350 Barack Obama Blvd

350 Barack Obama Blvd is a 8-story apartment building in Downtown San Jose. Its floor plate has 65% of its area within daylight reach of a facade and scores 51 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

Where 350 Barack Obama Blvd 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
350 Barack Obama Blvd

350 Barack Obama Blvd 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. 350 Barack Obama Blvd 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: 65% 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: 10,762 sq ft per floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. The dimension marks the deepest interior point, 76 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: 10,762 sq ft on the floor the screen scores, and 75,332 sq ft over 7 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 127 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 10,762 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 75,332 sq ft of cost carrying no revenue.

Modeled conversion metrics for 350 Barack Obama Blvd, 2026-09-12.

Suitability scoreWorth a feasibility study	51 / 100
Storiesfrom 94 ft LiDAR height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	8
Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint	31,055 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	65%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	76 ft
Windowless coreper floor — renovated but never rentable	10,762 sq ft
BuiltSan Jose does not publish a construction year with this data	—
ZoningDowntown San Jose	A(PD)
Opportunity Zonecensus tract 06085500800, 2018 designation	Yes

The plan: window line, shape and floor rhythm

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

The typical floor has 755 ft of exterior wall, and across 7 residential floors the building carries 5,283 ft of it in total, divided among the 151 homes this screen estimates.

Its plate is moderately compact at 0.69: 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 21.6 homes per floor, repeated on every residential floor, since this building's outline does not change as it rises.

Why 350 Barack Obama Blvd scores 51 out of 100

Daylight efficiency 51, Interior depth 11, Scale 100, Finance 72 — each out of 100, then weighted.

Score components for 350 Barack Obama Blvd. Points are the subscore times its weight.

Component	Subscore	Weight	Points
Daylight efficiency65% of the floor area within 35 ft of a facade, scored from 40% up to 90%	51	45%	22.8
Interior depthdeepest interior point 76 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft	11	25%	2.7
Scale151 estimated homes, scored from 0 up to 150	100	15%	15.0
Financeremaining gap is 17% of conversion cost, scored from 60% down to 0%	72	15%	10.8

Most of what it earns comes from daylight efficiency, and what holds it back most is interior depth, at 11 out of 100: deepest interior point 76 ft from a facade, scored from 80 ft down to 40 ft.

Other buildings screened near 350 Barack Obama Blvd

The 4 closest the screen also covers, from 1,420 ft away. They are the colored outlines on the plan at the top of this page.

427 Auzerais Ave
5 stories · 86% daylit · 103 estimated homes · scores 79/100 (Strong candidate)
about 1,420 ft away
300 Park Ave
19 stories · 60% daylit · 1,117 estimated homes · scores 35/100 (Marginal)
about 2,260 ft away
303 Almaden Blvd
13 stories · 59% daylit · 292 estimated homes · scores 35/100 (Marginal)
about 2,800 ft away
151 Almaden Blvd
22 stories · 39% daylit · 1,521 estimated homes · scores 16/100 (Unlikely)
about 2,870 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.