CentrePoint at 58-60 Bedford Street is a 10 storey office building with a ground floor restaurant located on a busy corner site to the south of City Hall.

A red-brick six storey warehouse building for handkerchief manufacturers, ‘Gribbon Brothers’, built around 1892, previously occupied the site. In March 2000 it was demolished and the site lay empty until 2006 when construction began on the new 36,000 sq ft office and retail development. Merit Development’s 10 storey building was named the Merit Building during construction but the name was later changed to Centrepoint in March 2007.

The Independent newspaper reported in April 2008 that the building had set a new record rent level for the Belfast office market. Irish Nationwide Building Society, upon relocating its Belfast office to Centrepoint, set a new headline rent at the time of £161 per sq. m. The then previous record was set by the Metro Building (£156 per sq. m.) Later in the summer (2008) RTE also relocated its Belfast office to the building from Fanum House. In March 2010 the Financial Times acquired the 6th floor for its Belfast office.  Global insurance broker Willis Group relocated to CentrePoint in early 2012.  

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