225 E Santa Clara St (north)
225 E Santa Clara St (north) is a 8-story building in Downtown San José with 98% of its floor area within daylight reach of a facade. This screen estimates 158 homes and scores it 99 out of 100 for office-to-residential conversion suitability.
CA-16 · Screened 2026-09-12 · Strong candidate
This building's conversion pencils at default assumptions without any subsidy.
Every floor carries 423 sq ft of windowless core — area that must be gutted, seismically braced and sprinklered but can never be rented as an apartment. Across 7 residential floors that is 2,962 sq ft of cost carrying no revenue.
| Suitability scoreStrong candidate | 99 / 100 |
|---|---|
| Storiesfrom 97 ft LiDAR height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor | 8 |
| Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint | 21,672 sq ft |
| Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade | 98% |
| Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft | 41 ft |
| Windowless coreper floor — renovated but never rentable | 423 sq ft |
| Estimated homesat 750 sq ft average | 158 |
| Conversion cost$405/sq ft all-in on 151,701 sq ft | $61.4M |
| Gap before grantpencils unsubsidized | -$5.7M |
| Modeled RESIDE grantbelow the statutory cap | $9.5M |
| 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.