F&M Trust expanding with new Harrisburg office

Expanding its presence in Dauphin County, F&M Trust has broken ground for an office in Harrisburg.

A subsidiary of Franklin Financial Services Corp., F&M Trust is a community bank with headquarters in Chambersburg and 22 banking locations in Pennsylvania and Maryland. The new office will be at 4765 Linglestown Road, and construction is scheduled to begin later this month, with an expected opening in late 2024.

The office will be the first new construction of a banking location since 2012, when F&M Trust opened its office at 6375 Carlisle Pike in Mechanicsburg.

“This community office has been a long time in coming,” F&M Trust President and CEO Tim Henry said in a statement. “It’s a natural progression of our growth and activity in the Capital Region, specifically Dauphin County, and the community has been very supportive and encouraging. We look forward to building lasting relationships with those who live, work, and do business here.”

Located near Colonial Golf and Tennis Club, the community office will expand the company’s presence in Dauphin County. In 2021, the bank opened a regional headquarters at 4050 Crums Mill Road.

According to a release, the community office will share architectural features with the bank’s corporate headquarters in Chambersburg. A new layout and advanced technology are also being featured. Along with a retail services pod, the building will have five offices for business banking and mortgage loan transactions, and a drive-up Interactive Teller Machine (ITM) rather than a traditional window. An ITM uses touch screens and video technology to offer a virtual banking experience that can also include a human representative.

“We worked alongside the internal development team to help design something that was going to be functional for the bank and will work hopefully for a long time,” said Nick Greyshock, Chief Financial Officer for A.P. Williams Construction of Harrisburg, which will build the community office. “This was quite different than just getting a set of plans, fitting a set of plans, then coming back and saying this doesn’t meet budget, this doesn’t fit the time frame. We really worked closely with the F&M Trust team to develop a successful project, and we appreciate all the time and commitment from everyone involved.”

F&M Trust teamed with Campbell Commercial Partners LLC of Lemoyne to purchase the property.

“After we leased F&M Trust their regional office in Dauphin County, what we heard was, ‘We need a community office for all the production we are doing,’ because some people still like the brick-and-mortar branches,” said Art Campell of Campbell Commercial Partners LLC. “We looked at a lot of sites and identified a great location on a corner next to other viable businesses. It was a great team effort between the current owners, A.P. Williams as the contractor, the municipality, and the attorneys involved, and we look forward to seeing a successful facility on the site.”