This is a large apartment building with all the good and bad things that come with that. The best part of living in a big building is the front desk, which means you never miss a package and you feel safe in the city with a security guard there at all hours. We have never had a problem with mice or bugs, despite declining the offer of poison traps (we have cats). The laundry and trash chute on every floor is very convenient.

We have lived in 2 apartments in this building. The first apartment we moved into just to get into the building, and it wasn't great. Despite its small & awkward layout, it did have large closets, though a light socket wasn't provided in either. The apartments facing the parking lot are very dark, and while they're almost supernaturally insulated from traffic noise, you can hear voices and barking dogs echo around the u-shaped back of the building. The out-facing (even-numbered) apartments are bright and sunny, but you have to expect more traffic noise and the associated grime on the windows.

While we were in the first apartment, a water catastrophe happened on some floor above us, and largely melted our wall, ruining lots of our belongings and depositing mounds of wet plaster in our bedroom and bathroom. The management company was pretty leisurely about fixing this, and didn't offer to help us clean up or to give us any rent discount after they had found and fixed the water leak. We're watching peeling paint on our current living room ceiling with some concern.

Overall, this place is a strange mix of top-of-the-line and cheapo. There are marble panels in the bathroom but they're cemented haphazardly to the walls, cheap blinds and cupboards, with gorgeous floors, and the apartments, though freshly painted, have paint splotches all over the floors and fixtures.

Our current apartment has to be one of the nicest non-luxury 1-bedrooms in the city, but it is priced several hundred dollars above the average. All the apartments include utilities, but it may not be a great value when most places have h/hw anyway. We're currently looking for a cheaper, more spacious place, but I wouldn't discourage anyone from looking here. Rents may be more reasonable now or there may be incentives. The pet-friendly status is also fairly unique in the city.

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