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Utah’s first bank turns 150, touting its bond to ‘community’

From the Panic of 1873 to this year’s troubles, Zions Bank’s evolution ‘is story of Utah’s evolution,’ one business leader says.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Scott Anderson, president and chief executive officer of Zions Bank, looks through the retired vaults inside the historic Eagle Emporium at 102 South Main Street in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. As the bank transforms the space into a business resource center, it is said the building is the city’s “only remaining commercial structure built prior to the completion of the transcontinental railroad.”

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Scott Anderson, president and chief executive officer of Zions Bank, looks through the retired vaults inside the historic Eagle Emporium at 102 South Main Street in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. As the bank transforms the space into a business resource center, it is said the building is the city’s “only remaining commercial structure built prior to the completion of the transcontinental railroad.”