The Mailbox is located in the centre of Birmingham. Previously, the location of a railway goods yard with canal wharves off the Worcester and Birmingham Canal leading to Gas Street Basin, the site was the location of the Royal Mail’s main sorting office building for Birmingham (hence its current name) which was completed in 1970. The building was converted by the Birmingham Development Company and designed by the RIBA award winning, Birmingham practice, Associated Architects. In 2013, the asset underwent a re-invention under the hand of Stanton Williams, winners of the Stirling Prize. It is the epitome of a mixed-use asset in which footfall arrives at the property from guests who visit the hotel, residents who live in the apartments, the employees of the multi-nationals that tenant the building, to customers of both the destination retail and leisure outlets.