Fitness Center Feasibility Study in the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL Metro Area
What SBA's own loan files show about fitness center lending in the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.
Fitness in Lee County
Ranking classes, fitness center comes in at 4 of 39 for Cape Coral-Fort Myers; counting areas, Cape Coral-Fort Myers is 73 of 608 for fitness center. Every one of the 29 approved loans, worth $15.0 million, is in Lee County, dated FY2017 to FY2026. Cape Coral-Fort Myers carries a location quotient of 0.96x: fitness center loans claim a thinner share there than nationally. At 0.96x the share is close to the national one, so what stands out in Cape Coral-Fort Myers is the loan size and the brand share instead of the weight of the class.
Half of the loans exceed $401,000, which is 1.55x the national median for fitness centers, and the inner half of loans spans $200,000 to $650,000. Brand affiliation covers 62.1% of the loans, a high share, so a proposal in this cell is most often a branded one. SBA's data in Cape Coral-Fort Myers does not show the way the Cape Coral-Fort Myers loans divide between the two SBA programs for Cape Coral-Fort Myers. Everything above describes SBA loans in Cape Coral-Fort Myers; other money for fitness center projects in Cape Coral-Fort Myers lies outside these figures.
Holder and years
The Huntington National Bank holds 8 of the 7(a) loans, $2.5 million in SBA's records. No judgement of a lender's practice is offered or implied. The page prints two years: FY2023 at no loans and $0 and FY2024: 8 loans and $2.5 million. Both are complete fiscal years, so the zero is a real count. We withhold Cape Coral-Fort Myers's both loss-side rates as the Cape Coral-Fort Myers FY2017-to-FY2021 pool contains fewer than 30 loans, and in Cape Coral-Fort Myers our own rule takes over. A missing rate in Cape Coral-Fort Myers is never a zero.
For a lender, the combination of a high median and a high brand share means most requests are branded and big for fitness center; this Cape Coral-Fort Myers page does not record what the money was used for. Borrowers, the practical point is that a request near the Cape Coral-Fort Myers median meets branded comparables. Because one county holds every shown loan, the record offers nothing on how projects elsewhere in the metro area fare.
What to test in a project in Cape Coral-Fort Myers
For Lee County, a fitness study should say how many members the site wins, then weigh gear and buildout beside a loan near the elevated $401,000 median. Payment cover must hold under slow membership growth, and under a franchise fee and brand standards if a brand applies. The lease should outrun the loan, and the real estate requires an appraisal of its own. The federal county grouping defines Cape Coral-Fort Myers; so loans from counties Cape Coral-Fort Myers cannot match are excluded from the totals.
SBA fitness center loans in the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL Metro Area
| Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026 | 29 |
|---|---|
| Gross dollars approved | $15.0 million |
| Median loan | $401,000 |
| Middle half of loans, from | $200,000 |
| Middle half of loans, to | $650,000 |
| SBA 7(a) loans | withheld |
| SBA 504 loans | withheld |
| Franchise share of loans | 62.1% |
| Rank among metro and micro areas for fitness center loans | 73 of 608 |
| Rank of fitness center among the classes in this area | 4 of 39 |
| Location quotient (share of loans against the national share) | 0.96x |
| Median loan against the national median for the class | 1.55x |
Cancellation and charge-off
| Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor) | not reported: fewer than 30 loans in the cohort |
|---|---|
| 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 fitness center loans approved in the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL Metro Area, by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Loans | Dollars |
|---|---|---|
| FY2017 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2018 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2019 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2020 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2021 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2022 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2023 | 0 | $0 |
| FY2024 | 8 | $2.5 million |
| FY2025 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2026 | withheld | withheld |
Most active SBA lenders
| Lender | Loans | Dollars |
|---|---|---|
| The Huntington National Bank | 8 | $2.5 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 |
|---|---|
| Lee County, FL | 29 |
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.
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-15980-C33.
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