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 FY202628
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) loanswithheld
SBA 504 loanswithheld
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among metro and micro areas for liquor store loans34 of 426
Rank of liquor store among the classes in this area4 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)2.52x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.43x

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

0246FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2018: 0Loans, FY2021: 6
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY20180$0
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY20216$5.2 million
FY2022withheldwithheld
FY2023withheldwithheld
FY2024withheldwithheld
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 Bank14$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

CountyLoans
Larimer County, CO28

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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