Commerce Bank Rebuffed

Recently, representatives from Commerce Bank were going up and down Hawkins Avenue trying to get local merchants to change banks and come bank with them. They got an earful from many local shopkeepers. Many told Commerce Bank representatives that their corporate policies of refusing to work with local communities and their insistence on cutting down trees and destroying pristine property instead of redeveloping a previously developed site, means that they will never become customers of Commerce Bank.
Local businesses understand that when large corporations ignore the redevelopment goals and revitalization efforts of communities, that it makes it much harder to sustain a vital downtown business district. One would think that a bank, which depends on the business of local merchants, would be more sensitive to community planning efforts. It may be too late for our community, but maybe, just maybe, by hitting Commerce Bank in the wallet they might change their policies before they inflict themselves on the next community.