Welcome to the Business Finance Center of Tulare, California

SBA 504 Loan Program

The 504 program gives small business owners access to 90 percent financing at a low-cost, fixed-rate. Typically, 504 loans can be used for small business owners who wish:
	To own workplace-retail, a professional building, a manufacturing facility or warehouse OR;
	To build a new building for business, office, restaurant, hotel or franchise operation, OR
	To purchase machinery or equipment.
	As shown in the pie chart, the 504 loan cuts in half the 20 percent downpayment that would ordinarily be required of the business owner. (Based upon good credit history and other considerations.)

TF Tire & Services

Location:	1020 E. Prosperity Ave. Tulare, CA
Loan information:	lisa@cdctulare.com
BFC phone:	559-688-6666

In 1975, the Lionel Pires family became partners in Tulare Firestone, Inc., a tire business that had been operating at 362 South “K” Street in Tulare since 1952. Eight years later, they assumed control of the company and have been running it since.

Expansion outside of Tulare began in 1993 with the opening of a TF Tire facility in Exeter. New locations followed in Wasco, Delano, Corcoran, Arvin, Tipton, Tulare – Prosperity, and Chowchilla. Tulare Firestone, Inc. also opened a separate warehouse operation in Tulare that supplies all TF Tire and Tire World locations, as well as providing tires and related materials to other tire dealers in the San Joaquin and Salinas valleys of Central California. Currently, Tulare Firestone, Inc. operates 10 facilities and is one of the largest distributors of tires for agricultural equipment in the Western United States.