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Old Posted Oct 13, 2022, 1:44 PM
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OAKLAND | 325 22nd Street | 487 FT | 46 FLOORS

New proposal. Would be Oakland's new tallest depending on if it gets approved and is completed before 415 20th Street.

Specs:
- 487 FT | 46 FLOORS
- 596 units (140 studios, 292 1BR, 156 2BR, and 8 penthouses)
- 25 of the units will be affordable
- 9,380 sq ft of retail
- 734-car 12-story podium garage
- Additional parking will be included for 54 bicycles

The current site:
https://goo.gl/maps/8DWkDwekhpdCtanS8

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New Renderings For Town Tower, Potential Tallest Residential Tower In Oakland



BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON OCTOBER 13, 2022

The CIM Group has submitted pre-application documents for a new 46-story residential tower at 325 22nd Street, named Town Tower, in Downtown Oakland. If built today, the project would be the tallest addition to the Alameda County skyline, rising 487 feet tall, well above the current 404-foot Ordway Building. The new plans are a shift away from 2017-era plans by CIM for an office tower at the same location.

The development will create 596 rental apartments. Of that, 25 units will be designated as affordable for very low-income residents earning between 30-50% of the Area Median Income. Residential amenities will be included on the 12th floor, with 11,600 square feet of interiors connected to the open-air pool deck and landscaped area with seating and planters.

The 46-story tower will yield around 992,660 square feet with 452,700 square feet for housing, 293,980 square feet for parking, 31,180 square feet for common space, and 9,380 square feet for retail. Unit sizes will vary with 140 studios, 292 one-bedrooms, 156 two-bedrooms, and eight penthouse units spanning between 1,450 to 1,577 square feet each.

Though no vehicular parking is required, parking will be included for 734 cars across a twelve-story garage podium facing 21st Street. The auto-oriented portion will be visually distinct for the pedestrian. The exact quantity for bicycle parking is not specified, though cyclists will find parking in the 12-story garage with 500-660 square-foot bike parking rooms on each level and a 3,300 square-foot room in the basement.

Solomon Cordwell Buenz is the project architect. The firm has had a significant influence on the Oakland skyline, having designed Atlas, the current second-tallest building in Oakland, 1900 Broadway, which is expected to top out as the third-tallest building, and 17th and Broadway, currently the city’s fourth-tallest tower.

Planning documents show the exterior takes inspiration from the woven products designed by the Ohlone People, the indigenous people of the Bay Area. The woven type, as with the proposed tower, contrasts bold vertical columns with an alternating crosswise pattern. For Town Tower, this expression is achieved with the private balconies. The angular facade is also reminiscent of modern interpretations of the Bay Window vernacular, such as with 555 California Street and MIRA in San Francisco.
https://sfyimby.com/2022/10/new-rend...n-oakland.html
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Old Posted Oct 13, 2022, 1:55 PM
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My impressions:
- Great design on the tower itself, love the woven/angled bay window facade; slim and elegant profile, good height for Oakland
- Would benefit from higher % of units being affordable
- Too much parking; would consider cutting that down by at least half and replacing with more affordable units. Ideally they could build the 12-story portion as the affordable section of the project and then put the parking underground. That being said, at least the podium has decent street interaction as is, especially since it retains the ground level architectural motif.
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Old Posted Oct 13, 2022, 2:35 PM
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Holy parking podium, Batman!! Other than that, I like this one!
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Old Posted Oct 13, 2022, 3:44 PM
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Very cool proposal! The design is creative and looks good, although I'd expect some value engineering. I'm impressed with how many solid tower projects are continuing to move through the pipeline in Oakland, although I won't hold my breath too much on seeing any of them too soon. Agreed with the other posters that the parking is ridiculous on this one, but at least the podium isn't too offensive and is massed as a separate structure from the tower.

This is an excellent spot for some serious residential density: right next to the densest concentration of jobs in Oakland, a BART station, vibrant food and nightlife, and Lake Merritt. Hoping to see it built!
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Old Posted Oct 13, 2022, 3:58 PM
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Yeah I'm a bit stunned by the amount of parking for this project. Oakland has recently been building/proposing a lot of transit oriented projects where parking is kept to a reasonable amount (usually in the 30-50% parking/unit ballpark). This one is eye-opening in that the amount of parking actually exceeds the numbers of units. And at 12 stories this might actually be the tallest parking structure in the entire Bay Area. Very head scratching especially since it's a 5 min walk to 19th St/Oakland BART station.
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Old Posted Oct 14, 2022, 12:31 AM
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12 stories of parking is truly mind-boggling. Who would want to drive up and down all those ramps every day? Hoping that Planning makes the applicant reduce the parking numbers.

Maybe they want to bank on it being a shared garage leasing spaces to other future developments that won't have parking? Doesn't make much sense considering how much surface and garage parking already exists nearby (although hopefully not as much in the future).
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^ The parking amount sucks but the notion that most residents would be coming and going daily is silly. Many people own cars and like the notion it's stored in their building for when they need it. That may be as frequently as every day for a likely small amount, or once a week or once a month.
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Old Posted Feb 2, 2023, 5:32 PM
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Permits filed and height/design slightly updated. Now up to 513 ft.

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Development Permits Filed For Town Tower, Oakland’s Tallest Residential Proposal



BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The development permit has been filed along with new renderings for the 46-story 323 22nd Street, or Two Kaiser Plaza in Downtown Oakland. Town Tower, poised to become the tallest residential tower in Alameda County, will create 596 apartments alongside a dizzying 734-car garage. CIM Group is the project developer.

The new plans have increased in height somewhat, with an extended crowning feature extending the corner from 487 feet to 513 feet above street level. The tower will replace a surface parking lot in the city center across from the city’s current tallest building, the 404-foot Ordway Building at 1 Kaiser Plaza.

The 513-foot tall tower will yield around 918,840 square feet with 452,600 square feet for housing, 9,290 square feet for retail, 293,970 square feet of parking with the 734-car garage, and additional floor area for mechanical and circulation. Additional parking is included for just 150 long-term bicycles and 30 short-term bicycles.

The unit sizes will vary with 140 studios, 284 one-bedrooms, 156 two-bedrooms, eight three-bedrooms, and eight four-bedrooms. The sizes slightly differ from the initial plans, with eight fewer one-bedrooms and eight more penthouses. Of the 596 apartments, 25 will be designated as very low-income housing for residents earning between 30-50% of the Area Median Income.

At first glance, the new renderings look like the first batch published in mid-October last year. However, the parapet has been raised a whole segment, or around 26 feet, to obscure the rooftop mechanical equipment.
https://sfyimby.com/2023/02/developm...-proposal.html
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You can see the changes to the crown.





https://sfyimby.com/2023/02/developm...-proposal.html
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Sweet! Hope it gets going up soon!
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