1091 Calcot Pl
Suite 101: 1,375 SF for lease in Oakland, CA.
Suite 101 (1,375 SF) and Suite 208 (1,575 SF) give growing companies a real footprint without the overhead of a full-floor lease — a rare fit for owners who've outgrown a home office but don't need 5,000+ SF.
Housed in the 1917 California Cotton Mills building, exposed brick and mill-era architecture give tenants a distinctive, branded workspace that a standard business park can't match.
The property sits inside one of Oakland's most established creative districts — galleries, studios, and murals on the doorstep, with the kind of neighborhood identity that helps a small business stand out.
Part of a long-running live/work and office campus with an active mix of small businesses and creative tenants, on-site parking, and the built-in flexibility to lease exactly the amount of space needed.
Building specifications
Jingletown — Oakland's Estuary Arts District
1091 Calcot Pl sits in Jingletown, a former industrial pocket along the Oakland Estuary near the Fruitvale district. Named for the coin-jingling sound of Portuguese cannery workers who once populated the area's factories, Jingletown has spent the last four decades reinventing its warehouses and mill buildings into working artist studios, galleries, and small-business space — the California Cotton Mills complex itself is one of the anchors of that transformation.
The location gives tenants easy access to the I-880 corridor, which runs along the neighborhood's edge and connects directly to downtown Oakland, the Bay Bridge into San Francisco, and the greater East Bay. Fruitvale BART station and the surrounding Fruitvale commercial corridor are close by, and Oakland International Airport is a short drive south — practical access for a small business without a downtown-high-rise price tag.
East Bay Flex and Small-Suite Industrial Space Faces Elevated Vacancy Even as Overall Market Holds
Kidder Mathews' Q1 2026 East Bay Industrial Market Report shows Oakland — the region's largest industrial submarket at 34.5 million SF — posting a 9.3% direct vacancy rate and average asking rents of $1.43/SF/month NNN, with negative net absorption of roughly 386,000 SF for the quarter as the broader market continues to digest space amid slower demand.
Smaller, multi-tenant flex product — the category closest to a business park like Cotton Mill Studios — is running notably softer than the market overall, with 14.2% direct vacancy and 15.9% total availability regionwide. For small-space users, that translates into more negotiating room and more available inventory than the headline Oakland industrial numbers alone would suggest.
Source: Kidder Mathews, East Bay Industrial Market Report, Q1 2026
How we'd position this listing
This is a play on character and size, not scale. In a market where flex/small-suite vacancy is running well above the headline Oakland industrial rate, a prospective tenant has real leverage — and few available spaces in Oakland offer the built-in identity of a converted 1917 mill building in an active arts district.
For a small business or creative operator who wants to be somewhere with a story — not a generic suburban business park — Jingletown's combination of I-880 access, Fruitvale BART proximity, and an established tenant community makes 1091 Calcot Pl worth a serious look at either suite size.
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