The site originally contained a number of small commercial buildings and the large Gloucester Street Convent.

Original plans called for the complex to be much larger and include the entire block to the north.

[citation needed] The main level contains a shopping concourse with a number of businesses.

[2] In 2019, beehives were installed on the building's roof in order to combat declining honey bee populations.

[4] One60 Elgin is briefly featured in the opening title sequence of the Ottawa-made TV series You Can't Do That On Television as a building labelled "Television Network", where a school bus pulls up to the front door and a number of children flood out and into the building, trampling the doorman (played by Les Lye).