On March 15 the senior resident of this building will be departing. That does not bode well for present and future residents. By petitions and other means, he was the only one who stood up to this horrible management and at least kept this place livable for us. When they ran the heat last September when it was 90 degrees out, he went to the alderman's office and complained. That same day the air conditioning was turned back on.
The management is now making him pay the price. They're showing the world the price you pay when you try to stand up to them. When he got black mold in his apartment due to shoddy contracting work on his balcony they refused to fix it. The stuff was literally killing him, so he fixed it himself assuming he'd be reimbursed. He wasn't aware at the time this was all a master plan by Forest City Enterprises to teach him a lesson. They sat back while that and severe water damage also caused by the management was being repaired. When the work was nearly 100 percent complete the management laughed in his face and said they were stiffing him and evicting him.
They weren't joking. Pending appeal he has to move out in a month after spending about 20k out of his pocket. How did Forest City pull this off' This is Chicago. Pay to play politics is alive and well. It should be mentioned he was nearly arrested by the 16th district at the beck and call of the Pavilion for doing a petition a few months ago. This management is beyond evil.
FOREST CITY ENTERPRISES HAS MADE IT LOUD AND CLEAR THAT YOU PAY THE PRICE IF YOU STAND UP TO THEM.
What does this mean for current and future residents' It means if and when you get mold in your apartment they won't fix it. Let's remember they used the same shoddy contractors for the whole building. If mold got into this man's apartment through his balcony the same will eventually happen to everybody else. If you try to warn other residents, you'll probably get arrested. Did I mention that our senior resident did get arrested back in 2001 for a phony trespassing charge right after doing a petition' He loved the building itself and all the amenities too much. I would have moved out right away. You should too. Or better yet, don't move here in the first place. With our senior resident departing there will be absolutely nothing standing in the way of this horrible management. Nothing standing in the way of the Forest City slumlords who will completely let things go. This whole building will probably get the wrecking ball within two years. Hopefully all the residents will be gone by then.
And, to think as recently as six months ago I almost moved into this place. Whew!

User Responses
From: knightpirate	Date: 02/10/2009
Great post JG! Forest City must be stopped before they ruin more lives. These are far and away the most evil people I've ever had to deal with in person. Unbelievable.
From: servbot	Date: 02/11/2009
seems like every time someone is positive towards the Pavilion, you guys accuse them of being management, as though it's impossible for someone to see things differently. Well I'm not, that's why I made a screenname so my posts are distinguished from the many anonymous ones. You can meet me if you like. email me unconventionalace@comcast.net. hmmm, it deleted my first post now that I put this in. What I said originally was "how can you make this post if you didn't even live here?" to the OP. Epic fail, imo.
From: rollaball19	Date: 02/11/2009
This management is pathetic to pretend like they're regular residents responding. Do you people have any idea how obvious, not to mention foolish you look?
From: Anonymous	Date: 02/11/2009
It seems all the last few reviews are from the same person. They all sound the same. Interesting.....
From: Miamimary	Date: 06/27/2009
I was moving from Miami into Pavilion within next 2 months---mold is against the law and big bucks re-imbursement for tenants in FL. You have a fellow Chicagoan in the White House---call him and write him until this gets corrected and the Management is put out of business. I won't be moving there now but will contact the White House

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