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Ordway Building 
Alternative names One Kaiser Plaza General information Type Commercial offices Location 2150 Valdez Street
OaklandCoordinates 37°48′36″N 122°15′50″W / 37.8099°N 122.2640°WCoordinates: 37°48′36″N 122°15′50″W / 37.8099°N 122.2640°W Completed 1970 Height Roof 123.14 m (404.0 ft) Technical details Floor count 28 Design and construction Main contractor Turner Construction Architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill References [1][2][3] The Ordway Building (also known as One Kaiser Plaza) is a skyscraper located in downtown Oakland, California. The building lies close to Oakland's Lake Merritt and the tower contains 28 stories of office space. There are eight corner offices per floor, since the skyscraper has a H-shaped floor plan. Standing 123 m (404 ft), the tower is the tallest skyscraper in the city and the entire Bay Area outside of San Francisco.
The Ordway Building's main tenant is Kaiser Permanente, which has used the building as its national headquarters since completion in 1970. As of 2009, Kaiser was leasing space on 21 floors. Kaiser announced on August 6, 2009 that it had signed a new nine-year lease with landlord CIM Group.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Ordway Building at Emporis
- ^ Ordway Building at SkyscraperPage
- ^ Ordway Building at Structurae
- ^ Chris Rauber and Blanca Torres (6 August 2009). "Kaiser Permanente signs 9-year Oakland HQ lease". The San Francisco Business Times. http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/08/03/daily99.html. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
Timeline of the tallest buildings in Oakland, California Bank of America Building (69 m) (1907) · Oakland City Hall (98 m) (1914) · Kaiser Center (118 m) (1960) · Ordway Building (123 m) (1970)
Categories:- Buildings and structures completed in 1970
- Buildings and structures in Oakland, California
- Headquarters in the United States
- Skyscrapers between 100 and 149 meters
- Skyscrapers in California
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