Around 100 Grand Prairie companies pulled in millions in federal Paycheck Protection Program loans since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a limited release of data made public Monday.
In North Texas, the total payout was more than $6.2 billion. The data shows the loans may have helped save 800,000 jobs at 15,566 companies, but they also gave massive payouts to some of the region’s biggest employers under a plan designed to help small businesses.
The businesses in these five cities in North Texas received the most money from the program.
- Dallas: $1.9 billion
- Fort Worth: $723.5 million in loans
- Plano: $455.5 million
- Irving: $398.1 million
- Arlington: $193.9 million
Each payout ranged from $150,000 to $10 million, but no exact amounts were given for any of the loans. The following Grand Prairie-based companies received the largest loans, which were between $5 million and $10 million.
- Professional Packing Systems, which makes packaging for Frito Lay, Hobby Lobby and others
- Polk Mechanical Company
- Arnold Transportation Services
The program defined a small business as having no more than 500 employees. Of the Grand Prairie-based businesses named in the database, two had around 500 — Darby Day and Professional Packing Systems.
The administration also released data on loans for less than $150,000 but did not share the names of the businesses that received them. That list includes another 337,000 loans to Texas businesses that total nearly $11.4 billion.
This data was made public after a lawsuit from 10 media organizations, including The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The New York Times and Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal.
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