 By end of June 2013, Sandwell Arts Trust have indicated that 1,000,000 visitors will have been through the doors.Despite all its problems, The Public became an icon of the region and drew in visitors from the local area as well the Midlands and beyond.It was still reliant on public-subsidy but also gained income from hires, tenants and events, and planned to increase earned income once the building work that had surrounded was completed in summer 2013.