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 FY202656
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) loans33
SBA 504 loans23
Franchise share of loanswithheld
Rank among metro and micro areas for assisted living (without nursing care) loans10 of 321
Rank of assisted living (without nursing care) among the classes in this area13 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.04x
Median loan against the national median for the class0.99x

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

02468FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2018: 5Loans, FY2020: 6Loans, FY2021: 8Loans, FY2022: 6Loans, FY2023: 8
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY20185$9.8 million
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY20206$5.7 million
FY20218$4.8 million
FY20226$2.7 million
FY20238$16.8 million
FY2024withheldwithheld
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 504: lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Twin Cities-Metro Certified Development Company10$18.9 million
Central Minnesota Development Company7$8.5 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Hiawatha National Bank8$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

CountyLoans
Hennepin County, MN20
Ramsey County, MN8
Anoka County, MN7
Dakota County, MN6

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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