150 Almaden Blvd

150 Almaden Blvd is a 19-story building in Downtown San José with 83% of its floor area within daylight reach of a facade. This screen estimates 228 homes and scores it 81 out of 100 for office-to-residential conversion suitability.

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

150 Almaden Blvd — 83% of each floor sits within daylight reach of a facade. The hatched area is windowless core: 2,520 sq ft per floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. Deepest interior point: 60 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 2,520 sq ft of windowless core — area that must be gutted, seismically braced and sprinklered but can never be rented as an apartment. Across 18 residential floors that is 45,368 sq ft of cost carrying no revenue.

Modeled conversion metrics for 150 Almaden Blvd, 2026-09-12.
Suitability scoreStrong candidate	81 / 100
Storiesfrom 227 ft LiDAR height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	19
Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint	14,426 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	83%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	60 ft
Windowless coreper floor — renovated but never rentable	2,520 sq ft
Estimated homesat 750 sq ft average	228
Conversion cost$405/sq ft all-in on 259,668 sq ft	$105.2M
Gap before grantshortfall against completed value	$8.3M
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.