If you enjoy the Paris food scene, full of little bakeries and cheese shops, you should know that the city enables this by having lower rents for locally-owned small stores. This kind of development can’t just happen without subsidy in our current business climate, and it needs to be protected.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
The thing is it's increasingly incredibly hard to just open a successful bakery unless you own the building. That's why there's a bank on every corner in nyc now - perpetually escalating rents because of increasingly corporate owners
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