2229 Washington Ave
±5,300 SF for lease in San Leandro, CA.
At ±8,133 SF, the fenced, paved yard is larger than the ±5,300 SF building itself — a rare ratio in this submarket that suits outdoor storage, fleet parking, equipment staging, or contractor laydown users who can't find that footprint in typical small-bay industrial product.
Six drive-in/roll-up doors give tenants direct grade-level access for loading trucks, trailers, or equipment straight into the building — practical for distribution, service, or light industrial operations that need more than a single dock door.
CC zoning opens the door to a wide range of uses beyond pure industrial — general retail, auto sales/service, food service, and day care are all permitted — giving a prospective tenant or owner-user more optionality than a standard industrial-zoned building.
Positioned in San Leandro's established industrial-commercial corridor with quick access to I-880, the site sits within the broader Oakland/East Bay logistics market and within a few minutes of downtown San Leandro, San Leandro BART, and the Oakland International Airport / Port of Oakland gateway.
Building specifications
San Leandro / East Bay Industrial Submarket
2229 Washington Ave sits within San Leandro's long-established industrial-commercial corridor along the I-880 spine connecting Oakland and the South Bay. The location gives tenants fast freeway access while remaining close to downtown San Leandro, San Leandro's BART and Amtrak Capitol Corridor station, and the Oakland International Airport / Port of Oakland gateway a few miles to the north — a combination that has long made San Leandro a preferred infill location for distribution, service, and light-industrial users who need to move people and goods efficiently around the East Bay.
San Leandro is part of the broader Oakland/East Bay industrial market, one of the tightest logistics markets on the West Coast due to the scarcity of developable industrial land. According to Kidder Mathews' Q2 2026 East Bay Industrial Market Report, the San Leandro/San Lorenzo submarket totals roughly 24.6 million square feet of inventory with a 7.8% direct vacancy rate — tighter than the East Bay's overall 8.7% direct vacancy — underscoring continued, if moderating, demand for well-located space in the corridor.
Institutional Capital Continues Targeting San Leandro Industrial
In late October 2025, Sagard Real Estate announced the acquisition of a 260,989-square-foot industrial facility in San Leandro, sited on 10.83 acres in the Oakland-East Bay corridor with access to Interstates 880 and 580. The building, constructed in 1973 and renovated in 2024, features 28-foot clear heights, 30 dock-high doors, and a 1.43-acre laydown/outdoor storage court — the kind of yard-heavy configuration increasingly sought after by logistics and distribution users in the East Bay.
Sagard's release cited the broader Oakland/East Bay industrial market's roughly 279 million square feet of inventory and pointed to "strong fundamentals supported by limited new development and sustained tenant demand" as the rationale for continued institutional investment in the corridor — a vote of confidence in San Leandro specifically as new industrial supply in the market remains scarce.
Source: Sagard Real Estate press release via BusinessWire, October 31, 2025
How we'd position this listing
This is a functional, flexible small-bay building whose real value is outside the four walls: an ±8,133 SF paved yard on a ±0.40-acre site gives a tenant land-intensive capability — vehicle storage, staging, equipment yard — that's difficult to source in San Leandro's tight, largely built-out industrial corridor.
With CC zoning permitting retail, auto, and service uses alongside industrial, and San Leandro/San Lorenzo running a sub-8% direct vacancy rate as of Q2 2026, well-located small-bay product with outdoor space tends to lease efficiently — particularly for owner-operators and regional service businesses that have struggled to find yard-heavy space elsewhere in the East Bay.
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