CNNMoney.com > Small Business > Best Places to Launch

Local loans in St. George, UT
These banks have made loans through the SBA's 7(a) small business loan program in the 2009 fiscal year in and around St. George.
Bank Address # of Loans Total $ lent
Zions Bancorporation One S Main, Ste 1134
Salt Lake City, UT
754 $52,433,800
Mountain America Federal Credit Union 7181 S Campus View Dr
West Jordan, UT
419 $20,201,600
America First Federal Credit Union 1344 West 4675 South
Riverdale, UT
90 $2,830,100
Celtic Investment 340 E 400 S
Salt Lake City, UT
44 $18,988,600
Wells Fargo & Company 45 Fremont St, 27th Fl
San Francisco, CA
35 $11,154,200
Jordan Federal Credit Union 9260 South 300 East
Sandy, UT
34 $1,150,800
U.S. Bank 800 Nicollet Mall, 2nd Fl
Minneapolis, MN
33 $6,419,300
Goldenwest Federal Credit Union 5025 Adams Ave
Ogden, UT
30 $1,069,400
Beehive Credit Union 1467 S Main St
Salt Lake City, UT
29 $1,063,000
Southern Utah Bancorporation 377 N Main St
Cedar City, UT
28 $2,051,000
Deseret First Federal Credit Union 2480 S 3850 West, Ste C
Salt Lake City, UT
27 $1,007,700
Heritagewest Federal Credit Union 562 N Main St
Tooele, UT
26 $1,340,300
Key Bank 127 Public Sq
Cleveland, OH
20 $3,227,400
Superior Financial Group 165 Lennon Lane, Suite 101
Walnut Creek, CA
20 $240,000
Utah First Federal Credit Union 208 E 800 South
Salt Lake City, UT
20 $835,000
Americanwest Bancorporation 41 W Riverside Ave, Ste 400
Spokane, WA
19 $4,571,000
Bou Bancorp Inc 2605 Washington Blvd
Ogden, UT
19 $6,467,800
Peoples Utah Bancorp 33 E Main St
American Fork, UT
18 $3,543,800
Cyprus Federal Credit Union 3876 W Center View Way
West Jordan, UT
15 $569,200
Central Bancorporation 75 N University Ave
Provo, UT
14 $979,900
Jpmorgan Chase & Co. 270 Park Ave
New York City, NY
13 $1,618,700
Southwest Community Federal Credit Union 162 N 400 E #A 101
Saint George, UT
13 $423,000
University First Federal Credit Union 3450 S Highland Dr
Salt Lake City, UT
13 $1,240,000
Western Community Bancshares 1245 Dear Valley Dr
Park City, UT
11 $1,405,000
Horizon Utah Federal Credit Union D/B/A Horizon 225 South 200 West
Farmington, UT
10 $300,000
Fnb Bancorp 12 S Main St
Layton, UT
9 $1,596,400
Granite Federal Credit Union 3675 S 900 East
Salt Lake City, UT
9 $305,000
Popular North America 525 Fellowship Rd
Mount Laurel, NJ
8 $2,795,100
First Utah Bancorporation 3826 S 2300 East
Salt Lake City, UT
7 $505,000
Brighton Bancorp 7101 S Highland Dr
Salt Lake City, UT
5 $587,000
Centennial Bankshares 4605 Harrison Blvd, Ste #1
Ogden, UT
5 $2,899,600
Glacier Bancorp 49 Commons Loop
Kalispell, MT
5 $427,300
Ncb Financial 6795 Edmond St, Ste 160
Las Vegas, NV
4 $4,831,300
Cache Valley Banking Company 101 N Main St
Logan, UT
3 $2,437,300
Compass Bancshares 15 S 20th St
Birmingham, AL
3 $1,661,000
Ambancorp 3670 N University Ave
Provo, UT
2 $776,000
Barnes Bancorporation 33 S Main St
Kaysville, UT
2 $535,000
Community West Bancshares 445 Pine Ave
Goleta, CA
2 $1,590,000
Huntington Bancshares Incorpor 41 S High St
Columbus, OH
2 $522,000
Sunfirst Bank 120 E St. George Blvd
Saint George, UT
2 $385,000
Utah Central Credit Union 25 E 1700 South
Salt Lake City, UT
2 $100,000
Bancfirst Corporation 101 N Broadway, Ste 1050
Oklahoma City, OK
1 $175,000
Bancwest Corporation 999 Bishop St
Honolulu, HI
1 $335,000
Beach Business Bank 1230 Rosecrans Ave, Ste 100
Manhattan Beach, CA
1 $975,000
First Citizens Bancshares 4300 Six Forks Rd
Raleigh, NC
1 $610,000
Grand Valley Corporation 570 25 Rd
Grand Junction, CO
1 $115,100
Main Street Lender 2 Wisconsin Circle, 7th Floor
Chevy Chase, MD
1 $1,790,000
Mesaba Bancshares 428 Nw Fourth Ave
Grand Rapids, MN
1 $680,000
Numerica Credit Union 301 N Havana
Spokane, WA
1 $37,500
Pacific City Financial Corpora 3701 Wilshire Blvd, Ste 100
Los Angeles, CA
1 $1,237,500
Pnc Financial Services Group 249 Fifth Ave
Pittsburgh, PA
1 $2,000,000
Stearns Financial Services In 4191 2nd St South
Saint Cloud, MN
1 $120,000
Usu Charter Federal Credit Union 695 E 1000 North
Logan, UT
1 $40,000
Utah Community Federal Credit Union 188 W River Park Dr
Provo, UT
1 $25,000
Village Bancorp 294 E Tabernacle
Saint George, UT
1 $52,500
From the November 2009 issue
Source: Small Business Administration. 7(a) loans in Fiscal Year 2009, through Aug. 31, 2009.
Best Places Winners
MAPS
Find your launch spot
Do you prefer a place that is: Small Medium Large
The factors that matter most to me are:
 Affordable wages  Few foreclosures
 Educated workers  Low housing costs
 Low crime  High local incomes
 A growing economy  Population growth
 Growing small business population

Video
ireportTell us why: Low taxes? Talented workers? An active small business community? Send us your photos and videos, and you could be featured in our upcoming coverage of reader-picked Best Places to Launch. More
This year we partnered with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to find the 50 most business-friendly communities in America.

With help from Robert Fairlie, an economist and leading scholar of entrepreneurship at the University of California, Santa Cruz, we developed a methodology and sifted through such data on factors such as per capita income, hourly wages, workforce quality, crime rates, taxes and foreclosures. More

Comments? E-mail the editors
Data partners

This package was produced in partnership with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Foreclosure data provided by RealtyTrac.

Housing price-to-income data provided by Moody's Economy.com.