Even during the darkest days of the recession, Terri Salstrom, president/CEO of the $137 million Industrial Credit Union, always had big dreams for her cooperative.

For one, Salstrom believed that the Bellingham, Wash.-based ICU could one day be the source for business lending services in a community Forbes Magazine singled out in 2010 as one of the nation's top small metro areas for business investment.

Fast forward nine years later and ICU stands on the brink of new growth and development thanks to recently receiving a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund.

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