Interesting year on horizon for Calusa Bank

Charlotte County-based Calusa Bank's recent successful growth in Venice has gone so well executives hope to move even further north into Sarasota County in 2015.

The next location, projects Calusa Bank President Todd Katz, will be in downtown Sarasota, likely sometime in 2015. Katz tells Coffee Talk the bank's October expansion in Venice, from a loan production office to a full-service branch, “is going better than expected. It's being very well received.”

Founded in 2007, Calusa has had an office in Sarasota County, in North Port, for five years. The $166.7 million asset bank has two Charlotte County locations, one in Port Charlotte and a headquarters in Punta Gorda.