Fitness Center Feasibility Study in the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about fitness center lending in the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Where San Antonio stands for this class

The San Antonio total comes to 93 approved loans for fitness centers, valued at $39.0 million in gross dollars, on this record, among the FY2017 to FY2026 window. Compared with the nation, health clubs fill a larger place of San Antonio lending, a location quotient of 1.37x. Half of the approved loans fall between $150,000 and $403,000. In rank terms, San Antonio is 33 of 608 among metro and micro areas, and fitness centers are fifth of the 39 classes counted for San Antonio. The local midpoint is $273,100, which lands at 1.05x the nationwide class median and puts local loans on par with the country.

Who holds fitness center loans around San Antonio

For San Antonio, the itemize of 504 holders has no entry for health clubs. This San Antonio cell withholds its program counts for gyms and fitness centers, since one program has under 30 loans, below Loan Analytics' threshold for printing. The franchise share of San Antonio approvals is 65.6%. On the 7(a) side, for now, The Huntington National Bank leads at 16; next are Simmons Bank (8) plus Frost Bank (7). Each name listed is the current holder of loans as SBA reports it, so the names show current holders only and imply nothing regarding any bank's requirements.

San Antonio by county and fiscal year

Just a single project county matters for health clubs in San Antonio: Bexar County, TX, at 70 loans. Volume was highest in FY2025, with 14 approvals worth $6.0 million, and lowest in FY2022, with 5 loans worth $2.1 million.

Floors and limits behind the San Antonio figures

The charge-off rate is absent for San Antonio: only a few funded health clubs loans from FY2017 to FY2021 are too small, and the gap states nothing about losses at all. A floor of 9.7% of health clubs approvals in San Antonio ended in cancellation after approval among FY2017 to FY2024, at the source, a floor; the matching ceiling does not print at the source. San Antonio gym and fitness loans are placed by looking up the county SBA lists for the project and matching its name to the July 2023 metropolitan lines.

What a study of health clubs in San Antonio has to test

A feasibility study for health clubs in San Antonio begins with demand: joins, cancellations and counts, and price tier against rivals. The 93 approvals show that banks have funded the class in San Antonio; they do not show a single site meets the same bar. Costs to price include a lease the landlord accepts and equipment replacement cycles; the sum is then set beside San Antonio approvals of $150,000 to $403,000, with $273,100 at the center. The analysis must print debt service coverage for health clubs in San Antonio in a slow-ramp case; the minimums for loss on this page are the reason why. Last, the appraisal of a San Antonio site for health clubs should address equipment outliving the lease, along with landlord consent terms.

SBA fitness center loans in the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202693
Gross dollars approved$39.0 million
Median loan$273,100
Middle half of loans, from$150,000
Middle half of loans, to$403,000
SBA 7(a) loanswithheld
SBA 504 loanswithheld
Franchise share of loans65.6%
Rank among metro and micro areas for fitness center loans33 of 608
Rank of fitness center among the classes in this area5 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.37x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.05x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)9.7%
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 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area, by fiscal year

051015FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 6Loans, FY2018: 12Loans, FY2019: 7Loans, FY2020: 10Loans, FY2021: 11Loans, FY2022: 5Loans, FY2023: 12Loans, FY2024: 9Loans, FY2025: 14Loans, FY2026: 7
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY20176$3.9 million
FY201812$3.1 million
FY20197$3.5 million
FY202010$5.6 million
FY202111$5.9 million
FY20225$2.1 million
FY202312$4.2 million
FY20249$3.0 million
FY202514$6.0 million
FY20267$1.9 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$4.8 million
Simmons Bank8$2.0 million
Frost Bank7$5.7 million
LiftFund, Inc.7$1.1 million
Live Oak Banking Company6$4.5 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
Bexar County, TX70
Comal County, TX11

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-41700-C33.

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