{"id":405491,"date":"2026-07-20T17:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405491\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:57:27","slug":"prominent-san-jose-office-building-flops-into-default-over-failed-loan-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/405491\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent San Jose office building flops into default over failed loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A nine-story office building at 152 N. 3rd St. in downtown San Jose.(George Avalos\/Bay Area News Group)\" width=\"1600\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784570247_638_SJM-L-DTSJOFFICE-0627-01.jpg\" \/>Nine-story office building at 152 North Third Street in downtown San Jose, seen in 2018.\u00a0(George Avalos\/Bay Area News Group)<\/p>\n<p>SAN JOSE \u2014 A downtown San Jose property linked to the co-founder of WeWork and once part of a plan to convert the office building to housing tumbled into default due to a failed loan, documents show.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-story building at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2023\/08\/07\/san-jose-office-downtown-real-estate-build-wework-loan-default-economy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">152 North Third St. and next to St. James Park<\/a> defaulted on a $45 million loan that was issued in 2021, documents filed on July 15 at the Santa Clara County Recorder\u2019s Office show.<\/p>\n<p>The building is owned by a group controlled by Nazare Capital Management, whose principal executive and founder is Adam Neumann, co-founder of WeWork. The site totals 130,700 square feet, a property brochure states.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the default, the Neumann-linked group owed $37.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The group paid $44 million to buy the building in 2018, county documents show. The office hub is mostly empty, except for Freshly Baked Eatery, a sandwich shop on the ground floor.<\/p>\n<p>It was never clear what Neumann\u2019s group intended to accomplish with its ownership of the building.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, plans were floated to convert the building\u2019s office spaces into residential units. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/01\/16\/san-jose-home-house-office-real-estate-build-property-develop-economy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preliminary proposal envisioned 133 apartments<\/a>, with residences on every floor of the structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine-story office building at 152 North Third Street in downtown San Jose, seen in 2018.\u00a0(George Avalos\/Bay Area News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,387,7,3010,4978,181,100,182,88,90,89,198,200],"class_list":["post-405491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-business","tag-california","tag-commercial-real-estate","tag-downtown-san-jose","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-pm-report","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}