This Capital One Bank at 18th Avenue and 67th Street has been in the works for over a year now. It finally opened recently. I’m not sure when. Was it last week? Maybe the week before?
I’m not sure, because I didn’t get a free hot dog for it.
It opened across the street from the no-longer-new TD Bank, which set the high bar for truly grand openings for bank branches last year with free hot dogs, animal balloons, and live music. All without even setting foot inside of the bank.
I’m not sayin’ TD is a better bank than Capital… I’m just sayin’ TD puts on a better show.
Photo credit: Brian Hedden
At the start of 2008, an old Childs Restaurant building on the corner of 18th Avenue and 68th Street was razed to make way for a new Walgreens and Commerce Bank. The Walgreens went up and opened before I even realized what was happening. The Commerce has been much slower – so slow, it’s not even Commerce Bank anymore. They were all turned into TD Banks last November.
Well, this branch of the Toronto Dominion is almost ready. Complete with…
…the Penny Arcade, the famous (and free) coin counter of the Commerce/TD franchise. You know the drill, right? You bring in your coins, guess how much money you have, and pour the coins in. If you are within a dollar of the actual amount, you get at TOTALLY AWESOME FREE GIFT! (OK, usually a pen that says TD Bank.) And of course you get the paper bills in exchange for your coins, without paying 9% like you would with Coinstar.
