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Michigan Firm to Buy Bank in San Jose

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The expected wave of acquisitions by out-of-state banks might have started Wednesday, when San Jose-based Plaza Commerce Bancorp agreed to be bought by a Michigan bank in 1991.

The agreement, in which Comerica of Detroit will pay $117 million for Plaza Commerce, marked the first time a California bank has entered into such an agreement in anticipation of the new interstate banking laws.

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