OAKLAND — Kaiser Permanente is warning it plans to slash its downtown Oakland headquarters footprint, an ominous determination that offers a contemporary blow to a reeling Bay Space workplace market.
The disclosure was contained in a Fitch Scores report about a number of business actual property properties, with a particular concentrate on the Oakland tower at 1 Kaiser Plaza.
The 28-story Ordway Constructing totals 537,800 sq. ft and at 404 ft is the tallest Bay Space skyscraper exterior of San Francisco.
Kaiser Basis Well being Plan is the first tenant within the constructing. Kaiser occupies an estimated 69.4% of the constructing, the Fitch Scores report states. That may equate to a Kaiser occupancy totaling 373,200 sq. ft.
CIM Group, via an affiliate, owns the constructing, which the actual property agency purchased in 2008 for $82.1 million, paperwork on file in Alameda County present. In January 2024, the constructing’s estimated worth was $161 million, the County Assessor’s Workplace studies.
Now, nonetheless, the workplace tower, perched on a outstanding spot subsequent to Lake Merritt in downtown Oakland, faces an unsure destiny as a result of prospect that Kaiser will drastically downsize its presence within the constructing.
The present mortgage on the constructing totals $97.1 million, in line with a carefully watched Trepp Experiences property weblog that was posted in 2019.
That mortgage, deemed to be in misery, has been transferred to a particular mortgage servicer, in line with the Fitch Scores report, which was issued in September. Particular mortgage servicing is an indication that the borrower would possibly grow to be delinquent on a mortgage.
Making issues worse, Kaiser has notified its landlord that it intends to shrink its footprint within the Ordway Constructing, Fitch reported.
“According to the servicer, Kaiser has exercised an option to downsize by 130,085 square feet, which would result in a decline of the building occupancy to 59%,” Fitch Scores reported.
The 130,100 sq. ft is about one-fourth of the workplace area in all the tower.
Kaiser this 12 months is orchestrating downsizing efforts on a number of fronts in downtown Oakland. These efforts embrace lease terminations and property gross sales within the East Bay metropolis.
In latest months, Kaiser bought two workplace properties in downtown Oakland:
— In August 2024, Kaiser Basis Well being Plan bought an workplace constructing at 2000 Broadway to BART for the transit company’s police headquarters. The acquisition value was $25.5 million.
— In September 2024, Kaiser Basis Well being Plan bought an workplace constructing and related storage to an affiliate headed up by residential developer Behring Cos. for $14.4 million.
5 years in the past, Kaiser had a unique mindset about its presence in downtown Oakland.
With a lot fanfare, Kaiser unveiled plans in 2019 for an attention grabbing new headquarters complicated in Oakland’s Uptown district. The $900 million, 29-story tower within the Uptown district would have served as Kaiser’s new headquarters.
The healthcare group was planning to consolidate all of its administrative workplace operations right into a single tower that might have accommodated 7,200 employees.
The financial maladies unleashed by the coronavirus finally prompted Kaiser to scuttle its plans fro the brand new skyscraper.