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He applied for a PPP loan through Chase Bank three different times, and was declined each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve gone through all this struggle and hardship,” Bakhtary said. “Hopefully, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He eventually applied through \u003ca href=\"https://www.lendio.com/\">Lendio\u003c/a>, a Utah-based small-business specialist, to get his loan approved. “Some of these big banks, I think it’s not helping the small businesses,” Bakhtary said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iba Reller, a spokeswoman for Chase Bank, wouldn’t speak specifically about East Oakland or Yummy Grill, but said that nationally more than 32% of her bank’s PPP loans in 2020 were to small businesses in communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11872235 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Similar to other once busy thoroughfares around the Bay, International Boulevard has suffered during the pandemic. After receiving little to no support from the federal government or banks, some businesses have been forced to close. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Similar to other once-busy thoroughfares in cities around the Bay Area, International Boulevard in East Oakland has suffered during the pandemic. After receiving little to no support from the federal government or banks, some businesses have been forced to close. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our goal has always been to help as many customers — and their employees — as possible,” Reller said in an email. “We proactively marketed the program specifically to minority-owned businesses, in English and in Spanish, to ensure awareness and how to apply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Reveal’s analysis found that Chase Bank, one of the biggest PPP lenders, approved about 6,600 PPP loans during the first two rounds of the program in the \u003ca href=\"https://censusreporter.org/profiles/31000US41860-san-francisco-oakland-berkeley-ca-metro-area/\">San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metropolitan region\u003c/a> (which includes San Francisco, much of the East Bay and some cities in the South Bay and North Bay). But just over 250 of those went to businesses in predominantly Latinx commercial neighborhoods and a meager 14 to those in predominantly Black neighborhoods, while almost 3,000 went to businesses in white neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We Knew There Was Going to Be a Problem’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Paulina Gonzalez-Brito, executive director of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://calreinvest.org/\">California Reinvestment Coalition\u003c/a>, says she was not surprised to find communities of color struggling to land support from the federal government’s PPP loan program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as we saw the government was going to run the PPP program through the banks, we knew that there was going to be a problem for these small-business owners,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873194\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11873194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-1020x605.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-1020x605.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-800x474.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-160x95.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1.png 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mixed neighborhoods refer to U.S. Census tracts with no racial majority. \u003cbr>Data provided by \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/which-neighborhoods-were-neglected-by-the-paycheck-protection-program/\">Reveal\u003c/a> based on figures from the U.S. Small Business Administration, and the U.S. Census, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Postal Service. \u003ccite>(Chart by Adhiti Bandlamudi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chase Bank isn’t the only bank that made a disproportionate share of its PPP loan to businesses in predominantly white neighborhoods. On the whole, Latinx and Black neighborhoods in the Bay Area received the lowest percentage of PPP loans from all major banks and credit unions, further increasing the wealth gap already widened during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales-Brito is also concerned with how much big banks profited during the pandemic from individual retail customers. In the last three months of 2020, 12 of America’s 15 largest banks, including Chase Bank, Wells Fargo and Bank of America, each \u003ca href=\"https://prospect.org/economy/big-banks-charged-billions-in-overdraft-fees-during-pandemic/\">made more than $1 billion\u003c/a> in overdraft fees. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Yet, \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/which-neighborhoods-were-neglected-by-the-paycheck-protection-program/\">a Reveal analysis\u003c/a> of more than 5 million PPP loans issued during the first two rounds of funding from April through August found sweeping racial disparities in how that money was distributed, with businesses in largely white neighborhoods receiving loans at a far greater rate than those in neighborhoods with significant minority populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such was the case in this stretch of East Oakland along International Boulevard, where just about 5% of businesses received PPP loans during that period, the analysis found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare that to the 49% of businesses who received PPP loans in Montclair, a predominantly white neighborhood in the nearby Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loan data, which Reveal obtained after successfully suing the U.S. Small Business Administration, provides the number of loans issued per location, but does not include the number of applicants, which means the approval/denial rate in each area is unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Read more about the methodology of Reveal’s analysis \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/which-neighborhoods-were-neglected-by-the-paycheck-protection-program/\">here\u003c/a>.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Therefore, the low loan rates in many communities of color may have resulted from a large percentage of businesses not applying — as opposed to having had their applications rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the results are nonetheless disturbing to equitable lending advocates, who note that under federal law, banks must meet the credit needs of the communities they operate in, income notwithstanding. And regardless of whether businesses in many Black and brown communities simply didn’t apply for PPP loans or were rejected, the gaping disparities in reception rates suggest the program failed to effectively serve all communities equally, those advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many small-business owners, particularly non-English speakers, say they\u003ca href=\"https://smallbusinessmajority.org/press-release/ppp-application-deadline-expires-small-business-majority-releases-stories-struggling-small-business-owners\"> struggled to navigate the complicated PPP application process\u003c/a> or find the resources needed to help them apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%\" align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://mgreen.carto.com/builder/c0d6b729-9e21-460a-a814-fce1a83e060e/embed\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch2>\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch2>Questionable Distribution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Farid Ahmed Bakhtary owns Yummy Grill, an Afghan kebab shop nestled between a strip mall and King Street on International Boulevard. He applied for a PPP loan through Chase Bank three different times, and was declined each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve gone through all this struggle and hardship,” Bakhtary said. “Hopefully, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He eventually applied through \u003ca href=\"https://www.lendio.com/\">Lendio\u003c/a>, a Utah-based small-business specialist, to get his loan approved. “Some of these big banks, I think it’s not helping the small businesses,” Bakhtary said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iba Reller, a spokeswoman for Chase Bank, wouldn’t speak specifically about East Oakland or Yummy Grill, but said that nationally more than 32% of her bank’s PPP loans in 2020 were to small businesses in communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11872235 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Similar to other once busy thoroughfares around the Bay, International Boulevard has suffered during the pandemic. After receiving little to no support from the federal government or banks, some businesses have been forced to close. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Similar to other once-busy thoroughfares in cities around the Bay Area, International Boulevard in East Oakland has suffered during the pandemic. After receiving little to no support from the federal government or banks, some businesses have been forced to close. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our goal has always been to help as many customers — and their employees — as possible,” Reller said in an email. “We proactively marketed the program specifically to minority-owned businesses, in English and in Spanish, to ensure awareness and how to apply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Reveal’s analysis found that Chase Bank, one of the biggest PPP lenders, approved about 6,600 PPP loans during the first two rounds of the program in the \u003ca href=\"https://censusreporter.org/profiles/31000US41860-san-francisco-oakland-berkeley-ca-metro-area/\">San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metropolitan region\u003c/a> (which includes San Francisco, much of the East Bay and some cities in the South Bay and North Bay). But just over 250 of those went to businesses in predominantly Latinx commercial neighborhoods and a meager 14 to those in predominantly Black neighborhoods, while almost 3,000 went to businesses in white neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We Knew There Was Going to Be a Problem’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Paulina Gonzalez-Brito, executive director of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://calreinvest.org/\">California Reinvestment Coalition\u003c/a>, says she was not surprised to find communities of color struggling to land support from the federal government’s PPP loan program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as we saw the government was going to run the PPP program through the banks, we knew that there was going to be a problem for these small-business owners,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873194\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11873194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-1020x605.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-1020x605.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-800x474.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-160x95.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1.png 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mixed neighborhoods refer to U.S. Census tracts with no racial majority. \u003cbr>Data provided by \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/which-neighborhoods-were-neglected-by-the-paycheck-protection-program/\">Reveal\u003c/a> based on figures from the U.S. Small Business Administration, and the U.S. Census, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Postal Service. \u003ccite>(Chart by Adhiti Bandlamudi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chase Bank isn’t the only bank that made a disproportionate share of its PPP loan to businesses in predominantly white neighborhoods. On the whole, Latinx and Black neighborhoods in the Bay Area received the lowest percentage of PPP loans from all major banks and credit unions, further increasing the wealth gap already widened during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales-Brito is also concerned with how much big banks profited during the pandemic from individual retail customers. In the last three months of 2020, 12 of America’s 15 largest banks, including Chase Bank, Wells Fargo and Bank of America, each \u003ca href=\"https://prospect.org/economy/big-banks-charged-billions-in-overdraft-fees-during-pandemic/\">made more than $1 billion\u003c/a> in overdraft fees. 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"content": "\u003cp>Like many small business owners, Yuri Kim has seen a lot of highs and lows during the pandemic. She received a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan for her San Jose plant shop, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fractalflora.com/\">Fractal Flora\u003c/a>, in May, which helped pay the rent for a few months, but she had to lay off her six part-time employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Should I even continue this business, or does it make more sense to just close it down?” Kim said she asked herself, repeatedly. “I’m so happy that I have an opportunity to still be here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fractal Flora was part of San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.moment-sj.com/\">Moment\u003c/a> program, a small-business incubator in the city’s downtown that provides subsidized rent in converted garage spaces in San Pedro Square. After two years, the shops have to move out and find their own spaces. As her involvement with Moment rolled to a close, Kim was able to open a new store just a few miles away in the Rose Garden neighborhood of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11853186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11853186\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Kim's store is one of the few small businesses surviving during the pandemic. During the holidays, Kim noticed more people buying plants as gifts.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1832x1374.jpeg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1376x1032.jpeg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-1044x783.jpeg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-632x474.jpeg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9181-536x402.jpeg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yuri Kim’s store is one of the few small businesses surviving during the pandemic. During the holidays, Kim noticed more people buying plants as gifts. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the first few months of the pandemic, Kim was selling less than what she was last year. But as the year wore on, sales slowly started to pick up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you spend more time home and you’re less able to go outside, you want to make your space comfortable and beautiful,” Kim said. “Even the suppliers we purchase our plants from say their business has been better now than pre-pandemic because the interest in plants has grown so much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sudden demand for succulents and pothos plants is no surprise to Rob Shibata, the owner of\u003ca href=\"http://www.mteden.com/\"> Mt. Eden Floral Company\u003c/a>, one of the largest floral wholesalers in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The millennials have shown a lot of interest in green plants,” Shibata said. “They’re apartment dwellers. They don’t have a lot of space, but they want to have something alive and meaningful to keep them company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11853187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11853187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Fractal Flora sells a collection of house plants and fresh flowers. While the plant industry has seen an uptick in sales, the flower industry is slowly struggling by as it's reliant on large events that are restricted during the pandemic.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fractal Flora sells a collection of house plants and fresh flowers. While the plant industry has seen an uptick in sales, the flower industry is slowly struggling by since it’s reliant on large events that are restricted during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That said, even though Mt. Eden Floral Company has benefited some from the boom in plant sales, the 114-year-old company specializes in flowers. Shibata makes most of his money on orders for weddings, banquets and other large events that won’t be permitted for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have enough business to subsist,” Shibata said. “But we’re missing that event part to make us whole.”[aside postID=\"news_11852317,arts_13885663,science_1967293\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shibata is waiting on Valentine’s Day and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816925/bay-area-florists-wilting-under-shelter-in-place-restrictions\">Mother’s Day\u003c/a>, two of the biggest days of the year for the flower industry, to bring a bump to sales. In the meantime, he’s hoping people continue to buy flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of had this imaginary conversation with my dad,” Shibata said. His late father ran the company before he died in 2015. “And I heard him say, ‘Well, [the pandemic] is not like the problem we had.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shibata’s father ran the company during the 1940s and World War II. In 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, including Shibata’s father, were sent to concentration camps in California and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He [would say], ‘When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the government came and we were forced to leave our business behind with one week’s notice and leave our homes behind with one week’s notice … that was a problem,’ ” Shibata said. “As terrible as it is for us, it wasn’t like … what they went through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that, Shibata says he’s determined to get Mt. Eden Floral Company to its 115th year of service.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sudden demand for succulents and pothos plants is no surprise to Rob Shibata, the owner of\u003ca href=\"http://www.mteden.com/\"> Mt. Eden Floral Company\u003c/a>, one of the largest floral wholesalers in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The millennials have shown a lot of interest in green plants,” Shibata said. “They’re apartment dwellers. They don’t have a lot of space, but they want to have something alive and meaningful to keep them company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11853187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11853187\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Fractal Flora sells a collection of house plants and fresh flowers. While the plant industry has seen an uptick in sales, the flower industry is slowly struggling by as it's reliant on large events that are restricted during the pandemic.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/IMG_9186-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fractal Flora sells a collection of house plants and fresh flowers. While the plant industry has seen an uptick in sales, the flower industry is slowly struggling by since it’s reliant on large events that are restricted during the pandemic. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That said, even though Mt. Eden Floral Company has benefited some from the boom in plant sales, the 114-year-old company specializes in flowers. Shibata makes most of his money on orders for weddings, banquets and other large events that won’t be permitted for the foreseeable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have enough business to subsist,” Shibata said. “But we’re missing that event part to make us whole.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Konan Pi runs \u003ca href=\"https://homkoreankitchen.com/\">Hom Korean Kitchen\u003c/a>, a casual Korean restaurant with three locations in Santa Cruz, San Jose and San Francisco. He received a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan in late April, but he is burning through that money to keep his restaurants afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“$10,000 really doesn’t go far,” Pi said. “I think we’ll probably use the rest here in [June]. I don’t see it lasting much longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant industry has suffered heavily under the pandemic’s shelter-in-place restrictions, and even as the state slowly reopens, restaurants like Hom Korean Kitchen may not be able to survive long enough to bounce back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, Pi is preparing to permanently close his weakest location in Santa Cruz by the end of June because the restaurant can’t make enough money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to go into debt to get through the winter,” Pi said. “We were really hoping for a summer that would help us push forward.” The summer season is typically a strong one for the chain, but it’s not clear how many people will return to eating at restaurants even after local guidelines allow them to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Konan Pi, owner of Hom Korean Kitchen\"]‘It’s all kind of at risk of just being washed down. And the thing is, I feel like I didn’t do anything wrong.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 5, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11822226/santa-clara-county-allowing-outdoor-dining-and-in-store-shopping\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a> started allowing restaurants to offer outdoor dining so customers can socially distance while sitting down for a meal, and San Francisco will begin allowing outdoor dining \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirusliveupdates/news/11823655/san-francisco-allows-outdoor-restaurant-dining-starting-friday\">this weekend\u003c/a>. Pi opened the patio of his San Jose location, but only a few customers are coming by each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes Hom Korean Kitchen also wouldn’t last if there were a second shutdown. He’s put everything he has into his restaurant over the last five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all kind of at risk of just being washed down,” Pi said. “And the thing is, I feel like I didn’t do anything wrong!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pi doesn’t see how foot traffic will ever be the same again in downtown San Jose or mid-market San Francisco. And even if people eventually return, it won’t be soon enough for him and his restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he struggles to keep his other restaurants afloat, Pi watches in exasperation as some national chains thrive, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/chipotle-grows-app-digital-business-amid-coronavirus-2020-4\">Chipotle\u003c/a>, which reported an increase in March sales of about 100% compared to the same time last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can we lose 70% of our business but they actually not only retain it but they grow during this time?” Pi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"line-height: 1.09091\">Delivery Apps Not Much Help\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pi also feels he is competing for customers’ attention on online food delivery services like Grubhub and DoorDash. So, he looked into working with companies like Olo or Chowhound that could create a standalone mobile ordering app for his restaurant chain. But that would cost Pi $2,000 per month, which is unfeasible right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a bit paralyzed by the fear if I don’t move and adapt and change, then we’re going to slowly waste away.” Pi said. “If we take a risk and put money into developing an app, that could either hasten our demise or save us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pi is also contemplating turning his restaurant into a ghost kitchen, where he would loan his space to other restaurants to prepare meals for delivery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Freeman, a publicist for the \u003ca href=\"http://ggra.org/\">Golden Gate Restaurant Association\u003c/a>, said that concept is just two years old, but it has been attracting new converts during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can have multiple brands going at the same time and it’s all delivery. The end user doesn’t know where it’s coming from,” Freeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Freeman cautions restaurateurs like Pi from making rash decisions they could wind up regretting two months from now. “You have to really be careful because everything is changing so fast,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pi is hardly alone in his struggle to keep his restaurant alive during the pandemic. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Updated May 12, 4:20 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five weeks since the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) launched in early April, ice cream parlor owner Kenny Blum was still waiting for his loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, created by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), was designed to help businesses weather the coronavirus pandemic, which has dragged the economy into a recession and caused massive job losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blum opened the Little Truckee Ice Creamery in the summer of 2017 after running a sea kayaking company out of Alaska for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They say ice cream is recession proof,\" he said. \"I don't know if that's totally true, because I haven’t been through one yet with ice cream.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of other business owners in Truckee, he relies on tourism. In the high season last year, he said he had 20 employees. They help him with shop operations and staff the Creamery’s mobile trailer, which people can book for events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816797\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11816797\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43102_Ice-Cream-Shop-pre-COVD-qut-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"The Little Truckee Ice Creamery's patio on a typical day last summer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43102_Ice-Cream-Shop-pre-COVD-qut-800x555.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43102_Ice-Cream-Shop-pre-COVD-qut-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43102_Ice-Cream-Shop-pre-COVD-qut-1020x708.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43102_Ice-Cream-Shop-pre-COVD-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Little Truckee Ice Creamery's patio on a typical day last summer. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kenny Blum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blum said this year, all his summer events, which kick off in May, have been canceled because of shelter-in-place orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walk-up window at Blum's shop is still open, but since shelter-in-place began, most of the shop’s earnings have come from local ice cream deliveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816798\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11816798\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43101_Ice-Cream-Shop-now-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Little Truckee Ice Creamery's patio last week. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43101_Ice-Cream-Shop-now-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43101_Ice-Cream-Shop-now-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43101_Ice-Cream-Shop-now-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43101_Ice-Cream-Shop-now-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43101_Ice-Cream-Shop-now-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43101_Ice-Cream-Shop-now-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43101_Ice-Cream-Shop-now-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43101_Ice-Cream-Shop-now-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43101_Ice-Cream-Shop-now-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Little Truckee Ice Creamery's patio this April. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Kenny Blum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Round One: Funding Runs Out\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the driving factors behind the PPP’s popularity with small business owners is that if they meet \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/PPP--Fact-Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">certain qualifications\u003c/a>, they are eligible for forgiveness of their loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he heard about the program, Blum said he reached out to his bank, Wells Fargo, within a day of its launch. Wells Fargo is one of more than 5,000 lenders approved by the SBA, which is helping to oversee the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blum said the bank’s website told him that he had to submit a request for his application before he could officially apply — Wells Fargo and other banks called these “expression of interest” forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kenny Blum, Little Truckee Ice Creamery owner\"]\"The next morning, I woke up to the headline saying that the PPP funding had run out.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the first of April, Blum submitted that request. Two weeks later, he got an email saying that his application was ready to be completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blum said he stayed up late to fill out the application and upload necessary materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The next morning, I woke up to the headline saying that the PPP funding had run out,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s even more frustrating, Blum said, was that other small business owners he knows, who went to community banks, fared much better than he did. One of them got his loan the same day that Blum received the go-ahead from Wells Fargo to simply submit his application, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blum is not alone in his experience, and a coalition of small businesses in California has \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbfreeman/2020/04/23/ppp-lawsuits-allege-banks-favored-larger-customers-a-second-round-of-funding-likely/#5f779c211bf1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> against Wells Fargo and three other major banks for prioritizing applications that they allege were more profitable to the banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo would not offer comment on the legal action. In addition to the suit, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wells-fargo-paycheck-protection-program-loans-faces-government-investigation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent reports\u003c/a> indicate authorities are now investigating Wells Fargo's PPP lending practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the SBA, the paycheck program is first come, first served. The administration said it relies on a set formula to calculate loan amounts, so that once all paperwork is submitted, it should just be a matter of the banks processing submissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it appears that loan processing, especially at some big banks, was slowed for other reasons. Because the government rolled out the program so quickly, they were still firming up certain guidelines when it launched. Some larger banks took longer to process applications, according to a report by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-04-18/small-business-loans-coronavirus-unemployment\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>, because they wanted more clarification on certain guidelines and feared they'd be sanctioned if their paperwork didn't meet standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a smaller bank spent less time on details and prioritized processing, they weren't penalized, at least during PPP's first round. 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He decided to submit another one, because his branch's staff said that was the safer way to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Wells Fargo spokesman Ruben Pulido confirmed that customers like Blum do not need to fill out a new application, and that the bank would continue processing loan requests in the order it had received them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s a good thing for Blum, because \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/27/846197794/small-business-loans-site-crashes-on-1st-day-of-reopening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not only did the SBA’s portal crash on April 27,\u003c/a> the first day of the relaunch, but Wells Fargo stopped accepting new PPP applications on April 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many small business owners may feel stuck and frustrated because their applications seemingly aren't moving forward, the SBA said there's an alternative. SBA regional communications director Miryam Barajas confirmed that businesses can have applications open with multiple lenders, and that the system would ensure they are only funded once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Blum and another small business owner who reached out to KQED found out there's a catch there, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Blum tried to apply with other banks, including Plumas Bank, Bank of the West, Bank of America, Citibank and US Bank, among several others, he was told he had to have an established banking relationship prior to Feb. 15. That message is also posted on the above banks' websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means Blum and those like him are confined only to lenders with whom they had pre-existing relationships. It’s difficult to confirm how many banks have a similar \"established banking relationship\" policy because there are so many — California lending institutions take up almost 26 pages of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/PPP_Lender_List_200505.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">list of approved PPP lenders\u003c/a> updated by the SBA last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about this hurdle, Barajas said in an email that she was not sure how often lenders were turning away PPP applicants. She also reiterated that the SBA has approved thousands of potential lenders for the program\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/PPP_Report_200508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most recent SBA report\u003c/a> on the second round of PPP funding, more than $35 billion in loans were approved by California banks just last week — the most of any state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/B-yPkPThvPg/\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Loan Approved\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nearly two months after COVID-19 forced Blum to drastically scale back his business, he got good news: his PPP loan came through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now I have to figure out how to navigate the rules,\" said Blum in a text message. \"I've already hired 2 people this week and plan to hire more as local restaurants are opening up for seating.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the course of reporting this story, Wells Fargo representatives asked the reporter for Blum's information in order to reach out to him directly about his loan's progress. 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In early March, Fractal Flora closed off its retail area but allowed people to walk up to the storefront and point out what they wanted from inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then when shelter in place came into effect [in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/public-health-orders.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>], we decided to close down the retail side completely,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As weddings across the region were canceled or postponed, their flower orders dried up as well. Kim and co-founder Sarah Lim had to lay off Fractal Flora’s six part-time employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11816955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11816955\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/IMG_7883-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"When social distancing started, San Jose flower shop Fractal Flora sectioned off their shop so customers couldn't enter the space, but could still window shop.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/IMG_7883-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/IMG_7883-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/IMG_7883-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/IMG_7883-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/IMG_7883-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/IMG_7883-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/IMG_7883-687x916.jpg 687w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/IMG_7883-414x552.jpg 414w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/IMG_7883-354x472.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When social distancing started, San Jose flower shop Fractal Flora sectioned off their shop so customers couldn’t enter the space, but could still window shop. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Delivery Only, No Pickups\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To move some inventory, Kim partnered with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/voyagercraftcoffee/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Voyager Coffee\u003c/a>, a local cafe in San Jose, where she sold bouquets of lilies, roses and small succulent kits for customers to pick up with their coffee. But a few weeks in, she got a call from the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had been reported for doing these pickups, and it was unauthorized,” Kim said. “We had to stop immediately or we would be fined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 4, Santa Clara County announced that it would start easing restrictions, but not for flower shops. Kim can only deliver. She’s not allowed to offer curbside pickup. Because she’s the only employee left at Fractal Flora, she’s left to do all the deliveries herself, even as she receives an influx of orders for Mother’s Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can only do so much, so we’re putting a limit on how many orders we can accept,” Kim said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Wholesale Flower Market\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The story is similar for flower shops throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including wholesalers. Rob Shibata runs \u003ca href=\"http://www.mteden.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mount Eden Floral Wholesale\u003c/a>, one of the largest wholesalers in the region. When shelter-in-place orders were announced, Shibata had to shut down his warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to dump or give away our entire inventory of fresh flowers,” Shibata said. “That was well into six figures of what we had to discard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 4, Shibata was able to finally reopen, but only for delivery. He understands his warehouse is considered non-essential, and he doesn’t want the virus to spread further, but he’s confident he could maintain social distancing. What’s the difference, he wonders, between ordering a pizza versus ordering a bouquet of flowers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the difference to the government is that it’s simpler to make a one-size-all-fits rule, regardless of whether there’s a difference in the public health risk,” Shibata said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Select wholesalers in California have been able to reopen for distribution, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscoflowermart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Flower Mart\u003c/a>, which reopened on April 22, and the \u003ca href=\"http://originallaflowermarket.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles Flower Market\u003c/a>, which reopened on May 8. Shibata is a vendor at both markets and is happy he can move inventory somewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11817166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11817166\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43064_021_KQED_SanFrancisco_FlowerMart_05062020-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Roses at Chak Nursery in the San Francisco Flower Mart on May 5, 2020. The market is currently only open to those who are registered badgeholders making purchases for their business.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43064_021_KQED_SanFrancisco_FlowerMart_05062020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43064_021_KQED_SanFrancisco_FlowerMart_05062020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43064_021_KQED_SanFrancisco_FlowerMart_05062020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/RS43064_021_KQED_SanFrancisco_FlowerMart_05062020-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roses at Chak Nursery in the San Francisco Flower Mart on May 5, 2020. The market is currently only open to those who are registered badge holders making purchases for their business. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials in San Francisco, along with others across the Bay Area, say restaurants are allowed to offer pickup services because people “need calories to survive,” according to Gov. Gavin Newsom. But the rules are also about to loosen for retailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will have the capacity as a retailer to begin to reopen for pickup: clothing, bookstores, florists — with Mother’s Day coming up,” Newsom said in a press conference on May 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those loosening restrictions don’t apply to Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, and the city of Berkeley — non-essential and non-outdoor businesses still can’t provide curbside pickup services.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Good News, a Little Too Late\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fractal Flora recently received good news — the shop will receive a $32,000 Paycheck Protection Program loan from Chase Bank. But the store owners must spend 75% of that loan on payroll within eight weeks. Otherwise, the loan won’t be forgiven, and she’ll be on the hook to pay the interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely a mixed bag, because, ‘Yay, we got the loan!’ ” Kim said. “But now I’m apprehensive about spending it because I don’t know if that loan will be forgiven.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, Kim had to lay off her six part-time employees months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I can’t spend 75% of that loan in two months,” Kim said. “I feel like I have no choice but to give it back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Companies with thousands of employees, past penalties from government investigations and risks of financial failure even before \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak\">the coronavirus\u003c/a> walloped the economy were among those receiving millions of dollars from a relief fund that Congress created to help small businesses through the crisis, an Associated Press investigation found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Paycheck Protection Program was supposed to infuse small businesses, which typically have less access to quick cash and credit, with $349 billion in emergency loans that could help keep workers on the job and bills paid on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least 75 companies that received the aid were publicly traded, the AP found, and some had market values well over $100 million. And 25% of the companies had warned investors months ago — while the economy was humming along — that their ability to remain viable was in question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]\u003cstrong>Bay Area Public Companies Get Big Loans\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Quantum Corp.: $10 million loan\u003cbr>\nThe San Jose-based company with 800 employees stores and manages video data.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Identiv, Inc.: $2.9 million loan\u003cbr>\nThe Fremont-based company specializes in electronic security for devices.[/pullquote]\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>By combing through thousands of regulatory filings, the AP identified the 75 companies as recipients of a combined $300 million in low-interest, taxpayer-backed loans. This includes Quantum Corp., a San Jose-based software company, and Identiv, Inc., a Fremont-based company specializing in electronic security for devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight companies, or their subsidiaries, received the maximum $10 million possible, including Quantum Corp. — which also settled a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation late last year into accounting errors that overstated its revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight firms getting maximum loans are likely just a tip of the iceberg: Statistics released last week by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/53954f808f0652463d58728ad64cd5b3\">the U.S. Small Business Administration\u003c/a> showed that 4,400 of the approved loans exceeded $5 million. Overall, the size of the typical loan nationally was $206,000, according to the statistics. The SBA will forgive the loans if companies meet certain benchmarks, such as keeping employees on payroll for eight weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of recipients identified by the AP is a fraction of the 1.6 million loans that lenders approved before the program was depleted last week, but it is the most complete public accounting to date. Neither the Trump administration nor the lending industry has disclosed a list of Paycheck Protection Program beneficiaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives of the SBA, which is overseeing the program, did not respond to a request for comment late Monday. But last Friday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a written statement that most of the loans, 74%, were for less than $150,000 and that demonstrated “the accessibility of this program to even the smallest of small businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Trump, asked Monday whether the criteria for who can receive loans should change, said that “we’ll look at individual things and some people will have to return it if we think it’s inappropriate.” He added that the loans are supposed to be awarded, in part, by \"what we think is right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the White House referred questions to the SBA and Treasury Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP analysis comes as lawmakers from both political parties negotiate \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/347c3791a921a62cd5c0782ebd6cf2af\">an additional relief package\u003c/a> that in large part would replenish the Paycheck Protection Program with more than $300 billion. Agreement was reached on major elements of the nearly $500 billion aid package for small businesses, including more help for hospitals and virus testing, said Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer. He said he thought it would pass Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AP’s review also found examples of companies that had foreign owners and that were delisted from U.S. stock exchanges, or threatened with removal, because of their poor stock performance before the coronavirus caused a downturn. Other companies have had annual losses for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael Minnis, who has studied the SBA program as an accounting professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business\"]'There’s a fundamental trade-off here between speed and targeting this in the absolute best way.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wave Life Sciences USA Inc., a Boston-area biotechnology company that develops new pharmaceuticals, received a $7.2 million loan. Weeks earlier, Wave Life Sciences, whose parent company is based in Singapore, disclosed in its annual report net losses of $102 million, $147 million and $194 million during the last three fiscal years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We currently have no products on the market and expect that it may be many years, if ever, before we have a product candidate ready for commercialization,” it wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement Monday, the company said: “The livelihood of our U.S. employees and their families would be severely disrupted if they were to lose their jobs or be furloughed. We are doing everything we can to support them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Minnis, who has studied the SBA program as an accounting professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, said he understood the frustrations of smaller businesses that have not received funding when publicly listed companies have. But he said it would be hard to go into the program and change the parameters now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a fundamental trade-off here between speed and targeting this in the absolute best way,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minnis estimates the program might need to dispense $720 billion to meet demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since launching April 3, the relief package has faced criticism about \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/86bd1e6aa3e832452fc4217e3a3b01c3\">slow loan processing\u003c/a>, unclear rules and limited funding that left many mom-and-pop businesses without help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News that the $1.6 billion Shake Shack burger empire had received a maximum $10 million loan, disclosed in a filing Friday, ignited public anger. Company executives said late Sunday they would return the money after finding other sources of capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By design, the Paycheck Protection Program was meant to get money out quickly to as many small businesses as possible, using a formula based in part on workforce and payroll size. Some of the eligibility criteria was expanded making it possible for some businesses with more than 500 employees to qualify if, for example, they met certain size standards for their industries or other conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owners behind large restaurant chains like Potbelly, Ruth’s Chris Steak House and Taco Cabana were able to qualify and get the maximum $10 million in loans despite employing thousands of workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Quantum Corp. spokesman Bob Wientzen\"]'[Without the loan] we would most certainly be forced to reduce headcount. We owe it to our employees — who’ve stuck with us through a long and difficult turnaround — to do everything we can to save their jobs during this crisis.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some other big companies that received loans appeared to have enough cash on hand to survive the economic downturn. New York City-based Lindblad Expeditions Holdings, for example, a cruise ship and travel company with 650 workers and a branding deal with National Geographic, got a $6.6 million loan. At the end of March, the business reported having about $137 million in cash on its balance sheet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When this crisis hit, we had two business planning cases: 1) substantial layoffs and furloughs or 2) receiving these funds and not impacting our employees,” spokeswoman Audrey Chang wrote in an email. “Lindblad is the very rare travel company that has not imposed any layoffs, furloughs or salary reductions to date.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five of the companies that the AP identified were previously under investigation by financial and other regulators, including firms that paid penalties to resolve allegations, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quantum Corp., the video data storage company based in San Jose with a workforce of 800, paid a $1 million penalty last December over allegations that accounting errors resulted in overstated revenues. Quantum received a maximum $10 million loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without that loan, “we would most certainly be forced to reduce headcount. We owe it to our employees — who’ve stuck with us through a long and difficult turnaround — to do everything we can to save their jobs during this crisis,” company spokesman Bob Wientzen wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadwind Energy, a suburban Chicago maker of wind turbines that employs about 520, agreed to pay a $1 million penalty five years ago after the SEC accused it of failing to inform investors that reduced business from two major customers had caused “substantial declines” in its long-term financial prospects. Broadwind, which could not be immediately reached, received $9.5 million from the loan program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marrone Bio Innovations, a biopesticide company in Davis, California, that has about 50 workers, similarly agreed to pay $1.8 million in 2016 after the SEC alleged its chief operating officer had inflated financial results to hit projections that it would double revenues during its first year as a public company. Marrone received a loan worth $1.7 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pam Marrone, the chief executive, said the company “shouldn't be punished” for what happened with the SEC because it has had clean audits for years now. She described the investigation as a “body blow\" that cost it investors and drove its stock price under $1. She said it has had to take on $40 million in debt and is still digging itself out of the financial hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don't realize how tough it is to be a small public company like us that's not yet profitable,\" she said. \"We can't just go to investors and say, ‘OK, open up your wallets.' “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP analysis found that about 1 in 4 of the companies, in fact, had warned investors months ago that they or their auditors had significant doubts about their ability to remain viable and meet their financial obligations despite the booming economy at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One was Helius Medical Technologies, a company located near Philadelphia that develops technology to help injured brains heal themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has 19 employees and received a $323,000 loan amid a tough stretch. Its most recent annual report warned, “We may be unable to continue to operate without the threat of liquidation for the foreseeable future” and did not expect to have enough cash to go beyond May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, President and CEO Phil Deschamps said the company was able to raise enough capital earlier this year that, when paired with the loan, it can survive to early summer — when it expects to have filed for U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for its device. Without the federal money, he said, the company would have lost scientists and attorneys who help prepare regulatory submissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deschamps said his company followed the same rules and applied like any other, and that its device could help thousands of people in the future. But he also understands why some people might question giving money to publicly traded firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we didn’t qualify for whatever reason, we would have walked away and figured out another way to do it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another company that was facing financial doubts before the virus was Enservco Corp., a Denver-based oil and gas firm. In its annual report filed last month, the company said: “We do not generate adequate revenue to fund our current operations, and we incurred significant net operating losses during the years ended December 31, 2019, and 2018, which raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEO Ian Dickinson said in an interview that the $1.9 million loan his company received was welcome because he would’ve had to let go more employees than he has without it. Enservco currently has 95 employees, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dickinson said he did not believe concerns about how long the company could survive were raised in the application process with its bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, our employees are really no different than the employees of a nonpublic company,” Dickinson said. “These are funds being used to keep folks on payroll and keep food on their tables.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That big companies and ones with questionable records received such precious financial aid during the chaotic last few weeks frustrates Zachary Davis, a Santa Cruz, California, businessman who runs two artisanal ice cream shops, a beachside cafe and a taco bar with partner Kendra Baker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before a shelter-in-place order in mid-March, the two were expecting their best year to date and were on track to pay off in May the $250,000 loan from the federal government that they used 10 years ago to open their original shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were feeling pretty good about where we were in the world. 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