Business Bank of Nevada president and CEO John Geudry says being part of Summerlin Centre will help attract potential customers. Also supporting the project is the completion of the I-215 Beltway. "By early next year I-215 should be mostly freeway without having to veer onto frontage road stretches and stop at traffic lights, which should make this location easy to get to from almost anywhere in the valley," he says.

Howard F. Thompson and Associates is the project architect. Whiting Turner Contracting is the general contractor. Kracor Inc. is building a two-story 279-slip parking structure on the east side of the building. Another 318 surface parking spaces will be located on the south side of the building.

The construction schedule for this project calls for four weeks of grading followed by two weeks for pouring the foundation of the building. Whiting and Turner expect the project to be vertical in the latter part of July. The general contractor hopes to top out by October. The Bank and other tenants are scheduled to begin occupying the building by March or April of next year.

Business Bank of Nevada is an 11-year-old operation that is traded on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board. The Bank has seven branch offices in the state including three in Las Vegas, one in North Las Vegas, one in Reno, one in Carson City, and one in Minden. The Bank also has Loan Production Offices at Stateline in South Lake Tahoe and in Scottsdale, AZ. As of the end of March, the bank has total assets of $439 million.