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 FY202629
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) loanswithheld
SBA 504 loanswithheld
Franchise share of loans62.1%
Rank among metro and micro areas for fitness center loans73 of 608
Rank of fitness center among the classes in this area4 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)0.96x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.55x

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

02468FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2023: 0Loans, FY2024: 8
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY2018withheldwithheld
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY2021withheldwithheld
FY2022withheldwithheld
FY20230$0
FY20248$2.5 million
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
The Huntington National Bank8$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

CountyLoans
Lee County, FL29

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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