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555 City Center is a 20-story, 85 m (279 ft) skyscraper in the City Center complex of downtown Oakland, California. The building was completed in 2002, and designed by Korth Sunseri Hagey Architects of San Francisco for Shorenstein Properties.

Clay Building, is a historical building in downtown Oakland, California. The Clay Building was built in 1901. The three-story brick building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1978. The Clay Building suffered major damage in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The Clay Building was a Levi Strauss factory, after the earthquake it was also the Levi Strauss headquarters. Later the Le Cheval restaurant and Tigrai Cafe opened on the ground floor. starting in 1909, Theodore Eliopolous's Eliopoulos Hellenic Company, an Egyptian cigar manufacturer was on the third floor, later moved to Webster Street by John Fisher. An auction house owned by David Bercovich operated out of the building for some years. Harry Bercovich opened a cigar shop in 1924 in the Clay Building. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the building and was repaired.

The Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building complex is a federal building complex in Oakland, California, constructed as part of the Oakland City Center redevelopment project. In 1998, the United States Congress passed a bill naming the building for former mayor and Congressman Ronald V. Dellums. It consists of two identical towers topped with pyramid-shaped roofs, echoing similar landmarks such as the Alameda County Courthouse. The towers are connected by a ground level rotunda and an elevated sky bridge. The podium of one of the towers houses a federal courthouse.Both buildings are 268 feet / 81.7 meters in height to roof, 100.0 m in height including spires.

The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (stylized as The MADE) is an Oakland, California, museum dedicated to digital art and gaming, with fully playable gaming exhibits. Its mission is to collect and curate video games, digital media concept art, and gaming systems, to teach the public about digital art and the process of gaming creation. The Board of Directors and Board of Advisors are composed largely of veterans of the gaming industry, journalists, experts, and historians of the field. The museum's director is the internationally published technology journalist Alex Handy, with Dr. Henry Lowood, Curator of Stanford University History of Science & Technology Collections and Film & Media Collections serving on the board of directors. In September 2015, the museum launched a Kickstarter campaign to acquire a venue in San Francisco, California, across the bay.In June 2022, after being closed for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum reopened in a new location in downtown Oakland.

Cosecha was a Mexican restaurant in Swan's Market in Oakland, California in the United States.

10th Street Market, also known as the Swan's Market, Oakland Free Market or the Sanitary Free Market, was a commercial market district in Oakland, California. 10th Street Market was built in 1917 and expanded in 1926. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on August 3, 2001. It is now known as Swan's Marketplaces, a mixed-use commercial and residential area. In 2001 Swan's Marketplace was awarded the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence silver medal.

Preservation Park is located in Oakland, California. The park includes sixteen historic buildings, five of which stand in their original location, and eleven of which were moved from elsewhere in Oakland to avoid demolition. The sixteen houses are arranged to resemble a late 19th-century Oakland neighborhood. The sixteen buildings are: Remillard House, Queen Anne style. Pierre Remillard was a brickyard owner, and his bricks were used in the construction of the nearby First Unitarian Church of Oakland. Lilly Remillard tutored Jack London at the home. Ginn House, English Arts and Crafts style. Frederick Burrell Ginn and wife Mary Crocker commissioned architect A. Page Brown to design the home. Brown later worked on the San Francisco Ferry Building. Nile Club (or Nile Hall), Craftsman style. The Nile Club, a members-only group of Oakland's male elite, built a theater next to Ginn House. It was later used as a USO facility. Designed by Charles W. Dickey, who also worked on the Claremont Hotel. Thornton House, Queen Anne style. Thornton was a capitalist. The home was built when the Sather House and Garden occupied the lot across the street. Jane Sather is the donor of UC Berkeley's Sather Gate and Sather Tower. Later, the home was purchased by Orrin Gowell, who became an architect in the office that designed the 1923 Tribune Tower. Higgins House, Italianate style. Elisha Higgins was a San Francisco lumber dealer. White House, Italianate style. Owned by Ellen Gould White and James White. Together, they worked within the Seventh Day Adventist church. They launched a paper called the "Sign of the Times." This building now houses the Preservation Park offices, and the Rio California cafe. Knox-Buckley House, Italianate Villa. Henry Knox was a San Francisco dentist. The house was originally located on what is now 28th Street in what is now called "Pill Hill." The house was later owned by John and Catherine Buckley. This was the last home moved to Preservation Park. Bartling House, Italianate Row House. Originally stood at what is now the 14th Street freeway overpass. Owned by William Bartling, partner in a San Francisco bookbinding firm. Park House, Italianate Villa. Charles O. Park painted train cars for the Central Pacific Railroad. This house originally stood at 7th and Grove. This home was moved twice. Robinson House, Queen Anne Cottage style. Owned by Gertrude and W.H. Robinson. Originally built in Fruit Vale, or what is now called Fruitvale. Standeford House, Shingle style. Built for Miss Stella Standeford. Her father worked at the San Francisco Mint. She later married John F. Conners, who became the owner and publisher of the Oakland Enquirer. Bauske House, Queen Anne Cottage. Built by Reinhold Bauske, dentist, for his wife, Hazel. The home was originally located near Glen Echo Creek. Trowbridge House, Stick Style. Originally built by multimillionaire Frederick William Delger for his daughter, Lillie, and her new husband, Henry Trowbridge. This home was originally located behind the Fox Oakland Theater. Jacobs House, Queen Anne style rowhouse with two interior units. Jacobs was a Prussian-trained tailor. His house was originally located on 16th Street near Jefferson, where the next-door neighbor was pianist and painter Pauline Powell Burns. Raymond House, Colonial Revival style. William J. Raymond was a professor of physics at the University of California, which, at that time, was located between 12th and 14th Streets between Franklin and Harrison Streets. Jacobs House originally stood on 16th Street. Hunt House, Queen Anne Cottage style. George C. Hunt handled horses, and with his brother, he owned the City Hall Livery Stables. The home was later owned by saloonkeeper Charles Appedorn.In addition, there are two other significant structures: the bandstand and the Latham-Ducel Fountain. The cast iron fountain was forged in Paris and features the moon goddess Diana with acanthus leaf ornament. It originally stood at Latham House and Gardens, originally located at what is now 17th and Jackson Streets. The park is open to the public during the day (the buildings are not open to the public), and areas are often rented out for parties, meetings and weddings. Many non-profits have offices here. The park is bordered by 12th Street, Castro Street, 14th Street and Martin Luther King, Jr. Way. 13th Street goes into the park and ends at the Latham-Ducel Fountain. Preservation Park Way, a one-way street, starts at the fountain, and ends at 12th Street.

Oakland City Center is an office, shopping and hotel complex in Downtown Oakland, Oakland, California. The complex is the product of a redevelopment project begun in the late 1950s. It covers twelve city blocks between Broadway on the east, Martin Luther King Jr. Way on the west, Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on 14th Street on the north side of the complex and the Oakland Convention Center and Marriott Hotel extend south to 10th Street. An hourly parking garage is located beneath the complex's shopping mall. The mall features an upscale fitness and racquet club, in addition to numerous take-out restaurants and other stores. The complex is served by the 12th Street/Oakland City Center BART station.

The African American Museum and Library at Oakland (AAMLO) is a museum and non-circulating library dedicated to preserving African American history, experiences and culture on 14th Street in Downtown Oakland. It contains an extensive archival collection of such artifacts as diaries, correspondence, photos, and periodicals.

The Pardee Home is a house in Oakland, California. It was the home of three generations of the Pardee family. It is now a non-profit museum showing over 100 years of the life of a prominent California family. The house, a well-preserved example of Italianate architecture, is a city landmark, a California Historical Landmark, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house was constructed in 1868 by California State Senator Enoch H. Pardee. His son, George Pardee, a Governor of California, also inhabited the house, inheriting it after his father's death. After George's death in 1941, it passed on to his two daughters, Madeline and Helen (the same name as her mother), who lived in the house until their deaths in 1980 and 1981 respectively. The interior of the house is the main attraction of the museum. George's wife Helen collected knick-knacks from all over the world, including scrimshaw from Alaska, tobacco pipes from the Philippines, and a giant elk head. She was fond of giving house tours to show off her collection. All of the furnishings are original and the house looks as it did in 1981. The original carriage house and stable are still standing and the entire complex is part of Oakland's Preservation Park Historic District. The house was to be demolished for the construction of Interstate 980, but conservationists were able to save the building. It opened as a public museum in 1991.

The Clorox Building is a 24-story, 100.6 m (330 ft) High-rise building in the City Center complex of downtown Oakland, California. The building was completed in 1976, and designed by Cesar Pelli when he worked with Gruen Associates now based in Los Angeles. The Oakland-based Clorox Company is headquartered in the building.

Old Oakland is a historic district in downtown Oakland, California. The area is located on the northwest side of Broadway, between the City Center complex and the Jack London Square district, and across Broadway from Chinatown. The Old Oakland district was the "original" downtown Oakland during the 1860s after Central Pacific Railroad constructed a terminus on 7th Street. By the 1870s, elegant brick Victorian hotels were being built in the blocks surrounding the railroad station to accommodate travelers. The ground floor of the hotels were designed as series of narrow shops so that pedestrians would pass by many of them just walking down the block. The architectural styles of the time featured tall, cast-iron columns and large plate-glass windows. The downtown began its decline after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, when the shopping district began moving to the blocks north of 14th. In the 1970s and 1980s developers carefully rehabilitated and restored a block along 9th Street between Washington Street and Broadway, known as "Victorian Row". Notable structures on Victorian Row include the 1878 Nicholl Block building. In its early days, the Oakland Tribune rented a small office on 9th Street. A sign for the Tribune office can still be seen hanging outside the building today (2007). A farmer's market is also held every Friday on the same stretch of 9th Street. As of 2008, the neighborhood continues to gentrify as a 'downtown lifestyle' district, more bistros and boutiques have cropped-up, as more market-rate condominiums have been constructed nearby, and as transit-oriented development retail and housing become more and more in demand. Swan's Market for example is an indoor-outdoor market and popular gather place for lunch.