Worked Example: SBA 504 Hotel Feasibility Study in Washington
A worked example of the feasibility study a lender would read for a hotel project in Washington, financed with an SBA 504 loan.
What SBA's own loan files show about lending in the Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA Metro Area, every asset class together, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.
504 approvals within Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA over FY2017 to FY2026 come to $294.1 million in gross dollars. For context, Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard places 164 of 928 among all core-based areas on approvals. Then, $210,000 is the typical loan; the central half lies between $50,000 and $597,750. The median in Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard stands at 1.01x compared with the median nationwide, so a usual ticket lands over the country's norm. In practice, Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard counts only projects inside its borders, never a state's blend: 504 loans in all.
467 SBA 7(a) loans sit beside 37 loans under 504. Here, 11.3% of the loans on file carry franchisees in Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard. In addition, for 7(a) lending, the biggest names by loans appear as Columbia Bank (OR) at 98 loans worth $9.2 million, KeyBank National Association with 36 loans and $10.5 million, plus Heritage Bank (WA) at 34 loans worth $13.7 million. Across 504 loans, the biggest program intermediaries by count appear as Evergreen Business Capital booking 15 loans for $6.1 million and Northwest Business Development Association at 11 loans totalling $7.1 million. Lender names come from SBA data on 504 approvals; they show completed approvals only, never the standards that lenders ask for around Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard.
40 for full-service restaurant, 38 for gas station and truck stop, limited-service restaurant with 15, and hotel and motel with 11 top the class table by approvals. 328 approvals lie beyond the named classes, so the 504-loan file covers more than any class table. 5 loans in fitness center within Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard form too thin a base for any claim. Kitsap County carries all of 504 loans, so area and county match. Across the years, FY2017 kicks off at 53 loans and $34.8 million; FY2025 is the peak at 68 loans and $30.3 million, then FY2026 concludes the record at 61 loans and $40.5 million.
12.0% of FY2017 to FY2024 loans in Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard were cancelled before they funded, a floor. The upper figure on this page stays withheld, so only the floor stands. Separately, 2.5% of FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans in Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard were charged off, which is a floor, out of 204 disbursed loans. Also, a five-year figure is not released for Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, and the to-date floor stands alone. Separately, treat each share printed here as a minimum, as loans approved lately have had limited runway to fall through or default; the file has 504 loans in all. Separately, each area on the page is defined as the core-based area which includes a loan's home county, per the July 2023 definitions as adopted; project counties get matched name to name, while a project with a county cannot be assigned is left out of all areas by design. Inside and outside the classes, each approval under 7(a) or 504 in Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard is added into its $294.1 million total.
Around Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, a proper study for a building must begin with the subject property, instead of the 504-loan file. Worth noting: market demand in Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard comes first: does Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard's household base support the volume needed, net of nearby competition in and near Kitsap County? For context, the area median comes to 1.01x of the country's median, so costs here could run ahead for some trades; price the real scope against tenders from local contractors. Debt service coverage links revenue to cost in Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard: projected net operating income compared with the payments due, along with a stress case. Beyond that, finally, the appraisal caps the work for Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard: value as built must carry the request asked for. A borrower holding an arm's-length written study for Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, ahead of speaking with a lender, has met these rates early; approval stays with the bank and SBA for Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, not the study's author.
| Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026 | 504 |
|---|---|
| Gross dollars approved | $294.1 million |
| Median loan | $210,000 |
| Middle half of loans, from | $50,000 |
| Middle half of loans, to | $597,750 |
| SBA 7(a) loans | 467 |
| SBA 504 loans | 37 |
| Franchise share of loans | 11.3% |
| Rank among metro and micro areas by loans | 164 of 928 |
| Median loan against the national median | 1.01x |
| Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor) | 12.0% |
|---|---|
| The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling) | withheld |
| Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor) | 2.5% |
| Charged off within five years of approval | withheld |
| Loans in that cohort | 204 |
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 loans approved in the Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA Metro Area, by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Loans | Dollars |
|---|---|---|
| FY2017 | 53 | $34.8 million |
| FY2018 | 47 | $30.0 million |
| FY2019 | 35 | $34.9 million |
| FY2020 | 51 | $34.1 million |
| FY2021 | 46 | $32.1 million |
| FY2022 | 41 | $20.4 million |
| FY2023 | 39 | $20.2 million |
| FY2024 | 63 | $16.8 million |
| FY2025 | 68 | $30.3 million |
| FY2026 | 61 | $40.5 million |
| Asset class | Loans |
|---|---|
| Not in any of the 39 asset classes | 328 |
| Full-service restaurant | 40 |
| Gas station and truck stop | 38 |
| Limited-service restaurant | 15 |
| Hotel and motel | 11 |
| Dental office | 10 |
| Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck) | 8 |
| Veterinary clinic | 6 |
| Child care center | 6 |
| Beauty salon | 6 |
| Nonresidential lessor (flex, office and retail investor buildings) | 5 |
| Rehabilitation and therapy clinic | 5 |
| Fitness center | 5 |
Classes with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are withheld, and more where a small one could be derived.
| Lender | Loans | Dollars |
|---|---|---|
| Evergreen Business Capital | 15 | $6.1 million |
| Northwest Business Development Association | 11 | $7.1 million |
| Lender | Loans | Dollars |
|---|---|---|
| Columbia Bank (OR) | 98 | $9.2 million |
| KeyBank National Association | 36 | $10.5 million |
| Heritage Bank (WA) | 34 | $13.7 million |
| U.S. Bank, National Association | 28 | $8.2 million |
| Wells Fargo Bank National Association | 18 | $5.4 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.
| County | Loans |
|---|---|
| Kitsap County, WA | 504 |
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.
All assets: every 7(a) and 504 approval in the metro, including those outside the 39 asset classes.
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 MT-14740.
A worked example of the feasibility study a lender would read for a hotel project in Washington, financed with an SBA 504 loan.
Loan Analytics prepares the feasibility study a lender reads before it commits: for a commercial project in the Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA Metro Area, financed under SBA 7(a), SBA 504, USDA Business and Industry or a conventional bank loan. Tell us the project and the lender's deadline, and we reply with scope, timeline and fee.
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