Interior of a Farmers National Bank Lab Branch in Canfield.
Farmers National Bank will open a new office in Canton later this year that also will mark the community bank's second tech-enabled Lab Branch.
Parent company Farmers National Banc Corp. said the branch, located at 5443 Whipple Ave. NW near I-77 and the Belden Village Mall, is slated to open in the fourth quarter of this year.
While there are always some exceptions, community banks are more likely to add brick-and-mortar locations to their branch networks compared with their larger regional bank counterparts, many of which are working to shrink their branch footprints as customers increasingly shift toward digital banking options. The pandemic accelerated that digital shift by several years.