ARCHIVED  September 1, 1997

Valley Bank gets greener branch by branch

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BRIGHTON – Twenty-six years ago, Jim O’Dell was looking to open a new bank in a community that had growth possibilities and was home to only one other bank. If that community was a county seat, all the better. The choice came down to Steamboat Springs and Brighton. In 1971, Platte Valley Bank in Brighton was chartered. “We decided we’d rather be along the Front Range,´ said O’Dell, president and chairman of the board. The decision has proved to be a good one. The bank is now known as Valley Bank & Trust Inc., to better reflect its…

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Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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