350 Bush St

Where 350 Bush St is

Its block in Downtown San Francisco, drawn from San Francisco's own building outlines and street centerlines.

The plan: window line, shape and floor rhythm

42 ft of exterior wall for each home the screen estimates — enough for two- and three-bedroom homes across the plan.

The typical floor has 380 ft of exterior wall, and across 18 residential floors the building carries 6,840 ft of it in total, divided among the 161 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is compact at 0.73: close to a square or a circle, the most efficient envelope an office can have and the least generous one for apartments: little perimeter to divide among homes. How window line and plate shape are measured.

At the model’s 750 sq ft average, the plan works out at about 8.9 homes per floor, repeated on every residential floor, since this building's outline does not change as it rises.

Why 350 Bush St scores 100 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 100, Interior depth 100, Scale 100, Finance 100 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Every component scores at or near full marks, so nothing in the geometry or the pro-forma is holding this one back — daylight efficiency carries the most weight of the four.

Built in 2018

San Francisco records this building as going up in 2018, which puts it in the modern stock.

As a rule, newer systems and better structure, but usually built deep and sealed for office use, and rarely cheap enough to buy at a price that lets a conversion pencil. That is the era’s general tendency rather than a finding about this building — the model reads an outline and a height, and can see nothing inside — but it is the first thing an architect would want to know, and it colours how much confidence the 100% daylight figure above deserves.

What the conversion would cost

$405 per square foot all-in across 151,411 sq ft of converted floor, or $61.3M in total — about $381K for each of the 161 homes.

That cost is charged across every converted square foot, including the circulation and service area that earns nothing directly. Against it the model sets a completed value of $366K a home, which for 161 homes is $58.9M.

What would have to be true

A $2.4M gap before any grant, which the modeled $9.7M closes. What would reopen it soonest: circulation efficiency 11% down.

The shortfall before any grant is $2.4M. Closing it from the value side means each of the 161 homes finishing at $381K rather than the $366K the model assumes — 4% more. Closing it from the cost side means getting all-in cost down from $405 to $389 per square foot.

A modeled RESIDE grant of $9.7M moves that threshold to $321K a home. That is below the assumed value, which is why this building counts as unlocked by the grant — subject to it qualifying under the law's vacant-and-abandoned test, which this data cannot show.

Each of these, moved on its own, would be enough to undo that for 350 Bush St:

All four are sliders in the survey, where 350 Bush St re-scores against your own numbers.

How it compares in Downtown San Francisco

350 Bush St ranks 1st of the 205 buildings screened here, against a median score of 87.

Its floor plate is better lit than 100% of them, and shallower than 71% of them at its deepest interior point. On size it is the 99th largest by estimated homes. The full survey of all 205 buildings ranks and maps every one of them, and the list by address links each to its own page.

Within Financial District/South Beach and the C-3-O zone

1st of 165 in Financial District/South Beach, 1st of 88 zoned C-3-O — the comparison that shares its rules, rents and streets.

San Francisco places 165 of the screened buildings in Financial District/South Beach. 350 Bush St ranks 1st of them against a median score of 88, the top score in the group. 121 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 47 ft from a facade against this building’s 35 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 40,456 homes. The group’s top scorer is 870 Market St, at 100.

88 of the screened buildings are zoned C-3-O. 350 Bush St ranks 1st of them against a median score of 89, the top score in the group. 76 score 70 or more, their median deepest interior point is 44 ft from a facade against this building’s 35 ft, and together they would hold an estimated 21,444 homes. The group’s top scorer is 266 Bush St, at 100.

Its nearest match in size: 160 Sansome St

The screened building closest to 350 Bush St in converted floor area is 160 Sansome St: 149,513 sq ft over 17 stories, against 151,411 sq ft over 19 here.

350 Bush St scores 100 to its 95, and with the size held roughly equal most of that lead comes from interior depth: 100 out of 100 here, 83 there (deepest interior point 47 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft). On the money they sit in the same place: each pencils only with the modeled RESIDE grant. The two stand about 900 ft apart.

Would it qualify for a RESIDE Act grant?

The model awards 350 Bush St $9.7M, on the assumption it qualifies. Whether it does, no published dataset can say.

That figure assumes the building meets the Act’s vacant-and-abandoned test, which turns on code-enforcement and receivership records no city publishes.

It does not sit in a 2018 designated Opportunity Zone, so it would not draw that Section 201 priority.

Other buildings screened near 350 Bush St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 330 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

• 222 Kearny St
  6 stories · 100% daylit · 50 estimated homes · scores 90/100 (Strong candidate)
  about 330 ft away
• 101 Montgomery St
  28 stories · 100% daylit · 290 estimated homes · scores 100/100 (Strong candidate)
  about 350 ft away
• 240 Montgomery St
  17 stories · 99% daylit · 138 estimated homes · scores 99/100 (Strong candidate)
  about 370 ft away
• 266 Bush St
  10 stories · 100% daylit · 246 estimated homes · scores 100/100 (Strong candidate)
  about 400 ft away