The building is located next to Gold Creek, a natural watershed which has been lined with concrete, carrying runoff from Mount Juneau.

It also contains offices for major federal agencies, including: Reach, Inc., a Juneau-based non-profit organization, operates the 9th Street Cafe, a restaurant on the Second Floor.

During World War II, Saunders made numerous corrections to the nautical maps of the period, making the Alaskan waters much safer for the US Navy and Coast Guard.

[8] Robert Boochever was born October 2, 1917, in New York City, and was a United States federal judge and a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court.

in 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed Boochever to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, where he served until his death on October 9, 2011, at the age of 94.