Peel (or Sheffield Business Park, the owners of the site) HAVE been approached according to local media.
Media also report TWO parties expressing interest.
There could be a LOT of negative
PR for Peel if they're not careful. They got the airport site for nothing (the £1.00 was never paid as transaction costs would have outweighed the £1.00) and there's a slow dawning of public realisation that the airport might not have been as 'unviable' as was claimed. Peel seem to have 'bet the farm' on Finningley, and we can see how that has worked for them.
There's a risk that they could do real damage to Sheffield's economy by continuing with this current 'strategy'.