"The financial services firm wants to build a new branch and an adjacent retail building on the former site of a now-bulldozed Marie Callender's pie shop that closed in 2022, ending decades of operations for the popular restaurant. The project will leave the existing Meriwest Credit Union headquarters in place at its present location in San Jose. The credit union now operates a branch inside its main office at 5615 Chesbro Ave."
"Meriwest put in motion the endeavor to create an expanded operation at its headquarters site in May 2025, when it paid $9.6 million for the restaurant property. "Our vision is to expand our long-time headquarters into a Meriwest Campus, allowing us to expand our community engagement, better serve our community and our members, and strengthen our roots in San Jose," Lisa Pesta, president and CEO of Meriwest Credit Union, said at the time of the purchase."
"Construction crews have demolished the old restaurant property as a prelude to vertical construction of the new branch and retail building on a 1.1-acre site at the corner of Blossom Hill and Chesbro. The branch will total roughly 5,600 square feet, and the retail building will total about 2,000 square feet, documents on file with San Jose city planners show."
Meriwest Credit Union plans a campus-style expansion on a 1.1-acre corner lot at Blossom Hill and Chesbro in South San Jose. The credit union purchased the former Marie Callender's property for $9.6 million in May 2025 and has demolished the restaurant to prepare for vertical construction. Plans call for a standalone 5,600-square-foot branch at 620 Blossom Hill Rd and an adjacent roughly 2,000-square-foot retail building, while keeping the existing headquarters at 5615 Chesbro Ave. The expansion aims to increase community engagement and member service and continues Meriwest's organizational history dating to its 1961 IBM employee credit union roots. Land-use consultant Jerry Strangis described the project as an expansion of a very successful business.
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