[1] In 1984 it was converted into the Templeton Business Centre, then in 2005 a major regeneration project made it into a mixed use 'lifestyle village' incorporating apartments, office space, and the WEST brewery, bar and restaurant.

[1] After repeated design proposals had been rejected by Glasgow Corporation, James Templeton hired the famous architect William Leiper to produce a design that would be so grand it could not possibly be rejected, so William Leiper modelled the building on the Doge's Palace in Venice.

On 1 November 1889, during construction, the factory façade collapsed due to insecure fixings and the wind which blew it down.

[1][4] (The story of the disaster is carved in a section of stone beneath the base of Templeton Gate, installed during refurbishment work to the area in 2005.)

This incorporates 143 new apartments, accommodation for Sportscotland (the Scottish Institute of Sport), [IDP Architects], Front Page (a creative design studio) and the WEST brewery, bar and restaurant, which takes up the ground floor of the main building.