Lafayette bank breaks ground on a new center for the corridor

Lafayette-based Home Bank broke ground yesterday on a new banking center and Baton Rouge-area headquarters. Baton Rouge market President Craig Davidson plans to open what will be the company’s third Baton Rouge location on Corporate Boulevard at Trust Drive by the second quarter of 2010. “The opportunity to have our Baton Rouge headquarters in such a busy, vibrant part of the city is exciting,” Davidson says. “We believe that frequent, direct contact with our customers and prospects is the major reason for our long history of success. This new, central location will only enhance our ability to reinforce that business philosophy.” Home Bank currently has two full-service locations in Baton Rouge at Bluebonnet Boulevard and at Highland Road. The Corporate Boulevard banking center will be the company’s 12th location. The century-old, federally chartered savings bank has branches in Lafayette, Carencro, Scott, Broussard and Crowley. The company entered the Baton Rouge market in 2007 with a loan production office on Bluebonnet Boulevard, then in 2008 renovated and opened a location on Highland Road and built a 3,600 square-foot banking center on Bluebonnet Boulevard. “This new office will become our corporate headquarters for the Baton Rouge market,” President and CEO John Bordelon said. “Its centralized location will attract many new business and individual customers.” Architect Steve Oubre of Architects Southwest designed the 6,400-square-foot location that will be built by contractor MAPP Construction.