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For the first time, Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank held its annual shareholders meeting in Kansas City, a sign of the region’s growing importance to the fifth-largest bank in America.
In the past six years, while many other banks were retrenching, U.S. Bank set out on an expansion plan in the Kansas City area. The 151-year-old bank spent more than $250 million in the region. It built a data center and a customer service center. It expanded its branch network from 41 to 57, giving it the area's largest…