For a long time, it appeared that government agencies were the only likely tenants.
Mr. Austin said the likely tenants would be telecommunications, financial service, computer and insurance companies -- "your staple bread and butter firms".
Robert K. Futterman of RKF Associates, another retail brokerage firm, said retail rents in the area were unlikely to exceed $50 a foot and that the most likely tenants would be restaurants and bars, rather than stores.
And city officials have posed some fascinating questions about whether the new Lower Manhattan shouldn't be much more a neighborhood, providing housing to apartment-starved New Yorkers, rather than a collection of offices for which there are not, currently, any likely tenants.
When the pyramids were planned, Mr. Speyer said, the likeliest tenant would be a restaurant.
Joe Alexander and Gail Karvonen of Portland, Ore., bought one of the units to rent out in the summer, keeping in mind their potential tenants' likely reason for coming to the area.
Schroders, another potential tenant, is also likely to rent elsewhere.
As you did not enter into a written agreement, but previously used a letting agent, it seems likely your tenant has an assured shorthold tenancy.
If the letter writer's lease contains a provision for a security deposit, as is likely, the tenant is subject to that provision, Mr. Sokolski said.
No new shows have been announced for the Imperial, but several Broadway producers say that Cameron Mackintosh's revival of "Les Miserables" – which is due to open in March 2014 – is a likely future tenant.
