Grant Lauderdale
FirstBank is planting a bigger flag in Birmingham, where it has opened a loan office and hired two bankers with more than 40 years of combined experience to build a regional consumer and commercial team.
Downtown-based FirstBank has been active in Alabama for a decade; it acquired a Birmingham-based mortgage broker in 2011 and now has seven home lending offices across the state as well as full-service branches in Huntsville and Florence. The latter housed about $105 million in deposits last summer. Its new loan office is based in a mortgage office on the south side of Birmingham and is being lead by Central Alabama President Grant Lauderdale and Birmingham market leader Christoper Robbins.