Assisted Living Feasibility Study in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area
What SBA's own loan files show about assisted living (without nursing care) lending in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.
Assisted living lending in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington: where the area stands
Ordered across metro and micro areas, Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI comes in 10 of 321; SBA approved 56 loans there from FY2017 to FY2026, worth $63.6 million. Counting assisted living loans, Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington stands at 1.04x the share seen nationally: Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington tracks the national weighting. Within Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington's own mix the class ranks 13 of 39, neither leading nor minor. This Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington area spans MN and WI, so loans cross state lines.
The median Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington loan comes to $753,500, with its middle half between $346,250 and $1.8 million. That median is 0.99x the class median nationally, so Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington loan sizes sit near the norm. By program, Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington shows 33 SBA 7(a) loans against 23 SBA 504 loans, a lender focus. For Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, 504 means property and heavy equipment. No franchise share is printed for Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, as counts are thin, and Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington brand status stays open.
Assisted living lenders in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington
Among 7(a) loans in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, the holders SBA lists are Hiawatha National Bank, 8 loans for $5.0 million. On the 504 side of Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, Twin Cities-Metro Certified Development Company, 10 loans for $18.9 million; and Central Minnesota Development Company, 7 loans for $8.5 million. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington rows are SBA records. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington lenders hold or held these loans. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington rows speak to files, not policy. No Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington row says what a lender requires. Across Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington counties, 20 loans sit in Hennepin County, MN, then Ramsey County, MN with 8, Anoka County, MN with 7 and Dakota County, MN with 6.
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington's published years show FY2018: 5 loans, $9.8 million, FY2020: 6 loans, $5.7 million, FY2021: 8 loans, $4.8 million, FY2022: 6 loans, $2.7 million and FY2023: 8 loans, $16.8 million. FY2017, FY2019 and FY2024 through FY2026 are held back for Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington on thin counts, so Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington's blanks are not quiet years. The FY2017 to FY2024 approvals recorded in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington were cancelled afterward, at a floor of 22.7%. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington has no published charge-off floor. A thin Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington cohort means unpublished. Counts for Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington use the July 2023 delineation, and each Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington project is placed by county, and Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington omits unmatched counties. In Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, only assisted living without nursing on site has its own code, memory care lacks one, and homes with nursing fall under other classes.
What a Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington assisted living study must prove
From this assisted living record in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI, a study moves to a single parcel. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington analysis should establish staffing and licensing cost by care level. The Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington file should document life-safety work in conversion or construction. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington reviewers will check beds and their income in the appraisal. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington lenders need the study to show existing homes and their reported occupancy. Lenders in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington will look for how nursing on site changes the class. For Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington: demand, cost, coverage, value. A Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington study guarantees nothing to lenders.
SBA assisted living (without nursing care) loans in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area
| Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026 | 56 |
|---|---|
| Gross dollars approved | $63.6 million |
| Median loan | $753,500 |
| Middle half of loans, from | $346,250 |
| Middle half of loans, to | $1.8 million |
| SBA 7(a) loans | 33 |
| SBA 504 loans | 23 |
| Franchise share of loans | withheld |
| Rank among metro and micro areas for assisted living (without nursing care) loans | 10 of 321 |
| Rank of assisted living (without nursing care) among the classes in this area | 13 of 39 |
| Location quotient (share of loans against the national share) | 1.04x |
| Median loan against the national median for the class | 0.99x |
Cancellation and charge-off
| Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor) | 22.7% |
|---|---|
| The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling) | withheld |
| Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor) | withheld |
Both rates are floors. SBA withholds the status of open loans, so a loan counts as charged off only once SBA reports it; a rate needs at least 30 loans in its cohort and is otherwise not reported.
SBA assisted living (without nursing care) loans approved in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area, by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Loans | Dollars |
|---|---|---|
| FY2017 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2018 | 5 | $9.8 million |
| FY2019 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2020 | 6 | $5.7 million |
| FY2021 | 8 | $4.8 million |
| FY2022 | 6 | $2.7 million |
| FY2023 | 8 | $16.8 million |
| FY2024 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2025 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2026 | withheld | withheld |
Most active SBA lenders
| Lender | Loans | Dollars |
|---|---|---|
| Twin Cities-Metro Certified Development Company | 10 | $18.9 million |
| Central Minnesota Development Company | 7 | $8.5 million |
| Lender | Loans | Dollars |
|---|---|---|
| Hiawatha National Bank | 8 | $5.0 million |
Lenders with 5 or more loans here; a lender with fewer is not listed, and loans SBA or a receiver holds are counted but never listed as a lender.
Where the loans are, by county
| County | Loans |
|---|---|
| Hennepin County, MN | 20 |
| Ramsey County, MN | 8 |
| Anoka County, MN | 7 |
| Dakota County, MN | 6 |
Counties with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are not listed.
Metro is the CBSA (metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area) of the loan's project county, July 2023 delineation (OMB Bulletin 23-01). The county is matched by name (manifests/ld2/county-cbsa-map.csv); a loan whose county cannot be placed in a 2023 CBSA is left out of every metro.
Only assisted living without on-site nursing has its own code; memory care has none. Assisted living with nursing is counted in the skilled nursing and continuing care retirement community classes.
Shared code: Assisted living WITH nursing is indexed to 623110 and 623311.
A value marked withheld rests on fewer than 5 loans, or is withheld so that such a figure cannot be derived from other published figures.
Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 loan-level FOIA files (data.sba.gov), as of 2026-09-30; areas from the U.S. Census Bureau CBSA delineation, July 2023 (OMB Bulletin 23-01); Loan Analytics metro cell MA-33460-C05.
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