156 E St John St

156 E St John St is a 7-story building in Downtown San José with 83% of its floor area within daylight reach of a facade. This screen estimates 147 homes and scores it 76 out of 100 for office-to-residential conversion suitability.

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

156 E St John St — 83% of each floor sits within daylight reach of a facade. The hatched area is windowless core: 4,606 sq ft per floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. Deepest interior point: 68 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 4,606 sq ft of windowless core — area that must be gutted, seismically braced and sprinklered but can never be rented as an apartment. Across 6 residential floors that is 27,634 sq ft of cost carrying no revenue.

Modeled conversion metrics for 156 E St John St, 2026-09-12.
Suitability scoreStrong candidate	76 / 100
Storiesfrom 82 ft LiDAR height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	7
Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint	27,664 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	83%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	68 ft
Windowless coreper floor — renovated but never rentable	4,606 sq ft
Estimated homesat 750 sq ft average	147
Conversion cost$405/sq ft all-in on 165,986 sq ft	$67.2M
Gap before grantshortfall against completed value	$4.7M
Modeled RESIDE grantbelow the statutory cap	$8.8M
ZoningNaglee Park	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.