Originally it housed part of the staff training department of Midland Bank, now HSBC.

Space was initially hard to let because the building was located away from the city's main office area.

[2] The West Midlands area Health and Safety Executive had moved from Somerset House by February 1978,[3] and was the main tenant having taken 50,000 square feet (4,600 m2) of the total 120,000 square feet (11,000 m2) available.

[2] The building is owned by property company Bruntwood who purchased it from the Birmingham Alliance in 2008.

List of tallest buildings and structures in the Birmingham Metropolitan Area, West Midlands