The area is actually fairly typical Tokyo and not really rundown, and while it is away from the official "Tokyo Midtown", it is near to arguably the most famous (aside from Tokyo Tower) tourist attraction, Asakusa Shrine. It could be said that Tokyo really has MANY downtowns, as there are 23 densely populated wards, and each has a "central" station that has extremely high density built around it, and all of them connect to this area very easily.
And even if that weren't true, it is a broadcast facility first