{"id":387956,"date":"2026-07-06T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387956\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:23:11","slug":"materials-submitted-for-a-small-conversion-at-316-12th-street-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/387956\/","title":{"rendered":"Materials Submitted for a Small Conversion at 316 12th Street in Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"777\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/316-12th-Street-image-via-oWOW-777x506.png\" class=\"u-photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"316 12th Street, image via oWOW\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>316 12th Street, image via oWOW<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\"> By: <a rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" class=\"fn p-author h-card\" href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/author\/gabriel\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriel Clark-Clough<\/a> 4:30 am on July 6, 2026<\/p>\n<p>A pre-application including several basic pieces of information was submitted for a property at <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/category\/316-12th-street\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">316 12th Street<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/neighborhoods\/oakland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland.<\/a> The planned project would keep the property exterior unchanged, while making interior modifications to the layout and building use. The main expected change from the renovations is the conversion of its existing office and retail space to nine additional housing units and residential support spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the Oakland developer and architecture firm <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/category\/owow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oWOW<\/a> completed a project at the same site, inserting a five-story mass timber construction setback behind a historic fa\u00e7ade. Until now, the building was broken up into first-floor retail, second-floor office, and third through fifth floors consisting of 27 residential units. This project would convert the full second floor into an additional nine units and change the first floor retail into a lobby and residential amenity space.<\/p>\n<p>Little to no changes would be made to the building\u2019s exterior, which will remain a setback five-story modern-style structure, with a historic brick and tiled building front directly against the street. For the interior, it is assumed that the layout for the second floor would closely resemble that of the floors above, as it will contain the same number of units in the same amount of space with similar building systems needs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-46966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/316-12th-Street-Sample-Interior-image-via-oWOW-1024x668.png\" alt=\"316 12th Street Sample Interior, image via oWOW\" width=\"1024\" height=\"668\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">316 12th Street Sample Existing Unit Interior, image via oWOW<\/p>\n<p>The building\u2019s location is near the heart of <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/neighborhoods\/downtown-oakland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown Oakland<\/a> and within walking distance of both the 12th Street BART and Lake Merritt BART stations. While excellently situated for potential tenants of any kind, it is likely that the property owners found the high housing demand in the area a better investment than maintaining an office\/retail property in an area with other competing vacancies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-46967\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/View-Past-316-12th-Street-image-via-oWOW-1024x732.png\" alt=\"View Past 316 12th Street, image via oWOW\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">View Past 316 12th Street, image via oWOW<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/hdjqhz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> to YIMBY\u2019s daily e-mail<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsfyimby.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/google_preferred_source_badge.png\" width=\"245\" height=\"40\" alt=\"Make YIMBY preferred on Google\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/yimbygram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Follow<\/a> YIMBYgram for real-time photo updates<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YIMBYFB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like<\/a>\u00a0YIMBY on Facebook<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yimbytweets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Follow<\/a> YIMBY\u2019s Twitter for the latest in YIMBYnews<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/category\/316-12th-street\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">316 12th Street<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/category\/owow\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oWOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"316 12th Street, image via oWOW By: Gabriel Clark-Clough 4:30 am on July 6, 2026 A pre-application including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-387956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387956","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=387956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}