Borrowing from a bank should always begin with the bank where your business accounts are located. If you don’t feel comfortable with visiting your own bank first, then maybe it is time to switch banks anyway. Here are a few other contacts for your small business needs that want to talk to you. Always check to see if the final decision to lend to you is done locally or elsewhere; local is better.

Small Business Lenders

Wells Fargo Bank Business Direct
Application for business loan up to $100,000.00 link
Business Real Estate Loan application link
Wells Fargo Customer Representative Kristine.A.Durward@wellsfargo.com

Borrego Springs Bank

SBA loans
5055 E Broadway Blvd
Tucson, Arizona

Small Business Association loans were created to fill a gap left when conventional lending sources where skeptical toward start-up businesses or risky businesses. There isn’t a business that is not without risk however, so SBA loans are still with us. SBA loan packages can be structured like any other loan however, a “preferred” SBA lender such as Borrego Springs Bank has the authority to approve your government guaranteed loan.

The way this program works is your SBA lender will use your business banking partner, or another bank, in conjunction with federal matching funds and a guarantee to your private lender that SBA will stand behind your business. As with other lending sources SBA funding is available for inventory/working capital financing, equipment purchases, debt refinancing, business acquisition or expansion, construction financing and commercial real estate purchases.

James Even, assistant vice president is the person to talk to at 520-745-5229 or jeven@b-s-b-net . Mr. Even is not your typical banker; he will come to your place of business to talk to you about a loan.

National Bank of Arizona
335 N Wilmot Road
Tucson, Arizona
Small Business loans
Business Real Estate loans
Commercial Loan Officer Mathew Liddicoat
520-519-2920 mliddicoat@NBArizona.com

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Community Links

Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
Greater Tucson Economic Council
Pima Association of Governments
Rio Nuevo Project
Pima County Homeland Security
City of Tucson
Pima County
Pima County Sheriffs Office
University of Arizona

Real Estate Resources

Arizona Corporation Commission
Pima County Assessor’s Office
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Americans with Disabilities
Back to Basics (Downtown)
Port of Tucson Intermodal Facility 520-574-1320 Jason Fata
Tucson Empowerment Zone 520-791-5093
Tucson/Pima Co. Enterprise Zones lcummin1@ci.tucson.az.us or
U of A Science & Tech Park
1031 Tax Deferred Exchange Info
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Trident Commercial Real Estate mike@tridentcommercial.net

Business Owner Assistance

Southern Arizona Small Business Association
Microbusiness Advancement Center
The Business Formula
Tools For Achievers
Better Business Bureau
Dorgan & Associates 791-3000 Bill Dorgan
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You are welcome to call Michael Ebert, Broker, Trident Commercial Real Estate Company, LLC, if you have questions about any of these contacts at 520-320-9311