Kitamachi Apaato 5The Aoyama Kitamachi Apaato, a city-operated public housing complex located on a prime 40,000 sqm site in the centre of Omotesando, is going to be replaced with a 20-storey high-rise apartment building.

The current site includes 25 public housing blocks containing a total of 586 apartments. They were built between 1957 and 1968 and are now in various stages of ageing and deterioration. The 4 and 5 storey buildings do not have elevators, and some of the earlier buildings did not have bathrooms (in those days the residents would have gone to local bathhouses).

Since 2006, Tokyo City has been slowly vacating the tenants in preparation of redevelopment. Almost half of the apartments are vacant, while remaining residents gradually move out.

Demolition is scheduled to start in 2017, and completion is expected in time for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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The first stage of the project will include a 20-storey city-owned public housing complex to be built on a 10,000 sqm section on the southern side of the site. The lower floors will contain childcare facilities, while the 300 apartments above will range from 1 ~ 3-Bedroom units.

An adjoining 8,000 sqm parcel of land will be leased to a private developer under a fixed-term land lease for the construction of a second apartment building. The size and scale of this building is yet to be decided.

The northern half of the site will be developed after the Olympics. This site, along with semi-governmental housing that fronts onto Aoyama Dori Avenue, could possible be developed into a commercial and retail complex with the goal of creating a fashion and IT hub.

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Source: The Sankei Shimbun, January 28, 2016.

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