152 N 3rd St

152 N 3rd St is a 13-story building in Downtown San José with 85% of its floor area within daylight reach of a facade. This screen estimates 319 homes and scores it 86 out of 100 for office-to-residential conversion suitability.

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

152 N 3rd St85% of each floor sits within daylight reach of a facade. The hatched area is windowless core: 4,311 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 4,311 sq ft of windowless core — area that must be gutted, seismically braced and sprinklered but can never be rented as an apartment. Across 12 residential floors that is 51,737 sq ft of cost carrying no revenue.

Modeled conversion metrics for 152 N 3rd St, 2026-09-12.
Suitability scoreStrong candidate86 / 100
Storiesfrom 152 ft LiDAR height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor13
Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint29,255 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade85%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft55 ft
Windowless coreper floor — renovated but never rentable4,311 sq ft
Estimated homesat 750 sq ft average319
Conversion cost$405/sq ft all-in on 351,056 sq ft$142.2M
Gap before grantshortfall against completed value$6.6M
Modeled RESIDE grantat the statutory per-award cap$10.0M
ZoningNaglee ParkDC

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.