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New Mountain Valley Bank building

aims for classic Steamboat look

Steamboat Springs — Mountain Valley Bank has entered the city of Steamboat
Springs' approval process with plans to build a new two-story bank of brick
and stone on the last two undeveloped lots in Curve Plaza commercial center.

#The site is immediately across the center’s internal street from the bank’s
current location in a shopping center storefront. It’s also several doors away
from Ace at the Curve hardware store.
#“We’ve made a considerable investment in our online and mobile banking

capabilities, and we feel it’s a natural extension to have a good physical
location to serve the needs of our customers,” Mountain Valley Bank
Corporate President Wade Gebhardt said.
#In addition to overseeing the Steamboat bank, Gebhardt has responsibility

for Mountain Valley Banks in Walden, Hayden and Meeker.
#Mountain Valley Bank opened here in 2004 and has owned the site for the
new 11,000-square-foot building for years.
#Several factors contributed to the decision to build the new bank building,

Gebhardt said.
#“One is to provide better customer experience in the way that our customers
expect,” he said. “Another is to show we’re really committed to the community
by putting down roots. We think the west side of Steamboat is a core backbone

to the year-around economy. We have a customer base that is pretty
traditional Steamboat, with a lot of hard-working multi-generational families
involved in light industrial and commercial aspects of the economy.”
#“The bank is a use by right in that zone district, and it will be good to

complete that corner of the development,” Senior City Planner Bob Keenan
said of the project.
#The commercial center was built in the late 1990s, with Clark’s grocery store
anchoring the development where Ace at the Curve is now.

#The style of the new building is intended to evoke classic Steamboat style like
that seen at the historic Rehder building as well as in newer buildings like the