Fitness Center Feasibility Study in the Springfield, MO Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about fitness center lending in the Springfield, MO Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Fitness center in Springfield: the loan record

Springfield gets 35 loans approved for fitness center, $11.5 million gross, from FY2017 to FY2026. Springfield, for fitness center, ranks 65 of 608 in the area ranking. Within Springfield, fitness center ranks 4 of 39. Springfield's quotient is 1.15x: fitness center above the national share.

Springfield size and franchise status

Springfield shows half its loans at or under $191,000, with the middle half spanning $108,150 up to $367,700. Springfield stands at 0.74x against the national class median. Springfield loans run below the national middle. Springfield has 28 loans under 7(a). Springfield has 7 under 504. Springfield 504 loans fund property and equipment. In Springfield, 7(a) adds working capital or acquisitions. Springfield franchise share of loans is 31.4%. Springfield loans run smaller, so Springfield overruns weigh more.

Springfield holders and counties

Holder in Springfield: OakStar Bank, 8 loans, $2.1 million, SBA 7(a). Springfield SBA 504 holder: 7 loans, $3.8 million, Rural Missouri, Inc.. Listed Springfield names are current holders, per SBA. Springfield rows speak to files, not requirements. Springfield borrowers see holders, not lenders. Springfield has one county, Greene County, MO, with all 25 loans.

Springfield years, floors and coding limits

Springfield prints only these fiscal years. In FY2017, Springfield had 6 loans worth $728,000. In FY2018, Springfield had 5 loans worth $1.1 million. In FY2020, Springfield had 5 loans worth $1.4 million. Other Springfield years stay blank on thin counts. Springfield blanks are silence, never zero, and Springfield treats FY2026 as complete. Springfield floors follow Loan Analytics' own rule. That Springfield cohort holds fewer than 30 loans. The Springfield cohort covers FY2017 to FY2021 disbursements. So Springfield prints no cancellation floor. So Springfield prints no charge-off floor. Springfield's blank floor is no zero. Springfield borrowers learn little from it. Any Springfield rate that prints is a floor. Springfield borders come from the July 2023 list. Springfield places each loan by project county. Springfield drops loans with unplaceable counties.

Springfield: testing a fitness center project

Springfield fitness center requests start from the $191,000 median, a first yardstick in Springfield. A fitness center study in Springfield starts with membership: how many members the floor can hold, what they pay, and how many stay. In Springfield, churn is the quiet risk, so the study tests coverage in a year when joins fall short of the plan. A Springfield lender will ask what equipment costs, how long it lasts, and whether the lease on the space allows the layout. Daniel Smith, MAI, signs each Springfield study. Springfield demand and cost come first. In Springfield, coverage follows, then the appraisal. No Springfield approval is promised by any study.

SBA fitness center loans in the Springfield, MO Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202635
Gross dollars approved$11.5 million
Median loan$191,000
Middle half of loans, from$108,150
Middle half of loans, to$367,700
SBA 7(a) loans28
SBA 504 loans7
Franchise share of loans31.4%
Rank among metro and micro areas for fitness center loans65 of 608
Rank of fitness center among the classes in this area4 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.15x
Median loan against the national median for the class0.74x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)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 Springfield, MO Metro Area, by fiscal year

0246FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 6Loans, FY2018: 5Loans, FY2020: 5
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY20176$728,000
FY20185$1.1 million
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY20205$1.4 million
FY2021withheldwithheld
FY2022withheldwithheld
FY2023withheldwithheld
FY2024withheldwithheld
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 504: lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Rural Missouri, Inc.7$3.8 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
OakStar Bank8$2.1 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
Greene County, MO25

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-44180-C33.

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