Fitness Center Feasibility Study in the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about fitness center lending in the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Salt Lake City: fitness center

Salt Lake City approved fitness center loans: 78 in FY2017 to FY2026, worth $30.7 million. Salt Lake City ranks 37 of 608 for the class on 78 loans among metro areas; in Salt Lake City, the class ranks 5 of 39. Salt Lake City's location quotient reads 0.86x on 78 loans: a lighter concentration. In Salt Lake City, ranks and the 0.86x quotient, from 78 loans, distinguish the class; Salt Lake City size is 1.04x the national median.

$270,000 marks the median of 78 loans, close to the national figure (1.04x), and $89,025 to $497,675 bounds Salt Lake City's middle half. Salt Lake City program split: withheld, not zero. 64.1% is the franchise share of 78 loans; the rest are independents.

Salt Lake City's 7(a) table, 16 loans at The Huntington National Bank, $5.8 million; 6 at Central Bank (UT), $2.0 million; 5 at Zions Bancorporation, National Association, $720,800. Salt Lake City: holders under 5 loans go unnamed. Salt Lake City county counts, 78 loans: Salt Lake County, UT 78.

The Salt Lake City loans' fate

9.4% at minimum: Salt Lake City's cancelled share through FY2024. Salt Lake City's ceiling for undisbursed loans: withheld. Salt Lake City charge-offs: too few, not zero. Salt Lake City floors may rise with open loans. Salt Lake City approvals ran from 9 loans and $2.7 million in FY2019 to 12 loans and $4.5 million in FY2026, peaking at 13 in FY2025 and dipping to 6 in FY2020. Salt Lake City loans per year: FY2019 9, FY2020 6, FY2021 8, FY2023 9, FY2024 6, FY2025 13, FY2026 12. Yearly dollars: FY2019 $2.7 million, FY2020 $1.5 million, FY2021 $1.8 million, FY2023 $3.7 million, FY2024 $1.5 million, FY2025 $4.9 million, FY2026 $4.5 million. Withheld Salt Lake City years are not zero.

Salt Lake City: the study's tests

Across 78 loans, membership retention in Salt Lake City carries $270,000. Salt Lake City: facing weak signups, debt service holds with $30.7 million approved. For 78 loans in Salt Lake City, buildout costs outside $89,025 to $497,675 need cases. For 78 approvals in Salt Lake City, appraisers weigh lease and membership. Salt Lake City approvals ran from 6 in FY2020 to 13 in FY2025; for Salt Lake City, plan for slow signups. Salt Lake City's quotient, 0.86x: count rivals by price tier.

Salt Lake City's 78 loans are placed by project county. Salt Lake City follows the July 2023 delineation. Salt Lake City drops unplaceable counties from $30.7 million. Treat 78 loans as a guide to Salt Lake City, not a census.

SBA fitness center loans in the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202678
Gross dollars approved$30.7 million
Median loan$270,000
Middle half of loans, from$89,025
Middle half of loans, to$497,675
SBA 7(a) loanswithheld
SBA 504 loanswithheld
Franchise share of loans64.1%
Rank among metro and micro areas for fitness center loans37 of 608
Rank of fitness center among the classes in this area5 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)0.86x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.04x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)9.4%
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 fitness center loans approved in the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT Metro Area, by fiscal year

051015FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2019: 9Loans, FY2020: 6Loans, FY2021: 8Loans, FY2023: 9Loans, FY2024: 6Loans, FY2025: 13Loans, FY2026: 12
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY2018withheldwithheld
FY20199$2.7 million
FY20206$1.5 million
FY20218$1.8 million
FY2022withheldwithheld
FY20239$3.7 million
FY20246$1.5 million
FY202513$4.9 million
FY202612$4.5 million

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 Bank16$5.8 million
Central Bank (UT)6$2.0 million
Zions Bancorporation, National Association5$720,800

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
Salt Lake County, UT78

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-41620-C33.

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