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Lofts at Perkins Park


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cheese9988

Resident 2012 - 2015

12/1/2015

I've lived at Perkins Park for over three years. The first two years were in the main Hoisery building, the latter 1.5 years were in the new townhouse style buildings on the same street. Due to work transfer, we left early. I believe the experience between the two buildings to be much different, which I'll explain. First off, the style of the main building is excellent. Although greatly modernized, many of the original factory artifacts remain. The ceilings are probably fifteen feet tall, the walls have very large open windows. The walls are bright, the space is open, with average (but matching) appliances to compliment. You get the sense of openess, no clutter space. The building itself is also very open. Even during a rainy day, you get out and stretch without getting wet. The main building apartments are fairly quiet, but there is some noise coming from above and below. The ceilings are essentially bare wood, so you can see why. The walls are two feet of solid brick. With the windows shut, you're lucky to hear a firetruck outside. With the windows open though, there's a bit more noise, to which I'll explain later. With a few exceptions, the apartments seem well built. You get a "solid" feel to them. The townhouse apartments are a different animal. These were built brand new. We stayed in a dual level style. These are a modern style apartment, granite countertops, imitation wood floors and matching appliances. Upstairs the ceiling are high, but not as much as the main building. These apartments also offer a nice patio space off of the back. The townhouse apartments fall short though. The most obvious problem is the noise. The building lacks sound insulation, so hearing the neighbors in all four directions is not difficult; to the point that we could listen to other conversations. Then there is the outside noise, which again, I'll go into detail later. The apartments are also put together cheaply, with a number finishing touches that were missed. To name a few: the front door wouldn't shut unless pushed, the doorbell doesn't work, the woodwork around the entrance door curls up, the spicket out back isn't attached correctly, the downstairs carpet separated the first week. Before we moved in the builders marked a number of areas that needed correction with tape, missing paint mostly. The materials also feel cheap. The floors are a cheap imitation wood, and scratch very easily. I've lived in many places with quality oak flooring, I've never seen floors scratch like the ones in this apartment. The drawers in the fridge and dishwasher do not operate properly. The kitchen sink won't drain without having the garbade disposal running. The space in the townhouses are not laid out well either. The downstairs has a large open room in the center. It'd probably make a good play room for kids. But with the number of doors and closets, it'd be tough to make a family room or put furniture in there. We were also shown two closets in that room. One housed the furnace, the other had a waterpipe. The waterpipe ended up being the sprinkler system stack. Unknown until after we moved, we were locked out of some of that closet space as a result. For the general property between both buildings, the outside area is landscaped nicely. There are open park style areas, with the scenic riverwalk in the background and Lowell's canal system integrated into the area. Downtown is about a five minue walk. Allowing pets is a great selling point for them, and was initially the main reason I went with Perkins. There are many dogs, and is obviously a pet community. The biggest issue that I had while living at Perkins Park were the outside buildings near the complex. Directly across the street, there is a baseball field and a college dorm. Very close by in the other direction there is a hockey arena. The baseball field goes non stop from mid spring to mid fall. The proximity makes the anouncer seem a bleacher away, and you can hear every announcement clear as day. There are only so many times that I can listen to Bon Jovi without going mad. To a lesser extent, the dorm and hockey arena also add noise. These three buildings also add a substantial amount of pedestrian and car traffic. Going the wrong direction on a night with a game, can mean adding 1/2 hour to your commute. The facility has a great number of rules and fees. They have no problem with explaining, or charging you for these either. The base rate on the website is one price. But if you want more storage, have a second car, pets, want to move apartment, you name it; they'll charge you for it. Although some of this may sound negative, the main building was not that bad. The thick walls really blocked out the noise, so long as you don't feel the need to open the windows (I like AC). The atmosphere, and allowing pets are really a very nice plus for this building. For the townhomes, I wouldn't recommend these at all. The noise and the cheap feel are not what I would expect given the amount we paid for the home. So overall, I'd move back into the main building...so long as I don't find another mill complex that allows dogs. *Rent listed below includes rent and all fees from the townhouse.

    Review 6 out of 40

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