[1] The original development was designed by J. Seymour Harris & Partners, and was the first slab-and-podium in the commercial centre of the city.

As part of the development, the "Bull Street Hump", a subway system for vehicles and pedestrians, was removed and repaved to create a crossing.

In 2004, contracts were exchanged and the Birmingham Alliance sold the redeveloped shopping centre, raising sale proceeds of £93 million net of costs.

In 2016 One Martineau Place, the 13-storey office building above the development (which had not been part of the 2001 modernisation of the centre, and was by then vacant, having previously been occupied by insurer Aviva) underwent a £35 million refurbishment, and was converted to a 168-room apartment hotel under the Staybridge Suites brand.

In 2017, the West Midlands Metro was extended running past the northern entrance to Martineau Place, with the Corporation Street tram stop adjacent to the centre.

In 2017, the owners of the centre secured flexible use categories for many of the units in the inner Martineau Way part of the development, which had seen higher vacancy levels than the main frontages on the outer part of the development, in order to ensure vacancies could be quickly filled.