99 Almaden Blvd

99 Almaden Blvd is a 13-story building in Downtown San José with 98% of its floor area within daylight reach of a facade. This screen estimates 156 homes and scores it 100 out of 100 for office-to-residential conversion suitability.

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

99 Almaden Blvd — 98% of each floor sits within daylight reach of a facade. The hatched area is windowless core: 308 sq ft per floor that must be renovated but can never be rented as an apartment. Deepest interior point: 37 ft from the nearest window.

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

Every floor carries 308 sq ft of windowless core — area that must be gutted, seismically braced and sprinklered but can never be rented as an apartment. Across 12 residential floors that is 3,700 sq ft of cost carrying no revenue.

Modeled conversion metrics for 99 Almaden Blvd, 2026-09-12.
Suitability scoreStrong candidate	100 / 100
Storiesfrom 153 ft LiDAR height ÷ 12 ft floor-to-floor	13
Floor plateper floor, from the city footprint	12,569 sq ft
Daylight efficiencyshare within 35 ft of a facade	98%
Deepest interior pointviability threshold is 80 ft	37 ft
Windowless coreper floor — renovated but never rentable	308 sq ft
Estimated homesat 750 sq ft average	156
Conversion cost$405/sq ft all-in on 150,825 sq ft	$61.1M
Gap before grantpencils unsubsidized	-$5.2M
Modeled RESIDE grantbelow the statutory cap	$9.4M
ZoningDowntown	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.