Worked Example: SBA 7(a) Flex-Serve Car Wash Feasibility Study in Texas
A worked example of the feasibility study a lender would read for a car wash project in Texas, financed with an SBA 7(a) loan.
What SBA's own loan files show about lending in the Granbury, TX Micro Area, every asset class together, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.
For Granbury, SBA's own files list 114 approvals over FY2017 to FY2026, totalling $83.5 million in gross approvals. Granbury lands across all such areas nationwide, on approval count, number 445 of 928. The core of Granbury lending sits between $120,350 and $927,600, with a median near $434,700; that puts the median at 2.09x the national median. Around Hood County, TX, SBA 7(a) carries 105 loans, against 9 under SBA 504. Franchises make up 21.1% of approvals.
Worth noting, among the listed classes we name for Granbury, full-service restaurant is largest with 7 loans, and then limited-service restaurant, 7 loans and self storage with 5. Another 73 loans in Granbury sit outside every class. Every loan in Granbury falls in Hood County, TX, at 114 loans, so a feasibility study around Granbury a single-county exercise.
Institutions shown for Granbury are found in SBA's published Granbury records of the 114 approvals in Granbury, by present or former holder; such records assign each holder but offer nothing on lender practice. Further, on the 7(a) side around Hood County, TX, SBA's records name PNC Bank, National Association (10 loans, $4.3 million), followed by Live Oak Banking Company at 8 loans and $10.7 million. A borrower near Hood County, TX should ask the Granbury lender PNC Bank, National Association or other Granbury holders near Hood County, TX what evidence it expects, then fit the Granbury study around those requests.
Next, no charge-off rate for Granbury is not published on this page, since too few Granbury loans were paid out. That gap, near Hood County, TX, cannot be read as a clean record. Worth noting, on the calendar, Granbury peaked in FY2025 at 18 loans and $4.5 million, and was weakest in FY2026 at 6 loans and $7.1 million.
For Granbury, begin with demand: who passes in Hood County, TX, who commutes in, measured against Granbury overall, and what gap the 7 full-service restaurant loans leave. Cost next: $434,700 is the Granbury median and $120,350 to $927,600 the middle band, so a Hood County, TX site must justify its budget against this $434,700 benchmark. Then coverage: Granbury coverage outlasts a soft year against the cancellation floor, which is withheld here for lack of loans, with the charge-off rate for Granbury, which is also withheld since the cohort is thin. The Hood County, TX appraisal needs to agree with the figure the loan uses. Granbury applies the July 2023 delineation; any loan whose listed county is unmapped is missing from all areas, Granbury as well, yet the totals include loans not in the classes named.
| Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026 | 114 |
|---|---|
| Gross dollars approved | $83.5 million |
| Median loan | $434,700 |
| Middle half of loans, from | $120,350 |
| Middle half of loans, to | $927,600 |
| SBA 7(a) loans | 105 |
| SBA 504 loans | 9 |
| Franchise share of loans | 21.1% |
| Rank among metro and micro areas by loans | 445 of 928 |
| Median loan against the national median | 2.09x |
| 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 loans approved in the Granbury, TX Micro Area, by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Loans | Dollars |
|---|---|---|
| FY2017 | 13 | $4.8 million |
| FY2018 | 7 | $4.6 million |
| FY2019 | 8 | $9.5 million |
| FY2020 | 7 | $4.7 million |
| FY2021 | 15 | $18.7 million |
| FY2022 | 10 | $11.2 million |
| FY2023 | 15 | $8.0 million |
| FY2024 | 15 | $10.4 million |
| FY2025 | 18 | $4.5 million |
| FY2026 | 6 | $7.1 million |
| Asset class | Loans |
|---|---|
| Not in any of the 39 asset classes | 73 |
| Full-service restaurant | 7 |
| Limited-service restaurant | 7 |
| Self storage | 5 |
Classes with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are withheld, and more where a small one could be derived.
| Lender | Loans | Dollars |
|---|---|---|
| PNC Bank, National Association | 10 | $4.3 million |
| Live Oak Banking Company | 8 | $10.7 million |
| PlainsCapital Bank | 8 | $4.1 million |
| Newtek Bank, National Association | 8 | $1.3 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.
| County | Loans |
|---|---|
| Hood County, TX | 114 |
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.
All assets: every 7(a) and 504 approval in the metro, including those outside the 39 asset classes.
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 MT-24180.
A worked example of the feasibility study a lender would read for a car wash project in Texas, financed with an SBA 7(a) loan.
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