16 N 3rd St

16 N 3rd St is a 9-story building in Downtown San José with 100% of its floor area within daylight reach of a facade. This screen estimates 125 homes and scores it 98 out of 100 for office-to-residential conversion suitability.

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

16 N 3rd St100% of each floor sits within daylight reach of a facade, with no dead core at all.

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

This footprint has no windowless core at all: every point on the floor plate is within 35 ft of a facade, which is unusual and is the main reason it scores as well as it does.

Modeled conversion metrics for 16 N 3rd St, 2026-09-12.
Suitability scoreStrong candidate98 / 100
Storiesfrom 113 ft LiDAR height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor9
Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint14,706 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade100%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft34 ft
Windowless coreper floor — renovated but never rentable0 sq ft
Estimated homesat 750 sq ft average125
Conversion cost$405/sq ft all-in on 117,646 sq ft$47.6M
Gap before grantpencils unsubsidized-$5.5M
Modeled RESIDE grantbelow the statutory cap$7.5M
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.