I hope this works out... a pal of mine has a hair salon and company office in a DW unit in Leeds. They were given 72 hours notice to get out by the administrators. Cost of the vans to strip the unit, had to leave air conditioning he'd paid for behind. He's trying to accommodate the staff in the other 2 salons he owns, but he's likely going to have to make them redundant unless this deal happens and he can get back in...
Old town does seem to be having a resurgence of some sort on the leisure front, with this, the old Barracuda bar being done up, old Britannia bank on Whitefriargate now a bar, and change of use gone in to extend the old Telstar into the next along empty unit on Whitefriargate, I think a chain bar/club could potentially be moving in there. The old 1884 is having work done on it too. Interesting, and actually quite positive times...
Yes and it's not owned by Kevin Rowland, it's owned by Julian Stamford and his Japanese missus Reiko.
Poor Eileen she must have had more jizz on her over the years than a cheap prostitute / rent boy at a sex party...