{"id":251165,"date":"2025-10-25T18:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/251165\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T18:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:02:11","slug":"updated-plans-for-11-story-1523-harrison-street-downtown-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/251165\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated Plans For 11-Story 1523 Harrison Street, Downtown Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated plans have been published for a potential 11-story affordable housing complex at <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/category\/1523-harrison-street\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1523 Harrison Street<\/a> in D<a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/neighborhoods\/downtown-oakland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">owntown Oakland<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/neighborhoods\/alameda-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alameda County<\/a>. The filing follows up on a request for by-right approval in mid-July this year. The developer, <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/category\/owow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oWow<\/a>, has pursued several iterations for the site since renderings were shared in 2022 for an 18-story mass timber tower next to their now-complete tower, Andys, at <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/category\/1510-webster-street\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1510 Webster Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 106-foot-tall structure is expected to yield around 195,360 square feet, including 164,800 square feet of housing and 30,540 square feet for the podium garage. Parking will be included in the two-story concrete podium, with nine floors of tall mass timber construction. Parking will be included for 105 cars and 86 bicycles. Unit types will vary with 63 studios, 203 one-bedrooms, and 18 two-bedrooms.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1523-Harrison-Street-seen-from-15th-Street-rendering-by-oWow.jpg\" alt=\"1523 Harrison Street seen from 15th Street, rendering by oWow\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1414\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1523 Harrison Street seen from 15th Street, rendering by oWow<\/p>\n<p>oWow\u2019s in-house architecture firm is responsible for the design, with civil engineering by <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/category\/calichi-design-group\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CaliChi<\/a>. The duo-tone facade will contrast white and blue panels of laminate rainscreen cladding. Dark grey fiber cement panels will wrap around the base to add visual texture for the pedestrian experience.<\/p>\n<p>oWow purchased the 0.48-acre surface lot in March 2022 for $9.3 million, and has been pursuing a potential mass timber residential tower of varying height and capacity ever since. The tallest iteration for the site surfaced in June last year, when oWow filed plans for a 28-story building, which would make it among the tallest mass timber buildings in the world. Decreased plans were filed in January 2025, and by-right approval was requested in July. The by-right approval request is currently listed as incomplete and under review within the city\u2019s planning department.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1523-Harrison-Street-facade-elevations-illustration-by-oWow.jpg\" alt=\"1523 Harrison Street facade elevations, illustration by oWow\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1173\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1523 Harrison Street facade elevations, illustration by oWow<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1523-Harrison-Street-image-via-Google-Street-View.jpg\" alt=\"1523 Harrison Street, image via Google Street View\" width=\"1500\" height=\"826\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1523 Harrison Street, image via Google Street View<\/p>\n<p>The property is bound by Harrison Street, Webster Street, 15th Street, and 17th Street. Future residents will be just a six-minute walk from the 19th Street BART Station, and a minute away from Snow Park overlooking Lake Merritt.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated cost and timeline for construction have yet to be established.<\/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:\/\/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\/1523-harrison-street\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1523 Harrison Street<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/category\/calichi-design-group\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CaliChi Design Group<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/category\/owow\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oWOW<\/a><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":"Updated plans have been published for a potential 11-story affordable housing complex at 1523 Harrison Street in Downtown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-251165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}