Rob - I suspect you may be right - the point I was making though was rather that idle speculation seems a bit pointless at this stage so let's just wait and see what turns up.

An operating business is better than an empty building falling further and further into disrepair (and while it's easy to bash landlords, the landlord won't want to have to continue to pay for maintenance etc if he can get a good, paying, tenant in on a FRI lease, so it is in his interests to get the place let).