OMNI BANK News
OMNI BANK Opens New Temporary Facility on Lapalco
OMNI BANK Opens New Clearview Branch in Metairie
Quarterback Drew Brees to Lead A Team Effort to Highlight Successes in Education
OMNI BANK Opens New Temporary Facility on Lapalco
OMNI BANK is pleased to announce the opening of a new temporary facility on the West Bank located at 3900 Lapalco Boulevard in Harvey. A 4,300 square foot building adjacent to that location will undergo renovations and will become the permanent facility at a later date.
“We are happy to add another layer of convenience to our customers’ experience on the West Bank,” said OMNI President Jim Hudson, “this location is ideal.” The permanent building on Lapalco will be modeled similar to OMNI BANK’s Carrollton Avenue location.
The Lapalco branch is the first new OMNI location to open in 2008. A new two story facility on the Northshore in Mandeville is currently under construction and will open this fall.
Teri Tucker is the Lapalco branch manager and Brian Heiden, Senior Vice President will serve as head of Commercial Lending for the West Bank division. Hours of operation are: 9AM-4 PM Monday through Thursday, and 9AM-5PM on Friday.
OMNI BANK Opens New Clearview Branch in Metairie
OMNI BANK opened a new location at the corner of North Clearview Parkway and West Esplanade Avenue in Metairie, marking the second new OMNI branch to open in 2007, and exemplifying the kind of impressive growth OMNI has experienced all year.
“OMNI is pleased to be able to serve our ever-expanding customer base through new locations like this one at Clearview,” said OMNI President Jim Hudson, who noted that in addition to its two new branches OMNI also reopened this year two branches that were closed post-Katrina, and has also launched a sister bank, OMNI Bank of Baton Rouge.
The new full-service location at Clearview, designed by Verges Rome Architects, was completed in just 200 days by Trison Construction and cost some $700,000. It is located in a former Blockbuster Video in the middle of a bustling commercial corridor that is home to many businesses, restaurants, retail outlets, physician offices and East Jefferson Hospital. OMNI’s Mortgage Department relocated to the new Clearview branch.
DeeDee Dardis is branch manager, with Jan Sanders as assistant manager. Hours of operation are: 9AM-4 PM Monday through Thursday, and 9AM-5PM on Friday.
Quarterback Drew Brees to Lead A Team Effort to Highlight Successes in Education
Harahan, LA. – Quarterback Drew Brees will lead an effort to promote the good news in education when he serves as spokesman for the re-launch of Making the Grade. In a partnership with OMNI BANK, Brees announced his decision to champion education in the Greater New Orleans area at a press conference Friday, September 22 at the Elmwood OMNI BANK location.
Brees was a model student-athlete at Purdue University where he broke numerous football records while being named the Academic All-American Player of Year and winner of the Socrates Award as top college athlete in terms of academics. He was also honored as the recipient of Purdue’s Leonard Wilson Award for unselfishness and dedication. Brees will be the spokesman for the OMNI BANK re-launch of “Making the Grade,” a program developed in New Orleans in the 1980s.
Officials with OMNI BANK, the largest bank headquartered in Jefferson Parish, decided to fund the public service campaign to heighten awareness of successful education programs, curriculum, students and teachers. Said OMNI BANK President and CEO Jim Hudson, “Our future rests on the shoulders of today’s students. Highlighting their achievements will boost confidence in education.”
In the Making the Grade program, superintendents and school principals in Jefferson, Orleans, St. Tammany and St. John parishes will nominate teachers and programs in their school system that are making a difference in education. Twelve of the nominees will be selected to be presented in a print campaign and public service announcements that will broadcast throughout the school year. The public service announcements give parents and students a chance to see what schools are succeeding and promote idea-sharing between teachers. The program previously garnered national attention when Barbara Walters featured Making the Grade in a nationally televised report on successful education programs. And when executives with Colgate learned through Making the Grade that a giant map of the U.S. painted on a school playground was helping students learn geography, they paid to have similar maps painted in schoolyards across the country.
OMNI, an independent community bank, has a long, strong history of involvement in various public service projects throughout Greater New Orleans.
