Liquor Store Feasibility Study in the Fort Collins-Loveland, CO Metro Area
What SBA's own loan files show about liquor store lending in the Fort Collins-Loveland, CO Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.
Liquor stores with a high quotient
In Fort Collins-Loveland, liquor store loans rank at 4 of 39 within Fort Collins-Loveland's own classes, and the area is 34 of 426 nationally for them. SBA approved 28 loans worth $23.7 million from FY2017 to FY2026, all of them in Larimer County. Set beside the national mix, Fort Collins-Loveland yields 2.52x: liquor store loans take a larger share there. The 2.52x is the largest ratio on this Fort Collins-Loveland page.
At $645,000, the Fort Collins-Loveland median loan is 1.43x the national median across liquor stores, and $288,250 marks the lower quartile and $1.2 million the upper. The franchise share is 0.00%. The page does not print the way the Fort Collins-Loveland loans split throughout the two SBA programs in Fort Collins-Loveland in Fort Collins-Loveland. Everything above describes SBA loans in Fort Collins-Loveland; other money for liquor store projects in Fort Collins-Loveland lies outside these figures.
One dominant holder
$16.6 million of the 7(a) loans, 14 in number, sit with Hanmi Bank. That is a big share of the loans and the dollars in the Fort Collins-Loveland cell, held by one institution. The entry is of ownership today, not of credit policy.
Two years print: FY2018 brings no loans and $0 and FY2021 with 6 loans and $5.2 million. Loan Analytics does not print Fort Collins-Loveland's two outcome rates given that the Fort Collins-Loveland FY2017 to FY2021 cohort counts under 30 loans, so in Fort Collins-Loveland Loan Analytics' own rule bites. A missing rate in Fort Collins-Loveland is unknown, not nil.
A Fort Collins liquor store plan should establish the sales a site can generate, set stock and fit-out against a loan near the elevated $645,000 median, and test rent or ownership against margin. With a quotient this high and one county holding every loan, explain what leaves room for one more store here, and for a purchase tie the price to earnings and address the licence transfer. The federal delineation draws Fort Collins-Loveland; so loans from counties Fort Collins-Loveland fails to match stay absent from its totals.
Reading the Fort Collins-Loveland figures
One institution holds 14 of the 28 loans, and every loan sits in Larimer County, so the precedent set is narrow in both lender and place. A lender will read a high quotient and a median well above the national one and will ask what supports the volume. A sponsor should expect that question and should bring local evidence of demand, since a class this concentrated invites the doubt that the trade area is already served.
SBA liquor store loans in the Fort Collins-Loveland, CO Metro Area
| Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026 | 28 |
|---|---|
| Gross dollars approved | $23.7 million |
| Median loan | $645,000 |
| Middle half of loans, from | $288,250 |
| Middle half of loans, to | $1.2 million |
| SBA 7(a) loans | withheld |
| SBA 504 loans | withheld |
| Franchise share of loans | 0.00% |
| Rank among metro and micro areas for liquor store loans | 34 of 426 |
| Rank of liquor store among the classes in this area | 4 of 39 |
| Location quotient (share of loans against the national share) | 2.52x |
| Median loan against the national median for the class | 1.43x |
Cancellation and charge-off
| Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor) | not reported: fewer than 30 loans in the cohort |
|---|---|
| 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 Fort Collins-Loveland, CO Metro Area, by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Loans | Dollars |
|---|---|---|
| FY2017 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2018 | 0 | $0 |
| FY2019 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2020 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2021 | 6 | $5.2 million |
| FY2022 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2023 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2024 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2025 | withheld | withheld |
| FY2026 | withheld | withheld |
Most active SBA lenders
| Lender | Loans | Dollars |
|---|---|---|
| Hanmi Bank | 14 | $16.6 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
| County | Loans |
|---|---|
| Larimer County, CO | 28 |
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-22660-C37.
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