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Top 25 Tallest Buildings in Oakland, #1 The Ordway Building

Updated: Aug 6, 2023

Ordway Building
Here is a fully updated list of the tallest 25 buildings in Oakland. We found a lot of factually incorrect and outdated list ranking high on Google so we decided to give you the proper information.

RankBuildingHeightFloorsYear BuiltSiteAddress
1Ordway Building404 ft281970Site1 Kaiser Plaza
2Atlas Apartments400 ft402020Site385 14th St
31900 Broadway394 ft392023Site1900 Broadway
4Kaiser Center390 ft281960Site300 Lakeside Dr
517th and Broadway380 ft342019Site447 17th Street
6Lake Merritt Plaza371 ft271985Site323 20th St
7601 City Center367 ft242019Site601 12th St
81111 Broadway360 ft241990Site1111 Broadway
9Kaiser Engineering Building336 ft251984Site1800 Harrison St
10Clorox Building330 ft241976Site1221 Broadway
11EM Harris State Office Building328 ft221998Site1515 Clay St
12Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building328 ft181994Site1301 Clay St
131200 Lakeshore325 ft251964Site1200 Lakeshore
14Oakland City Hall320 ft 141914Site1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
15Tribune Tower310 ft221906Site409 13th St
161330 Broadway297 ft181958Site1330 Broadway
17Center 21296 ft201984Site2101 Webster St
18555 City Center279 ft202002Site555 12th St
19Oakland Marriott273 ft251969Site1001 Broadway
20Park Bellevue Tower270 ft251969Site565 Bellevue Ave
211717 Webster270 ft252020Site1717 Webster St
22St. Paul’s Towers267 ft221966Site100 Bay Place
23ZO 330 / 1700 Webster265 ft242019Site330 17th St
24The Grand Apartments263 ft222008Site100 Grand Ave
25Skyline at Temescal260 ft252020Site3883 Turquoise Way

The Ordway building is the tallest building in Oakland and tallest building in the Bay Area outside of San Francisco. It is 28 floors high and was built in 1970.

The Architecture for this building was Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

It will remain the tallest building for a while, other buildings are in the works but have yet to gain approval.

There is a group of crybabies complaining about Oakland having tall buildings. Oakland is awesome, let it reach for the sky.

While gathering data for this factual article, we noticed an alarming trend. The office buildings are full of empty floors. Not just suites, but entire floors are vacant in every building. Lots of them.

The same for the apartment buildings, lots and lots of vacant units, yet they still ask $2,000 – $3,000 for a one-bedroom. The demand is not there, they are overpriced, but the companies would rather take massive monthly losses than price it at what they should be, less than $1k for a one-bedroom. One unit sits empty for 6 months at a time losing thousands upon thousands of dollars just to overcharge you several thousand when you finally rent it. Something must be done by local officials. It is a scam.

What leads to this? While researching the sales history of these top 25 buildings, we noticed that they are bought and resold over and over by “Asset Management Firms” and “Investment Groups” whose sole job is to increase the price without reason.

So one building can be sold as many as 5 times in a 10-year period and of course, the price can only go up. These companies are not improving the building but instead just holding a few years and selling based on an imaginary capital gain. All the while the only way to make money on the imaginary gains is to increase the rent and lease prices. It is a major scam being carried out on the American public and it is easy to see when you do local market research like we did for this article of the top 25 tallest buildings in Oakland.

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