Andreas Kapetanopoulos. Photo courtesy of NBT Bank.

New York-based NBT Bank plans to open a branch in Glastonbury and relocate to a larger office in West Hartford as it moves forward with the bank’s expansion into Connecticut.

NBT Bank had announced its Connecticut expansion in 2019. The bank has been operating for more than a year out of temporary office space in West Hartford center, Andreas Kapetanopoulos, NBT Bank Connecticut regional president, said in a statement emailed to The Commercial Record. The bank has been providing business and commercial services for the Greater Hartford area, and Kapetanopoulos said the team would expand services by relocating to a larger site in West Hartford.

“We are demonstrating our commitment to the region by establishing this new long-term presence from locations on both sides of the Connecticut River,” he said.

The Glastonbury branch will be at 2670 Main St. in the town’s central business district. The office was formerly a United Bank branch that closed as part of People’s United Bank’s branch consolidation following its November 2019 acquisition of United Bank. NBT filed notice on Feb. 1 with its federal regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, about the plans to open the Glastonbury branch.

Kapetanopoulos said the new Glastonbury office and West Hartford site “will both serve their community’s personal and business banking needs, pending regulatory approvals.”

Based in Norwich, New York, NBT has about $10.9 billion in assets and entered the New England region in 2009 with the opening of its Vermont Regional Headquarters in Burlington. The bank now has locations in Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine.