Sendai Trust Tower, High-rise building in Sendai Trust City, Japan
Sendai Trust Tower is a 180-meter skyscraper in Aoba-ku, Sendai, completed in 2010. Its 37 above-ground floors and 2 basement levels hold offices, the Westin Hotel Sendai, and the Trust City Plaza shopping area. The tower's lower levels are divided into three entrances along Higashi-Nibancho-dori: the hotel on the south, offices in the center, and the plaza on the north.
Construction started in 2007 and finished in 2010 as part of growth in the Tohoku region. The project was part of changing how the city center looked and functioned.
The site was occupied by Tohoku Gakuin Middle and High School until its April 2005 move to Kotsurugi in Miyagino-ku; Mori Trust bought the land that November. The complex's name changed from the provisional Sendai Ichibancho Project on 24 June 2008. At the opening, New York chocolate shop Jacques Torres, a first for Japan, and Subway, a first for Tohoku, were covered by local media.
The building offers plenty of parking for cars, bicycles, and motorcycles throughout different levels. Finding your way inside is straightforward thanks to clear signage in main areas.
The Residence Ichibancho, the 29-storey condominium next to the tower, is built on a base isolation structure. After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake it suffered little damage, and with the all-electric flats' power restored the day after the quake, buyers moving from damaged homes pushed occupancy from about 70% to roughly 90% by the end of June, and it sold out the following year.
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