Still growing after more than a century, here’s how a small Brown County bank has stayed local since 1911

By Ariel Perez, for the Green Bay Press Gazette.

When the owners of the newest coffee shop in Allouez went looking for a loan to start the business, they found help in an unexpected place.

Larger regional banks were ready to lend, but GreenLeaf Bank, a small, family-owned bank in far southern Brown County not only jumped at the chance to do business with the shop, but also went above and beyond in helping them grow.

“We met with a really, really large bank where we had an account prior to GreenLeaf, but they were more focused on numbers,” said Chris Christen, co-owner of Coffee Wizardz, 535 Green Ave., in Allouez.

“They weren’t sending us leads for new clients, checking in on us or coming to our café. That was the big difference,” he added.

Customers say that personal touch has been a hallmark of GreenLeaf Bank and its predecessors since the early 1900s, and it’s a key to how the bank has managed to not just survive, but to grow over the last century.

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