SBA 7(a) Grocery Store Feasibility Study in Indiana

What SBA's own loan files show about SBA 7(a) lending to grocery store projects in Indiana, and what a feasibility study for an SBA 7(a) loan there has to test.

What Indiana files for SBA 7(a) grocery store lending

SBA's files show 29 approvals under 7(a) for grocery store projects in Indiana between FY2017 and FY2026, worth $14.2 million. Position: 23 for the Indiana grocery store (SBA 7(a)) approvals, and 20 of 39 among Indiana's own asset classes. The median grocery store loan in Indiana is $250,000; against the national centre for grocery store loans under SBA 7(a), 0.81x is the ratio, so Indiana borrowers take lighter loans than the nation does. The middle half of Indiana approvals fall from $82,500 to $752,200. 3.4% of these Indiana loans went to franchised businesses. No metric here, the $250,000 median included, sets Indiana grocery store lending clearly apart from the wider groupings it sits within, which leaves Indiana's institutions, counties and years to carry the grocery store page.

For Indiana grocery store: lenders and local spread

Leading the lenders table for Indiana: The Huntington National Bank (7 loans, $666,900). Treat The Huntington National Bank's 7 loans and $666,900 cautiously, because SBA lists each Indiana loan's current holder, so an Indiana name in the list could have bought a grocery store note rather than writing it. Within Indiana, the counties in SBA's files are Marion with 10, Daviess with 2, Delaware with 2 and Lake with 2. Timing shows a clear story for grocery store in Indiana: approvals peaked at 8 loans, worth $2.3 million, in FY2021, plus the series closes at 5 loans and $5.1 million in FY2026; this series opened with 2 loans in FY2017.

Indiana: outcomes, read as minimums for grocery store

We hold back the Indiana grocery store cancellation rate, since too few Indiana loans sit in the cohort; treat the Indiana gap as withheld, not as zero grocery store cancellations. On Indiana grocery store loans funded from FY2017 to FY2021, the Indiana grocery store loss rate is withheld; the Indiana cohort holds too few loans to support a figure, so please do not take the missing Indiana figure to mean none occurred for grocery store. Every Indiana grocery store rate above is a minimum, since open grocery store loans can yet change. SBA files Indiana borrowers by industry code, not by grocery store building or concept, so grocery store here follows the code groupings, not grocery store's physical use of an Indiana site.

Testing an Indiana grocery store loan request

Under 7(a), an Indiana grocery store request is judged by the Indiana originating lender, whose guaranteed grocery store loan depends on Indiana cash flow and the real estate the Indiana study has to support. An Indiana grocery store study tests a catchment against existing supermarkets and the grocery demand the area could supply. Refrigeration cost, opening inventory and working capital sit inside the Indiana grocery store budget. Debt service coverage for Indiana grocery store should be tested at the $250,000 median and also near $752,200, the upper end of the Indiana middle half, with a slower grocery store case next to each. Valuation for grocery store real estate across Indiana depends on rent against revenue. The Huntington National Bank's 7 loans describe past funding by one Indiana grocery store lender, and cannot forecast what The Huntington National Bank will ask of an Indiana grocery store borrower, which stays its own to say.

Treat the Indiana grocery store history above, 29 loans, as background: a grocery store study from Loan Analytics for Indiana, signed by Daniel Smith, MAI, for grocery store, handles the site-specific Indiana testing, and nothing here assures Indiana approval of a grocery store loan.

SBA 7(a) grocery store loans in Indiana

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202629
Gross dollars approved$14.2 million
Median loan$250,000
Middle half of loans, from$82,500
Middle half of loans, to$752,200
Franchise share of loans3.4%
Rank among states for SBA 7(a) grocery store loans, by number of loans23
Rank of grocery store among classes in Indiana20 of 39
Median loan against the national SBA 7(a) median for the class0.81x

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) not reported: fewer than 30 loans in the cohort

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 7(a) grocery store loans approved in Indiana, by fiscal year

02468FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 2Loans, FY2018: 2Loans, FY2019: 0Loans, FY2020: 0Loans, FY2021: 8Loans, FY2022: 7Loans, FY2023: 2Loans, FY2024: 2Loans, FY2025: 1Loans, FY2026: 5
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY20172$1.8 million
FY20182$332,500
FY20190$0
FY20200$0
FY20218$2.3 million
FY20227$2.8 million
FY20232$150,000
FY20242$250,000
FY20251$1.5 million
FY20265$5.1 million

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
The Huntington National Bank7$666,900

Where the loans are, by county

CountyLoans
MARION10
DAVIESS2
DELAWARE2
LAKE2
ELKHART1
GREENE1
HAMILTON1
HENDRICKS1
HENRY1
JACKSON1

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 loan-level FOIA files (data.sba.gov), as of 2026-09-30; Loan Analytics loan-outcome cell SAP-IN-C40-7A.

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