Great location, amenities, doorman, but loud

Great experience!

Love the location, amenities, unit, responsive maintenance and front desk!

The apartment itself is great, very spacious with lots of storage space. We actually have a 1 bedroom + den which is perfect for studying. People in the building and management are very nice. You can't hear any of the other tenants, but there is a lot of street noise. We're on the top floor and still have problems at times.

I love my building for the following reasons: 1. Tons of Wharton students, 2. Good location 3. Great lounge space and gym 4. Incredible security (although sometimes annoying for guests who have to sign in every time - but that’s kinda the point). 5. Modern/new appliances and general apt vibe

Con: street noise even on the top floor. I can block it out in my bedroom since it has no windows, but it gets quite loud in my living room. You get used to it, but not great for studios and/or light sleepers.

OK Apartment: Good facilities but overpriced for what you get

I love my apartment at 1700 Chestnut and the building in general. It's in the renovated Bonwit Teller Department store building and has modern decor in the common space and entryway. The apartments are beautiful with hardwood floors, high ceilings and large windows. The management company is also wonderful and responds to any maintenance requests right away. My only issues are that my apartment faces the street (17th) which has lots of hotels so cabs and users get jammed up and frequently honk and make a ton of noise. Davios across the street is also extremely loud on weekends and sometimes wakes me up when it lets out at night. I also think that the windows aren't all that well insulated so right now my utilities are super high and its cold near the windows.

There's a 24/7 door person and package delivery service through luxer/ the door people. Pearl properties also does nice things every so often like have federal donuts and coffee in the lobby or happy hours at local bars for tenants.

Pros: The building is lovely and new and decorated well. The apartments are spacious, clean, and very new. Amenities include gym and movie room.

Cons: Front desk is very strict on letting people in and other rules. Good for security but taken too far - for example, nobody can leave anything at the front desk for you to pick up. Additionally, extreme rules exist for the common space - only 5 guests allowed before you have to pay a large deposit. At 6 guests, they will force you to leave. The common space can easily fit 50 people and this rule seems extremely unnecessary.

I really love this building. Beautiful, modern apartments with nice amenities. I love having access to a fully stocked gym, and common area to host events.I live on the 4th floor and you can hear a lot of noise coming from the streets, especially on the weekends. It also used to be free to ruse the common area now they charge $75 to reserve it, 25 guests max plus a refundable $150 cleaning fee.

Great place for MBA students!