The Wells Fargo Bank branch at 1800 Chamberlayne Ave. in North Side is permanently closing Sept. 8.
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Richmond’s banking desert grows
Outside of Downtown, the eastern half of Richmond – which tends to be largely African-American and Latino—has increasingly become a banking desert, bereft of branch banks that are more commonplace in the Downtown and western half of the city.