26 N 5th St

26 N 5th St is a 7-story building in Downtown San José with 80% of its floor area within daylight reach of a facade. This screen estimates 85 homes and scores it 74 out of 100 for office-to-residential conversion suitability.

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

26 N 5th St — 80% of each floor sits within daylight reach of a facade. The hatched area is windowless core: 3,341 sq ft per floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. Deepest interior point: 57 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 3,341 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 20,044 sq ft of cost carrying no revenue.

Modeled conversion metrics for 26 N 5th St, 2026-09-12.
Suitability scoreStrong candidate	74 / 100
Storiesfrom 87 ft LiDAR height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	7
Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint	16,659 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	80%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	57 ft
Windowless coreper floor — renovated but never rentable	3,341 sq ft
Estimated homesat 750 sq ft average	85
Conversion cost$405/sq ft all-in on 99,954 sq ft	$40.5M
Gap before grantshortfall against completed value	$4.4M
Modeled RESIDE grantbelow the statutory cap	$5.1M
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.