Tom Ogaard’s bank has financed everything from fishing boats to grocery stores in Indian Country. Its next project may come in someplace a little more urban.

“When I got here, we had 16 people, and now there’s over 40. We need to think about what it looks like three to five years down the road or even longer, and plan for that,” said Ogaard, the president and CEO of Native American Bank.

The bank, headquartered at 201 N. Broadway in Denver since 2019 , purchased a 0.55-acre site a block north at 341-351 N. Broadway for $4 million last month from a family that had owned the property for decades.

Enterprise, the car rental firm, has a lease on the site that runs through late 2026. In the meantime, Ogaard will decide whether to build a new headquarters for the bank on the site.

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