Chapter 5 Transformation

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2023

Section 2. Expanding Our Business

2. The Acquisition of the Toranomon Daibiru Building

In March 2005, Daibiru acquired the Shosen Mitsui Building from Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, the building’s owner, and renamed it the Toranomon Daibiru Building. Daibiru, which had been shifting its asset holdings to the Tokyo area, carried the responsibility of being the MOL Group’s core real estate subsidiary in accordance with the Group’s policy. On that basis, acquiring a building in such a prime location would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, given the extreme difficulties of acquiring property in Greater Tokyo where real estate competition was intensifying. Thus, Daibiru decided, as the MOL Group’s real estate subsidiary, to acquire the building with the viewpoint that this would enable more effective use of the Group’s assets.

  • The Toranomon Daibiru Building

Because 25 years had passed since the building’s completion, Daibiru decided to undertake large-scale renovations, which got underway in October 2005. Daibiru had four things they wanted to achieve through renovations: (1) comprehensive renovations while the tenants remained in the building, (2) radical renovation plans that would give the building a new look and feel, (3) a suitable maintenance plan for the next 30 years of building usage, and (4) energy conservation. In addition to beautification work and equipment installation, earthquake reinforcement construction was to be concentrated on weekends and public holidays in order to minimize the impact on tenants. The renovation work was successfully completed in January 2009.

Property overview Toranomon Daibiru Building
Address 2-1-1 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Date of completion November 1979
Construction steel-frame construction with some parts steel-frame reinforced concrete construction and reinforced concrete construction
Size 16 aboveground floors, three underground floors
Site area 4,652 m2
Total floor area 34,655 m2