Crews have finished the concrete foundation pour at 1510 Webster Street in Downtown Oakland for the future 19-story mass timber tower. The project has been designed and developed by Oakland-based oWOW and will eventually become the tallest mass timber building on the West Coast and the second tallest in the country. Once complete, the development will create 222 new homes above commercial and retail space.
oWow has officially broken ground on what will become the tallest timber building on the West Coast. The developer held a ceremony yesterday afternoon at 1510 Webster Street in Downtown Oakland, with members of the project team, the community, and city officials in attendance. The project will rise 19 floors with over two hundred homes. Speaking with YIMBY, oWow President Andrew Ball shared the company’s ambitious timeline for completion in 16 months.
Updated designs have been published along with new planning activity for the mass-timber tower addition at 952-960 Howard Street in SoMa, San Francisco. The proposal would build a nine-story mass-timber addition on top of a three-tower mixed-use project to create 104 new homes. oWow is the project developer and architect.
Development permits have now been filed for the 20-story mass-timber proposal for 1523 Harrison Street in Downtown Oakland, Alameda County. The project would be the tallest mass-timber tower in the State, with 269 homes directly across from 1510 Webster Street. Both projects are being developed and designed by oWow.
The same month that demolition work started for the state’s tallest mass timber tower, oWow revealed renderings for the second phase of construction on the same block. 1523 Harrison Street is set to be developed with an identically-tall timber tower. The proposal would replace a nearly half-acre surface parking lot with 269 homes in Downtown Oakland.
