Downtown Dayton Huntington employees working in wealth management, private banking, mortgage, business banking and commercial banking teams will not move, and continue working out of the leased office space on Ludlow Street, Wilder said.
The decision is “following deep consideration,” he said. “Huntington will remain an active downtown Dayton employer committed to our Courthouse Plaza office space.”
Dayton branch customers were notified at the end of 2012 about the closing, he said.
Huntington is also closing a Springfield branch office, 1607 Selma Rd., in the Southern Village Shopping Center.
The two are among nine branch closings planned for March 29 across Huntington’s six-state footprint, Wilder said.
After this week, Huntington will continue to run a total of 53 branches in the Southern Ohio/Northern Kentucky region including Dayton and Springfield metropolitan areas.
“Huntington regularly reviews and fine-tunes its distribution network, and makes adjustments and improvements to provide our customers with great service and convenience,” Wilder said in an email. “Branches are reviewed for customer traffic patterns, transaction trends and proximity to nearby Huntington branch locations.”
Columbus-based Huntington Bancshares Inc. is Dayton’s sixth largest bank by metro deposits of about $554 million, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
The news follows a larger trend of banks focusing on e-commerce and new ways of delivering services, sometimes shedding bank branches as they cut costs.
Courthouse Plaza is an 11-story, 160,000-square-foot office building owned by partners with the law firm Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, which has offices there, according to Downtown Dayton Partnership.
Staff writer Everdeen Mason contributed to this report
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