[1] From 2006 to 2018, the skyscraper was the tallest building in Greater Manchester and outside London in the United Kingdom.

In November 2018, it was surpassed by the South Tower at Deansgate Square, which is 201 m (659 ft) tall.

[4] The hotel has a four-storey annex, containing a swimming pool, ballroom, conference rooms and a coffee shop.

Invented by Lancashire chemist John Mercer (1791 1866), mercerisation, the treating of cotton with caustic soda to give it a smooth silken sheen, is a process still used today.

[6] Ian Simpson, the architect of the building (described as "the UK's first proper skyscraper outside London"), bought the top two floors – the 48th and 49th.