Unified Bank, which already boasts a robust clientele in West Virginia’s Northern Panhandle, cut the ribbon Tuesday on a site that will give those Mountain State residents a full-service spot to do their banking in Wheeling.

Bank officials and Wheeling dignitaries braved the cold Tuesday morning to celebrate the banking center’s opening on National Road next to CVS Pharmacy in Wheeling’s Woodsdale neighborhood. The area already is a bustling center of commerce in the city.

“We’ve acquired a considerable clientele over here in Wheeling who always asked us, ‘When will you put a brick and mortar building over here?'” said Scott Everson, Unified Bank’s chairman, president and CEO. “It was a matter of finding the right opportunities, and we found them here.”

Unified Bank has been an Ohio Val

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