After its decommission, new uses for the water tower were sought for a long time. The city of Helsinki was ready to give up the building it had no use for any more, and several entities were interested in the water tower, with plans to convert it into a café, a testing area for rescue equipment, a memorial, or residential apartments. There were no spaces in the water tower that could be converted into apartments, as the conversion work would have been expensive and would probably have required building a new floor.
