111 W St John St

111 W St John St is a 14-story building in Downtown San José with 92% of its floor area within daylight reach of a facade. This screen estimates 199 homes and scores it 98 out of 100 for office-to-residential conversion suitability.

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

111 W St John St — 92% of each floor sits within daylight reach of a facade. The hatched area is windowless core: 1,190 sq ft per floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. Deepest interior point: 44 ft from the nearest window.

This building's conversion pencils at default assumptions without any subsidy.

Every floor carries 1,190 sq ft of windowless core — area that must be gutted, seismically braced and sprinklered but can never be rented as an apartment. Across 13 residential floors that is 15,465 sq ft of cost carrying no revenue.

Modeled conversion metrics for 111 W St John St, 2026-09-12.
Suitability scoreStrong candidate	98 / 100
Storiesfrom 167 ft LiDAR height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	14
Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint	15,566 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	92%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	44 ft
Windowless coreper floor — renovated but never rentable	1,190 sq ft
Estimated homesat 750 sq ft average	199
Conversion cost$405/sq ft all-in on 202,353 sq ft	$82.0M
Gap before grantpencils unsubsidized	-$2.6M
Modeled RESIDE grantat the statutory per-award cap	$10.0M
ZoningDowntown	DC

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.