Key Bank renovates and upgrades Ypsilanti branch

Key Bank has decided its building could use a little home improvement. Following up on the renovation of its downtown Ann Arbor branch, it’s launched its latest improvement project, a $1 million face lift to its Ypsilanti branch.

“We had not paid a whole lot of attention to our brick and mortar for a number of years for a variety of reasons,” says Michelle Andrews, a vice president with Key Bank. “We are totally renovating the building bottom to top.”

The building, on Michigan Avenue southwest of downtown, was built in the 1960s and had not received much in the way of improvements since then. The current renovation, part of the bank’s pilot program to improve its branches, is adding a restroom, new walls, fresh floors and a community room by the building’s entrance.

Key Bank expects to finish work on the renovation by the end of the month. It is complimenting the recently undertaken restoration of the bank’s regional headquarters in downtown Ann Arbor.

Source: Michelle Andrews, a vice president with Key Bank
Writer: Jon Zemke