OK Apartment: Good facilities but overpriced for what you get

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

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!

A bit pricy, but good apartment. The building is only a couple of years old and management is stellar. Lots of Penn students and young professionals. Can't beat the location.

Great door staff, amenities, and apartments. We got exactly what we paid for.

Great apartment with excellent staff. Apartments are very solid, and the amenities area is outstanding. Maintenance requests get resolved asap. Only issue is if you have an apartment facing 17th street, it can get very loud on Thursday - Saturday night from 1-3 am.

Only other gripe I have with the units is that there is very limited kitchen storage and counter space.

This building is in a great location. It's right in the middle of the Rittenhouse Square area, and is a ~10 minute walk to Trader Joe's. The building is only a few years old, and feels very new. It has a nice common space, and one of the better gyms of the high-rises buildings. Management is also very responsive to any issues you bring up with them. I've never had an issue with receiving packages. My unit overlooks Chestnut St, so it can be a little bit loud at times.