Does anyone live there? I have some questions since their website sucks.


What is the rate for a Studio, 1 Bed, 2 Bed?

Is there any off street parking?

Anything else I should know about this place?... I live out in Ardmore right now with 4 other guys in a house and the rent is cheap. But I'd love to move into the city.

This location looks great and is a short walk to my job, doctor, and other needs.

Thanks.

That building was just recently built.

We were trying to find out about those apartments when we were looking last spring. I think people started moving in there around May07, judging by the lights in the windows at night.

They have a rental "office" just across the street. As far as I know, it's always been empty; no signs or anything except the awning. We called their phone number and left a message. No one called back. We called again a few days later, it said "voice mailbox full".

In the meantime, people were moving in, and now it looks like it's all full, again just judging by the lights in the windows.

Good luck.

Don't know much about it except it looks like Tetris

My roommate and I share a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom apartment, with balcony- square footage of the inside is about 650, and the outside is about 225. There are no closets in the entire apartment, instead the bedrooms come with one Ikea wardrobe each bolted into the walls (so it can't be moved either).
Our current rent is about 1500 a month each year the lease states they will charge a 5% increase.
I hear that the studio apartments go for more than 900 a month, and the one bedrooms are somewhere in between.

What used to be the leasing office on the other corner is now sitting there until they build their next set of apartments (18 units, 3 floors and some commercial spots). Construction should start this summer, and will be amazingly noisy and annoying.
There are no included parking spots, the corner of the street and across the street are lined with meters- but half of those are blocked by the buildings own trash dumpster for the ongoing construction.
The closest garage is at the Fresh Grocer (2 blocks)- yearly fee of about $1600 from Penn.

The management in this building is horrible- when we moved in one and a half years ago, they gave out directories and stated that the office hours of the staff in the building were 5 days a week, between 8:30 and 4:30. It should really read... Maybe 1 day a week... if you're lucky- and they are only there during the middle of the day when everyone is either at work or school.

We've had so many problems with construction noise- and the restaurant they are building downstairs. For about 2-3 months they were jackhammering at the concrete floors below us and the entire apartment shakes. Most days it would go from 7AM till after 10PM, we called the police regarding this and they said the construction didn't have to follow city noise laws because this is a private building. Recently it's gotten better, but we still get buzz saws and hammering on the concrete anytime between 8AM and 10PM.

Floors and ceilings are concrete, they said they were going for the industrial look, but the way that they did it is pretty shoddy. All of the floors are uneven, with giant dips and big scratch/polish marks. The ceiling looks like concrete that was set over plywood, and it picked up all the marker writing and stains. Bathrooms are not ventilated (according to management there are silent vents, no fans = no movement) so mold will grow unless you shower with the door open.

Windows and doors aren't sealed correctly so our utility bills come out way too high. averaging out to 225 for water/heat/aircon/electricity.
When it rains really really hard- sometimes the water leaks in between the walls, and bubbles form under the paint, this has happened to us 3 times in the last year, and each time they just come in remove the bubbles and paint it over. The real problem was that they built this building so quickly and cut too many corners.
You can't really keep the windows open at night time because there is a constant stream of trucks/vagrants/police and firefighters driving by at night time. Lots of the west philadelphia residents are up late and yelling at each other in the middle of the street.

When it comes to internet/TV/telephone were only allowed to use Phillynet aka campus technologies, the connection resets itself every week, and you have to constantly log in after being dropped. TV is dish network through Phillynet and it sucks because slight rain/wind will cut out the service, and you aren't allowed to choose anything else. Our monthly bill comes out about $120 for those services.

Overall, its not a very good place to live, I wouldn't recommend it when there are nicer places in center city.
The rent is way to high, for such a small place, without any storage. We are not continuing our lease.

Wow, the Hub sounds like a dump.

Speaking as someone who works nearby and spends a lot of time on the 40th St corridor between Market and Spruce, I would not live anywhere on it. Closer to Market St and the El, it's trashy, loud, and at times (early in the morning/late at night) sketchy. Closer to Spruce/Pine it's noisy because it's undergrad party land with frat houses and Copabanana nearby. Check out places a bit further south and west for a quieter neighborhood. Good luck!

It's hard to believe they rent apartments with no closets. Could it be they put in the IKEA wardrobes in case they want to convert the building into an office building quickly and inexpensively?

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Cjf is a flat out liar or just one very disgruntled guy. I worked on this entire project and there was never any noise after 3:30 pm for one, It's impossible for a poured concrete building to shake from jack hammering below, the floors can not be uneven because it was poured with self leveling concrete and finished to a extra smooth finish, the bathrooms are vented I put the wiring in myself to the fans on the roof that exhaust the duct raisers attached to every bathroom, windows came as a window and frame packages and triple sealed from the factory and then glazed from the out side, the building was not done to quickly it took over a year and a half to complete and believe me there were no short cuts taken. You my friend are clueless and a great fabricator of the truth

Wow, its one thing to be proud of your work when its good, but when its not, I don't know what it should be called.
I'm not sure who you were working with, but the construction has definitely gone past 9 PM for the restaurant downstairs on many occasions, we even have police records to prove it. Just head over to the headquarters down the block and ask the officers.
The floors are definitely not level, my chair is beginning to roll across the room as we speak. Maybe I should take a video of it for proof?
Regarding the bathrooms, I really hope you are right and that the bathrooms are vented, otherwise a big mold problem will arise soon enough. I've asked a couple of other residents and they all have the same problem, even the apartment manager has told us that she didn't understand how it was a silent fan.

The original plans for the unit kitchens were to include islands, check the hub's website- and click on leasing -> floorplans and basically any of the bigger 2 bedroom units. When we moved in, I asked management how come there weren't islands in the kitchens, and their reply was that they didn't have enough time, and ended up not putting them in... If thats not a shortcut, then I don't know what is.

Here are a couple of pictures that I took tonight...
The first is one of the re occurring bubbles of water that pop out from where wall meets the window. They were a lot worse during the last rainy season, where the water basically flooded in, and ran all the way around to another room. The entire wall had to be repainted. (It probably should have been removed and replaced, drywall + water = bad situation) If this building were condominiums, this would not sit well with residents at all.
The second is the cracks/seal on around the windows in all of the bedrooms. On many windy nights, you can hear air coming through, and on cold or hot days the air conditioner/heater has to work extra hard.

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@thetowndrunk, I don't know what job you were on- but it certainly doesn't seem to match up with the result we are living in... Hopefully for the sake of others, the next set of apartments across the street might be better.

Please take that picture with the outside showing so I know what side of the building your on

Your request is a little strange, we face west, and it really doesn't make a difference which side we're on because the problems are building-wide.