{"id":365699,"date":"2026-06-18T13:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365699\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:35:09","slug":"landmark-oakland-office-tower-is-foreclosed-as-market-weakness-widens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365699\/","title":{"rendered":"Landmark Oakland office tower is foreclosed as market weakness widens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 One of the landmarks of the Oakland skyline has been foreclosed due to a failed loan, a grim new indicator that the Bay Area office market remains feeble with no immediate remedies in sight.<\/p>\n<p>The Clorox Building at 1221 Broadway in downtown Oakland has been taken back through a speedy foreclosure process, documents filed on June 16 with the Alameda County Recorder\u2019s Office show.<\/p>\n<p>The deed in lieu of foreclosure for the Clorox tower represents one of the latest examples of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/01\/27\/oakland-property-office-economy-real-estate-build-loan-bank-develop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">brutal economic conditions for the office market in Oakland<\/a> and elsewhere in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p>Loan failures and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/04\/02\/oakland-property-office-build-real-estate-economy-develop-loan-downtown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fading values have begun to haunt a growing number of office buildings<\/a> in the East Bay\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n<p>An alliance of private equity titan KKR and real estate firm TMG Partners returned the Clorox Building to its lender as a result of the swift foreclosure, the county documents show.<\/p>\n<p>Heitman Capital Management took back the office tower, which is part of the City Center mixed-use complex. The Heitman Capital affiliate that now owns the property placed a value of $258.3 million on the Clorox Building through the foreclosure.<\/p>\n<p>An affiliate of KKR and TMG bought the Clorox Building in 2018, paying $253.5 million for the tower, Alameda County documents show. KKR obtained a $239.6 million loan from Heitman Capital at the time of its purchase.<\/p>\n<p>At the time that transaction occurred, commercial real estate experts described the purchase as the largest single-asset purchase in Oakland\u2019s history. The Clorox tower totals about 535,000 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the Clorox Building was bought for $165.4 million, according to Alameda County property documents.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland-based Clorox has its world headquarters in the building and is the anchor tenant for the tower. In 2012, Clorox sold the building for $110 million. The Clorox tower\u2019s other tenants include Brown &amp; Towland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 One of the landmarks of the Oakland skyline has been foreclosed due to a failed loan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,387,7,8,3010,8520,332,1533,181,100,143,145,144,388,94685],"class_list":["post-365699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-bay-area","tag-business","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-commercial-real-estate","tag-downtown-oakland","tag-east-bay","tag-keywee","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-real-estate","tag-social-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}