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Section 1. Expanding the Building Management Business

10. The Completion of the Mita-Nitto Daibiru Building

Our company’s attention was drawn to the Mita neighborhood near the Daiichi Keihin National Route—an area of Tokyo undergoing remarkable development—and we acquired 613 m2 of land in 3 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, on September 20, 1982. However, this land by itself was not effectively usable, so discussions were held with Nittokiki Co., Ltd., which owned some adjacent property 613 m2 in size, about building a jointly owned office building, and a basic agreement on joint building construction was signed. Even so, this did not secure enough space for a building. Therefore, we decided to lease an additional plot of adjacent land 327 m2 in size for 60 years (which we later acquired on March 31, 1987). This made it possible to move forward with our construction plan. The ownership stakes were 60.532% for our company and 39.468% for Nittokiki.

  • View of the entire Mita-Nitto Daibiru Building

In July 1983, at the recommendation of Nittokiki, we hired Azusa Design Office to design and supervise construction and Kajima Corporation to carry out construction. On March 1, 1984, we established the Mita-Nitto Daibiru Building project team, and construction got underway. The groundbreaking ceremony was held on May 10, 1985, and construction was completed one year, four months later, on September 25, 1986. The completed Mita-Nitto Daibiru Building was our second jointly constructed building following the Uchisaiwaicho Daibiru Building.

The structure used steel-frame reinforced concrete construction, with eight aboveground floors and one underground floor. The exterior used PC tiles with a light green tinge, producing a calming appearance in combination with the terraces on the east and west sides.

The basement floor had a garage that could accommodate 25 cars using a two-level mechanical parking system. The heat pump-based air conditioning system and other equipment were directly connected to a central monitoring system at the Hibiya Daibiru complex to provide remote control and programmable operations. We started running the system without human operators at night and during holidays. Furthermore, a mechanical security system was introduced in January 1992, eliminating the need for nighttime on-duty security guards so the facility could operate without on-site personnel at night and during holidays.

Because the original plan was to move tenants over to the Mita-Nitto Daibiru Building from the Hibiya Daibiru complex, which was going to be rebuilt in 1986, the Mita-Nitto Daibiru Building was at full occupancy immediately upon opening. When the new Hibiya Daibiru Building was completed in October 1989, those tenants moved back. However, thanks to efforts to attract new tenants, the Mita-Nitto Daibiru Building was able to find high-quality companies as new tenants, including Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. (now Nippon Steel Corporation) and Canon Sales (now Canon Marketing Japan Inc.).

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