The tower was originally constructed as the
Olds Tower, named after the automotive industrialist,
Ransom Eli Olds, who was the main financier of the tower project, assisted by Edmund C. Shields of the local law firm of Thomas Shields & Silsbee. Shortly thereafter it was renamed Capital Bank Tower, after the bank that
Ransom Eli Olds helped form. The
cornerstone was laid on November 14, 1929 It became the Michigan National Bank Tower in 1954, and held that name until 2001 when
Standard Federal Bank purchased
Michigan National Bank. At the request of Standard Federal, the owners of the tower removed the historic neon 'Michigan National' sign in that year. After four-and-a-half years without a name, the Boji family, a father and son development team of
Iraqi descent who owned the tower since 1998, renamed it the Boji Tower in 2005. The tower has been through one major expansion which occurred between 1965 and 1967, which include the addition of an 11-story annex built directly adjacent to the front of the tower. The tower has undergone multiple minor renovations since 1998 under the Boji Group's ownership. In November 2007, the building's original antenna tower for
WITL-FM was replaced via helicopter with a new antenna for WJZL (Now
WLMI). ==Description==