Meet Our

Clients

Seeing our clients achieve key milestones is what drives our work at BCL of Texas. From startups that have expanded to multi-employee businesses to families buying their first homes, our success all comes down to you.

Guy Lahav & Gary Franco
Bringing the Arts to Small-Town Texas: The Success of Come and Take It Dance Studio
Small Business Lending Gonzalez, Texas

Guy Lahav and Gary Franco left their established lives and careers in Los Angeles to move to Gonzales, Texas with a dream of opening a dance studio to foster the love of arts and dance in small-town Texas.

With the help of BCL of Texas’ small business lending services, Guy and Gary were able to secure a building in downtown Gonzales, and Come and Take It Dance was born.

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Holiday Inn Express & Suites
Ruth Guerra & Family
SBA 504 Loan Gonzales, TX

Some entrepreneurs are born ready to answer when opportunity knocks. When the Eagle Ford Shale opportunity brought an economic boom to the community of Gonzales, Texas, the Guerra family opened their doors—literally—to the scores of new faces that needed accommodations at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites.

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Green Ape Coffee
Regina Bogart
Travis County Thrive Grant Lago Vista, Texas

BCL is known for our small business lending programs, but did you know we also work with partners like city and local governments to help them reach small businesses for grants like covid-19 relief packages? Since the start of the pandemic, we have distributed over $11.5 million in grant relief funding to over 300 businesses.

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Habitat for Humanity Homeowner
Marquita Perkins
Mortgage Servicing Wharton, TX

When Marquita Perkins contacted Habitat for Humanity in 2007, she didn’t expect to become a homeowner. She became involved with the organization when she was helping a member of her church find a home and in the process ended up submitting an application for herself. Marquita became Wharton Habitat for Humanity’s first homeowner, and her neighbor was the second.

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Gold Rush Vinyl
Caren Kelleher
Business Lending and Counseling Austin, TX

The live music capital of the world now has its first record pressing plant, thanks to entrepreneur Caren Kelleher.

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Local Austin Businesses
Austin Legacy Business Relief Grant Program
coaching Austin, TX

BCL is proud to provide business coaching for 100 long-standing local businesses through the Austin Legacy Business Relief Grant program, supporting art and music venues, restaurants, bars, and theatres that have been in Austin for 20 or more years.

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First-Time Homebuyers
Sandra Mayes & Family
NeighborhoodLIFT program, Homebuyer Education & Counseling Dallas, TX

When construction started coming together on Sandra Mayes’ new home, workers began to see what would become a familiar sight– Sandra herself, photographing the process and watching her home being put together piece by piece.

“It was an emotional ride but one I was ready to take,” says Sandra of the home buying process.

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Aesthetic Innovations, LLC
Jazmin Jernigan
Business Coaching Dallas, TX

How far would you go to grow your business? Would you drive nearly 400 miles twice a month for 6 months?

That’s exactly what Jazmin Jernigan of Aesthetic Innovations, LLC is doing. Jazmin’s business is a full service marketing firm that provides branding, web design, graphic design, and photography services all under one roof. She drives from Shreveport to Dallas twice a month to participate in Capital One’s Getting Down to Business education and mentoring program, which provides guidance on a series of business topics taught by industry experts. BCL of Texas is the facilitator for the 2015 course in Dallas.

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Where to Find Us
AUSTIN 1011 San Jacinto Blvd
Suite 500
Austin, TX 78701 P: 512.912.9884 F: 346.301.5752 NMLS #1114924
DALLAS 400 S Zang Blvd
Suite 1220
Dallas, TX 75208 P: 214.688.7456 F: 346.301.5752 NMLS #1114924
SAN MARCOS 302 W Hopkins St
Suite 2
San Marcos, TX 78666 P: 512.383.0027 NMLS #1114924