Blackhawk Bank to open Milton Avenue branch

April 11—JANESVILLE — Blackhawk Bank plans to expand its Janesville operations with a new full-service branch on Milton Avenue that's set to open in September.

The Beloit-based bank announced it had acquired a two-story office building at 2525 Milton Ave. that until recently had housed an Advia Credit Union branch.

Blackhawk Bank has operated a mortgage and commercial loan office at 200 W. Milwaukee St. since 2014.

Stephanie Meier, vice president of marketing at Blackhawk Bank, said the new Milton Avenue location will be a full-service branch that will absorb the mortgage and commercial lending operations now at the West Milwaukee Street location, which will close.

The new location will include local banking, an ATM and drive-thru, mortgage services, investment advising services, and business lending and commercial cash management services, Meier said.

Those operations will occupy the first floor of the building. Meier said a dentist's office that operates on the second floor will remain in place.

The Milton Avenue location is Blackhawk Bank's eighth branch. The bank has other branches in Beloit and in the Illinois communities of Belvidere, Rockford, Machesney Park and Roscoe.

Meier said Blackhawk Bank plans to update the interior and exterior at 2525 Milton Ave. She said people can check out photos of that work on the bank's Facebook page.

Blackhawk Bank expects the new location will open in September, with a grand opening sometime in October.

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