104 S Market St

104 S Market St is a 8-story building in Downtown San José with 86% of its floor area within daylight reach of a facade. This screen estimates 164 homes and scores it 87 out of 100 for office-to-residential conversion suitability.

CA-16 · Screened 2026-09-12 · Strong candidate

104 S Market St86% of each floor sits within daylight reach of a facade. The hatched area is windowless core: 3,703 sq ft per floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. Deepest interior point: 55 ft from the nearest window.

This building does not pencil on its own, but a modeled RESIDE Act grant closes the gap.

Every floor carries 3,703 sq ft of windowless core — area that must be gutted, seismically braced and sprinklered but can never be rented as an apartment. Across 7 residential floors that is 25,922 sq ft of cost carrying no revenue.

Modeled conversion metrics for 104 S Market St, 2026-09-12.
Suitability scoreStrong candidate87 / 100
Storiesfrom 91 ft LiDAR height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor8
Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint25,749 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade86%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft55 ft
Windowless coreper floor — renovated but never rentable3,703 sq ft
Estimated homesat 750 sq ft average164
Conversion cost$405/sq ft all-in on 180,242 sq ft$73.0M
Gap before grantshortfall against completed value$3.3M
Modeled RESIDE grantbelow the statutory cap$9.8M
ZoningDowntownDC

These figures are a screen, not a feasibility study, and they come from public footprint and height data rather than from plans. See how this was computed and what it cannot tell you, or open this building in the interactive survey to change the assumptions behind it.