Fitness Center Feasibility Study in the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about fitness center lending in the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

How North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota ranks for fitness center

Ordered across metro and micro areas, North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL comes in 55 of 608; SBA approved 43 loans there from FY2017 to FY2026, worth $19.4 million. North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota's fitness center share of loans is 1.08x the share seen nationally: North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota tilts to the class. Among North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota's classes it ranks 3 of 39. All of North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota's loans sit in FL.

In North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, the median loan is $350,000, while the central half spans $150,000 to $477,400. That median is 1.35x the class median nationally, so North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota borrowers draw bigger loans. Loan Analytics withholds the program split because the counts behind it are thin, and that silence is not nil. Franchised loans make up 60.5% of the class.

North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota holders and counties for fitness center

Under 7(a), the one holder listed is The Huntington National Bank, with 12 loans worth $3.7 million. The 504 table for North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota is empty. Each North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota row is an SBA record. The North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota lenders named hold or held them. North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota rows speak to files, not policy. No North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota row says what a lender requires. North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota place by place: 27 loans sit in Sarasota County, FL, followed by Manatee County, FL at 16.

Year by year, the record shows FY2019 with 5 loans and $3.4 million and FY2023 with 8 loans and $4.4 million. Loan Analytics withholds FY2017, FY2018, FY2020 through FY2022 and FY2024 through FY2026 because the counts are thin, so those gaps mean unpublished, never zero. With most years withheld, no trend can be drawn from this cell. Cancellation is left blank because only a small cohort stands behind it (under 30 loans), and no charge-off rate is printed either. All totals use the federal lines of July 2023; each project is placed by county, and any county that cannot be matched is excluded.

A fitness center study for North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota: the tests

The fitness center figures here are background; a study decides. It should test member churn and retention, membership volume against nearby households, franchise fees where a brand applies, replacement cycles for equipment, and coverage in the months before memberships build. Demand, cost, coverage and value are the four tests, and the 43 loans above guarantee nothing to a lender.

SBA fitness center loans in the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202643
Gross dollars approved$19.4 million
Median loan$350,000
Middle half of loans, from$150,000
Middle half of loans, to$477,400
SBA 7(a) loanswithheld
SBA 504 loanswithheld
Franchise share of loans60.5%
Rank among metro and micro areas for fitness center loans55 of 608
Rank of fitness center among the classes in this area3 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.08x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.35x

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 North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL Metro Area, by fiscal year

02468FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2019: 5Loans, FY2023: 8
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY2018withheldwithheld
FY20195$3.4 million
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY2021withheldwithheld
FY2022withheldwithheld
FY20238$4.4 million
FY2024withheldwithheld
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 Bank12$3.7 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
Sarasota County, FL27
Manatee County, FL16

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-35840-C33.

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