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and later, in the fall of 1993, moved some of its marketing
division employees into the building.
From 1987 through 1989, NITCO had no plans to build other
principal office facilities for itself or to expand and enlarge
its offices at 205 North Washington Street. In securing office
facilities for NITCO, Mr. Mussman's longstanding practice was to
own individually the office building and lease it to NITCO. As
the building's owner, Mr. Mussman, rather than NITCO, financed
and constructed the building. NITCO's respective lease
agreements with Mr. Mussman on the 205 and 301 North Washington
Street buildings were entered into prior to each building's
construction, so that Mr. Mussman could use the executed lease
agreement to secure financing from a lender to construct the
building. Mr. Mussman experienced no difficulty in obtaining
loans to construct the 205 and 301 North Washington Street
buildings. The lease agreements and the mortgages on the
buildings served as the security for the lender's loans to Mr.
Mussman.
No enlargement of NITCO's offices at 205 North Washington
Street occurred from 1987 through 1994.
C. NITCO's Alcatel Telephone Switching Equipment
During 1985 through 1987, NITCO replaced the old switching
systems at its five exchanges with new digital switching
equipment it purchased from Alcatel, a French manufacturer of
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