199 Bassett St

199 Bassett St is a 6-story apartment building in Downtown San Jose. Its floor plate has 42% of its area within daylight reach of a facade and scores 20 out of 100 on this screen’s measures, which is part of why it works as housing.

CA-18 · Screened 2026-09-12 · Already housing

No address point in San Jose’s records falls inside this footprint, so it is named by the closest one that no other screened building claims — usually a site entrance, but check the outline on the plan below before relying on the street number.

Where 199 Bassett St is

Its block in Downtown San Jose, drawn from San Jose's own building outlines and street centerlines.

Suitability score

0–29

30–49

50–69

70–100

Already housing
Not screened
199 Bassett St

199 Bassett St and the 1,000 ft of Downtown San Jose around it. The streets are drawn at the width of the right-of-way they run down, sidewalks included, and named, and every building on these blocks is drawn. What is left open and stippled is neither: a surface lot, a plaza or a vacant parcel. The screened buildings are colored by the ramp above, the same one the district map uses, carry their score, and each is a link to its own page. Each casts a shadow as long as its measured height lets it, so towers stand out from the low buildings around them; the unscreened buildings have no measured height and cast none. 199 Bassett St is outlined in its own score color at the outline it covers at ground level. Its windowless core is hatched. The inset places it among every building the screen covers.

Floor plan: 42% of each floor sits within daylight reach of a facade. The shading is daylight, darkest at the windows and gone 35 ft in. The hatched area is windowless core: 55,062 sq ft per floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. The dimension marks the deepest interior point, 122 ft from the nearest window. A–A is where the section beside it is cut.

Section A–A: cut across the depth of the plate, through the middle of the core. Daylight reaches 35 ft in from every facade, fading as it goes, and the hatched stripe left between the lit edges is floor that gets converted and can never be rented: 55,062 sq ft on the floor the screen scores, and 275,312 sq ft over 5 residential floors. The shaded ground floor is converted like the rest and counted as no homes.

This is already an apartment building: San Jose's rental housing and condominium records list 403 apartments here. It is on the map because downtown zoning permits offices and homes alike, but this site does not count it as a conversion candidate.

Every floor carries 55,062 sq ft of windowless core — area that must be gutted, seismically braced and sprinklered but can never be rented as an apartment. Across 5 residential floors that is 275,312 sq ft of cost carrying no revenue.

Read with caution. This footprint carries 6 street addresses across 94,965 sq ft, which usually means the city’s GIS has merged a block or complex into a single polygon rather than describing one convertible building.

Modeled conversion metrics for 199 Bassett St, 2026-09-12.

Suitability scoreUnlikely	20 / 100
Storiesfrom 72 ft LiDAR height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	6
Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint	94,965 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	42%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	122 ft
Windowless coreper floor — renovated but never rentable	55,062 sq ft
BuiltSan Jose does not publish a construction year with this data	—
ZoningDowntown San Jose	DC
Opportunity Zonenot in a 2018 designated tract	No

The plan: window line, shape and floor rhythm

31 ft of exterior wall for each home the screen estimates — enough for two- and three-bedroom homes across the plan.

The typical floor has 1,323 ft of exterior wall, and across 5 residential floors the building carries 6,613 ft of it in total, divided among the 212 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is moderately compact at 0.68: a squarish plan, with enough perimeter for a conventional double-loaded corridor. How window line and plate shape are measured.

At the model’s 750 sq ft average, the plan works out at about 42.4 homes per floor, repeated on every residential floor, since this building's outline does not change as it rises.

Why 199 Bassett St scores 20 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 4, Interior depth 0, Scale 100, Finance 20 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 199 Bassett St. Points are the subscore times its weight.

Component	Subscore	Weight	Points
Daylight efficiency42% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%	4	45%	1.8
Interior depthdeepest interior point 122 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft	0	25%	0.0
Scale212 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150	100	15%	15.0
Financeremaining gap is 48% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%	20	15%	3.0

Most of what it earns comes from scale, and what holds it back most is interior depth, at 0 out of 100: deepest interior point 122 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft.

Other buildings screened near 199 Bassett St

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 420 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

201 Bassett St
6 stories · 78% daylit · 104 estimated homes · scores 76/100 (Strong candidate)
about 420 ft away
255 W Julian St
8 stories · 92% daylit · 79 estimated homes · scores 92/100 (Strong candidate)
about 710 ft away
45 Devine St
6 stories · 52% daylit · already a condominium building
about 840 ft away
373 W Julian St
7 stories · 69% daylit · 142 estimated homes · scores 62/100 (Worth a feasibility study)
about 880 ft away

A screen, not a feasibility study, from outlines and heights rather than plans: the method and how to correct a figure. If you know this building’s interior, you know what this model cannot see.