[6] Cladding work however has been delayed due to the foreign currency shortage in Ethiopia[6] that made it harder for local businesses to fund imports, thus, affected the bank's financial[7] as it still controlled most of the country's banking activities in 2020.

[2] In February 2022, the building was officially inaugurated to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia.

[9] The building site is an 18,000 meter plot on Ras Desta Damtew Road in Addis Ababa.

[5] The building is 209 meters tall with 46 stories, two 5-story podiums, and 20-metre deep underground parking lots.

[1] Its design includes eight conference halls, an emergency waiting room for disasters, two restaurants on the top two floors, and a sightseeing tower.