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| - I currently live here on a short term corporate lease. Thank goodness it is both short and I am not paying for it. This will be an okay building once it is done, but for now, know that you are moving into a construction zone. We were not informed when we signed our short term lease that the building is only cleared for occupation on a few of the lower floors, and you will hear/experience drilling, hammering, unusable elevators, closed features (ex, pool), restricted parking, construction workers walking around all over the place, etc. Just a few days ago, I woke up at 7:00 a.m. to a man on a crane literally outside my window - I could have reached out and given him a high five. And the beeping/hammering/drilling that he was doing (again, at 7:00 a.m.) was just a fun bonus.
I give the building two stars because the view is great from the Reardon Park side and the location is pretty good. However, there is one big deal breaker if you are concerned about safety: The architect designed a serious design flaw when he or she decided to put the fire staircase inside the hallway of each floor. Why does this matter? Because it means there must be UNRESTRICTED access from the parking garage into your hallway so that people can get to the staircase in the case of a fire. There is a door only 30 feet from the restricted access doors on each level where you can just walk right into the residents' hallway. This means that the dog and pony show of using your key fob and having restricted acces is pointless. Just walk right in using the door a few feet to your left! As a woman alone in this apartment, it is absolutely not okay that this situation exists. Anybody who can get into the garage (following a car through the gate, a guest of another unit, construction workers, etc) can now get to my door. Just super.
Bottom line: Ask a lot of questions about how and when the construction will be completed. It will not be soon. Secondly, get a big scary dog for protection (after paying the $300 "nonrefundable deposit", of course.)
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