First Charter Bank

[4] Bob Bratton became Chief Financial Officer of Concord National Bank in 1977, serving in that position until 2005.

[5] The bank's operation center located in the former Cabarrus Theater, an art deco building built in 1939.

[3] On December 1, 1998, First Charter broke ground on a $35 million operations center in the UNC-Charlotte area, intended for as many as 800 employees.

[9] First Charter began moving to its new $40 million University Research Park headquarters in February 2001.

[10] In January 2006, First Charter opened three branches, its first in the North Carolina's Triangle, in former SouthTrust locations closed after that bank's purchase by Wachovia.