Not really, you would have no revenue, but you would have...

Not really, you would have no revenue, but you would have potential future revenue depending on what you wanted to do with your lease. You would not sign a lease in a shopping centre unless you had a business plan to sell something and within that plan I would hope you had a rough estimate of Potential revenue.
So maybe your argument is valid but the way you are phrasing it is causing confusion. Nuf said, no need to waste any more energy on it.