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"I heard Sean Quigley, who runs Paxton Gate, describe his taxidermy-and-oddities shop (open for more than 30 years) as squeezed by landlords’ disinterest in lowering rents; he advocated for steeper vacancy taxes to allow realistic rental adjustments and wrote that “We’ll see a Valencia renaissance bringing back the ma and pa shops” if policy changes follow." - Paolo Bicchieri