Liquor Store Feasibility Study in the Colorado Springs, CO Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about liquor store lending in the Colorado Springs, CO Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Liquor store in Colorado Springs against the national picture

Ordered across metro and micro areas, Colorado Springs, CO comes in 17 of 426; SBA approved 66 loans there from FY2017 to FY2026, worth $42.1 million. Share of loans for liquor store in Colorado Springs comes to 3.12x the share seen nationally: liquor stores weigh heavily in local lending. Among Colorado Springs's classes it ranks 2 of 39. Each Colorado Springs project county is in CO.

A Colorado Springs loan at the median is $456,500; the middle half of loans runs from $303,000 to $695,000. That median is 1.01x the median nationally for the class, so the typical ticket matches the national one. Of the 66 loans, 59 sit in 7(a), the other 7 in 504, and franchise flags show on 0.00% of them.

Colorado Springs holders and counties for liquor store

On the 7(a) side in Colorado Springs, SBA lists one holder, Hanmi Bank, with 18 loans worth $14.3 million. No 504 holder is listed for Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs rows are SBA records. These Colorado Springs loans sit with the lenders named. The Colorado Springs table describes files, not practices. No Colorado Springs row says what a lender requires.

The yearly record for Colorado Springs lists FY2017 (7 loans, $2.5 million), FY2018 (7 loans, $4.4 million), FY2019 (5 loans, $1.9 million), FY2021 (10 loans, $7.3 million), FY2022 (9 loans, $6.4 million) and FY2024 (7 loans, $2.9 million). The other years are blank because Loan Analytics withholds thin counts, so those gaps mean unpublished, never zero. Approvals from FY2017 to FY2024 in Colorado Springs fell through after approval, a floor of 9.4%. Counting undisbursed loans, the ceiling is 9.4%. No charge-off floor is printed for Colorado Springs, because Loan Analytics withholds it when the cohort is thin. The Colorado Springs totals follow the July 2023 delineation, with Colorado Springs loans placed by project county, while Colorado Springs leaves out unplaced counties.

A liquor store study for Colorado Springs: the tests

Colorado Springs, CO liquor store work begins from this record, then narrows to one address. Colorado Springs reviewers will check the mix of spirits, wine and beer. For Colorado Springs, the study should address the license itself, if bought. Colorado Springs borrowers should expect the study to document hours, delivery and tax rules adopted. In Colorado Springs, underwriters will ask the study to address competing package stores and passing traffic. Colorado Springs lenders need the study to show margin by category, not a blend. Colorado Springs work runs demand, cost, coverage, value. A Colorado Springs study guarantees nothing to lenders.

SBA liquor store loans in the Colorado Springs, CO Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202666
Gross dollars approved$42.1 million
Median loan$456,500
Middle half of loans, from$303,000
Middle half of loans, to$695,000
SBA 7(a) loans59
SBA 504 loans7
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among metro and micro areas for liquor store loans17 of 426
Rank of liquor store among the classes in this area2 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)3.12x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.01x

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)9.4%
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 liquor store loans approved in the Colorado Springs, CO Metro Area, by fiscal year

0246810FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 7Loans, FY2018: 7Loans, FY2019: 5Loans, FY2021: 10Loans, FY2022: 9Loans, FY2024: 7
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY20177$2.5 million
FY20187$4.4 million
FY20195$1.9 million
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY202110$7.3 million
FY20229$6.4 million
FY2023withheldwithheld
FY20247$2.9 million
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Hanmi Bank18$14.3 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.

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-17820-C37.

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