Firstate’s Weins build diverse businesses

When it comes to standing tall among Colorado’s business leaders, the Weins family stands like a “Fourteener.”

Today, the family owns successful businesses that trek east and west of the Interstate 25 corridor from as far south as El Paso County to as far north as Larimer and Weld counties and include banking, ranching, innkeeping and recycling.

The Loveland family owns Northglenn-based Firstate Bank of Colorado, which recently expanded into the Northern Colorado market with the acquisition of First Northern Savings Bank of Greeley.

If you follow the Weins’ Colorado tracks backward in time, you’ll come to a small town in Oklahoma where,…