photographer George Lindblade is another other tech firm). By this time the problems embarrass, confuse and destroy us,” Bernard And, as many people learned during the
longtime friend. he was faced with in his work had magnified wrote. pandemic, he has the freedom to choose to
By 1983, Bernard had left the SCPD to work considerably – he’d gone from dealing with Sony “went dark worldwide” in the im- live and do his work wherever he pleases. In
in the private security field. His first job in small-time street criminals to labor disputes mediate aftermath of the attack on the com- this case, he wants to set up shop in Sioux
that capacity was with the former IBP, where to major international security issues in the pany’s digital infrastructure. City.
he was the director of corporate security. The oil and tech fields. “No connectivity. Imagine running a “In this virtual world I am able to run much
company during the 1970s was the subject of “We had 30,000 employees around the business that is so dependent on digital of my business remotely,” he wrote.
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ALDI arrives in
Sioux City
Discount grocery chain
opens on Iowa city’s
northside after delay
MASON DOCKTER
Business Journal staff writer
SIOUX CITY – In some ways, Sioux City’s
long-awaited ALDI seems to have been born un-
der a bad sign. The grocery store’s arrival was de-
layed almost two years by government red tape. A
pandemic struck in the year when construction
finally commenced.
And, on, Jan. 15, the store’s opening day, a bliz-
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deter scores of people from swarming the
22,152-square-foot store, at 3140 Floyd Blvd.,
after its doors opened for the first time.
There was no way the bad weather was going to
discourage Tavani Page, a traveling nurse who’s Photos by Jesse Brothers, Sioux City Journal
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ALDI associate Joseph Boucher helps Jeana Braun, left, and Karl Braun, right at the Martha Lounsbury browses the aisles at ALDI with her two children Sophie Lounsbury, right,
checkout counter at ALDI on Jan. 15. and Eli Lounsbury, on Jan. 15.
her job, ALDI is one of the places she seeks on opening day – one man couldn’t find a The holdup is thought to have been the re-
out – she’s especially fond of the fresh pro- shopping cart that wasn’t chained to other sult of a delay in obtaining an Army Corps of
duce. carts (the carts are always chained together, Engineers permit to build in the Floyd Valley
“It’s convenient, the prices are reasonable, and can be unlocked from the chains by de- Shopping Center. The site is near the Floyd
there’s plenty of options to choose from, and positing a quarter.) River, though ALDI never commented on the
the staff are always respectful,” said Page, Many others were ALDI devotees who’ve reason for the delay and seldom provided
who is originally from Texas. previously shopped at nearby locations in the public with any updates or details about
David Zirpel, who visited the store with Sioux Falls and Omaha, and were well-ac- the store.
wife Pam, remembers the year he became quainted with the cart procedure. The shopping experience at ALDI, which
an ALDI customer – 1987, when he lived in “We always try to pay it forward too, if is known for its German efficiency, is
St. Louis. A Sioux City residents of 19 years, somebody doesn’t have a quarter, we just rather different from most American gro-
he’d been waiting for this day. pass on our quarter, or we leave it there cery stores. Few brand names are available,
“When we heard that ALDI was coming, for somebody else to take it,” said Rebeca with the majority of the merchandise be-
Jesse Brothers, Sioux City Journal
we were excited about it,” Zirpel said. Quezada, of South Sioux City. ing in-house brands. Grocery bags aren’t
The ALDI experience he knew in St. Louis “I love ALDI, my family and I usually go provided free – a paper grocery sack costs David Zirpel browses the frozen foods
section at Sioux City’s new ALDI on Jan. 15.
34 years ago was different than today. As up to Sioux Falls to shop at the ALDI store, seven cents, and customers are encouraged
with most grocery stores of that era, canned but it’s hard to get up there when you have to bring their own. To use a shopping cart,
goods were more prominent at the time and work, and obviously the weather like this,” you deposit a quarter. To retrieve the quar- It’s also one of the few retail outlets that
the selection of fresh produce was compara- she said. “So we were really excited, we were ter, you return the cart. still has stickers on the floor indicating
tively limited. He also remembered the store looking forward to coming down here to get ALDI is one of the few retailers that al- which direction foot traffic should be going.
being much smaller in the 1980s. some veggie burgers – my favorite!” lows its cashiers to sit on chairs or stools, Many other stores implemented the floor
“We’re impressed with the prices, and the The German discount chain first an- rather than stand the entire time. The store stickers as a COVID-19 safety protocol but
basics like milk, cheese, and vegetables are nounced in early 2018 it would open a Sioux carries some items that are hard to find, or subsequently abandoned the practice.
always a lot cheaper per pound here,” Zirpel City store the following year. But 2019 came more expensive, in other stores – natural “I definitely like how everybody’s more
added. and went, and the plans remained on the and organic items, some imported foods, respectful in following (the stickers on the
There was an air of novelty inside the store drawing board. fair-trade coffee. floor),” Quezada said.
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Bank opens community center with basketball court
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WAYNE, Neb. – It’s not often that
a small community bank builds a
new branch with a two-story bas-
ketball/pickleball court inside.
State Nebraska Bank & Trust,
the last family-owned local bank in
the Wayne County seat of roughly
5,600 people, opened a brand new,
14,000-square-foot multi-pur- State Nebraska Bank & Trust opened its new campus branch and
pose “campus branch” and com- commercial building, adjacent to Wayne State College, in the fall.
mercial building, adjacent to Wayne
State College, in the fall. Matthew Ley,
The campus branch at 1010 right, stands
Main St. is the second of two bank with branch
branches, the other being the main manager Ashley
branch at 122 Main St., roughly a Rewinkel at
mile south. the new State
Besides housing the bank’s cam- Nebraska Bank
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the bank’s partner, State National branch,
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es on the second floor that can be
rented by the public, with a shared to the community. Banks are fairly their computer now, so it’s hard to “We made the decision, a few Minnesota in 1881 and initially ran
conference room and copy room. similar in what they sell,” said Ley, get people to come into your build- years ago, to make it a commer- a store called The German Store,
And then there’s the basketball who declined to say the cost of the ing as much as they used to,” Ley cial building with not just us in it, before applying for a bank charter
and pickleball court (and com- building other than to describe it as said. but with some class-A office space a decade later.
munity room) in the middle of the a “significant investment.” Before the new branch was built for the community,” Ley said. The The bank has remained in the
building. Matthew Ley, the bank’s The addition of a basketball court at the site, State Nebraska Bank building was designed by Ley’s control of the Ley family for almost
CEO, said he had heard of another was, in effect, an effort to endear the & Trust had a drive-thru campus brother, the Lawrence, Kansas- 130 years, despite a decades-long,
bank on the outskirts of Chicago bank to the community, to differ- branch that dated to the 1970s. based architect Roy Ley. industrywide trend toward mergers
that had an attached basketball entiate itself from its competitors The old building had deteriorated State Nebraska Bank & Trust was and acquisitions.
court and was keen on the idea, so and to entice people to pay the bank somewhat, and bank leaders for a founded in 1892 by Henry Ley Sr., “And my son starts this summer,
he phoned an official with that bank a visit. time weighed whether it was worth a German immigrant and Matthew as a part-timer, so then we’ll have
to discuss the concept. “Most people, when they bank, it to have two branches so near each Ley’s great-great-grandfather. The the sixth generation starting,” Ley
“The big thing is just to connect they can do it on their phone or on other. elder Ley had moved to Wayne from said.www.siouxlandbusinessjournal.com Siouxland Business Journal, February 2021 15
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