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sxswnxnw t1_j9wb6sf wrote

500 has a pool, that is shared between the two buildings apparently. I lived in 520. It was fine. Started with some package fuckery that slightly improved. I would say stay on top of tracking your packages and retrieve them ASAP.

I never felt unsafe living there: who told you that? That building is basically locked down. The only cuckoo thing I observed was one morning a clearly not homeless man was asleep in the vestibule in the front of the building. Probably drunk, and he was gone before 8am.

The biggest safety issue I heard of was people piggybacking on residents into the bulidng to sell stuff. Someone posted on here that someone tried to get in their apartment once (or something to that effect). The main office sends emails if stuff goes down, but they rarely offered details, so it's entirely possible some stuff popped of that I wasn't aware of.

Never had any pest problems in my apartment. When I was moving out, I saw a dead mouse/ mouse skeleton in the loading dock. I was not super surprised by this since this is where the trash all ends up. I will say for comparison purposes that I saw live mice all the time in the loading dock in my old Columbia apartment, one of those fancy buildings by the mall? Never had mice in my apartment there though, either.

Maintenance was fine. Not the best I have had, but fine.

It was a kinda nice little bubble, and a convenient location.

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DaleDuzit OP t1_j9wbxww wrote

thank you so much - this is super helpful! Did 520 have a better more equipped gym than 500? Do you know how crowded it gets in their gyms?

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sxswnxnw t1_j9wfqvc wrote

I never went to 500, so I cannot speak on their gym. I just recall the pool being open to us in 520. I could see the pool from various upper floors in 520, and it looked nice. Resort vibes.

The gym in 520 is very basic and small imo. I sadly never used it for fear of covid cooties, but they did have my favorite old school elliptical. It seemed to get plenty of use, but I never was back there enough to know how crowded it was. I had my own bike for spinning in my apartment and walked and ran the neighborhood. Occasionally rode my bike outside, too.

The nicest gym I have experienced was at 300 Saint Paul, that PMC building. I hate PMC, and I hate that they put the gym nearly at the top of the building and no elevator access, but that gym was amazing. They had like 6 Peloton bikes before Peloton took off during covid, many treadmills, an entire functional fitness area with ropes, traditional strength training stuff, so many free weights, a squat rack... It was great. And all free to residents.

Another building that had a nice gym was 225 N Calvert. It wasn't too large or too small, and it had many more stationary bikes for spinning (including 2 or 3 Peloton bikes), a few studio rooms, many treadmills, squat rack, many free weights, ellipticals, couple rowers, etc.. Free for tenants of course.

There is an Under Armor gym downtown in an old bank I think, but it is a bit of a walk from 520 Park. Closer to 300 Saint Paul. But obviously you have to pay extra/join for that.

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