1900 Arch Apartments

'resolved' Upon calling the night hotline they informed me they weren't aware of any alarms.

to live here - it is not worth it. The property's management company (PMC) has the most negative reviews of any property manager in the city, and for good reason.

bad that I cannot give more than one star to 1900). Nothing works in this building. Complaints or suggestions for improvements are completely ignored. Managment doesn't take responsibility for anything; among several episodes, a package of mine of $600 disappeared they did not take any responsibility for that (they know and told me that they shipped it back to the seller because the package was there for too long (but still within the limit day they wrote me); package could not be tracked because UPS/Fedex have no register from the pick up. Unbelievable!

few of the negative ones were from many months ago, and the building has gotten much better and really is a great place to live. Close to restaurants in center city, Logan Square and Rittenhouse, but tucked away enough that there's not a lot of heavy traffic or city noise. Big windows let in lots of light and we even have our own elevator and mail room for the phase II section! I highly recommend this place because it's a great building, has a lot of amenities, lots of parking and close to everything!

located in center city, and apartment layouts work well with washer/dryer. But for the rent you are paying you can find the same and more - in more secure buildings in center city. Do your homework and shop around!

appliances, the paint on the walls just wipes off when you try to clean it, door frames aren't event attached to the walls, all the nail holes on the trim are visible and in one area of the apartment, they didn't even cut an angle in the baseboard when it joined at the corner so they fit. I made this entire list to management when I moved in....never addressed it. The walls in between the units are not sound proofed AT ALL. You can hear EVERYTHING going on in the unit next to yours and the bedrooms share a wall. I could actually hear the clicking of a video game controller. A few months after I moved in a leak from the ceiling began to come down the wall in my bathroom. It took a week for it to be acknowledged & they didn't come until a week later when I finally sent them the pictures of mold growing. They cut a giant hole in the ceiling stopped the leak & didn't finish closing the hole, re-dry walling, plastering and painting it for several more weeks. 40 days total to fix & it only finally got done because I withheld rent until they finished it. As for the community - it's a giant frat house. Many residents (or their guests) pulled the fire alarm & rigged it so they couldn't shut off at 3am on a weekday, leave their trash & bottles all over the building when they party, have been so loud & obnoxious that the nice rooftop terrace you see in the photos now has to close at 9pm everyday (before most 8 year olds go to bed) because neighboring buildings were complaining. You can no longer bring your dog up to the roof either because residents were letting their dogs go to the bathroom & not cleaning up. I could keep going & wish I was able to post the pictures of all of this. Do yourself a favor, Google PMC Property Group & look up reviews of all their buildings, you'll save yourself some grief and money. And don't be fooled by the initial aesthetics - it goes downhill quickly, I mean from right when when you walk in, the lobby doesn't even have air condition.

it has already been used for five years. The gym is almost never cleaned - there is dust on every single equipment as well as the floor. Even worse, the HVAC system in the gym doesn't work so it's basically a sauna. This has been brought to management's attention by several residents and no one received an answer. The unit maintenance requests are answered after weeks, if they are answered at all. There are NO cameras in the building at all and the couple that were installed recently are not monitored. The concierge is rarely at his/her desk. I have actually seen one of the concierge employees on duty working out at the gym at 11 PM with a "Concierge will be back shortly" sign on his desk. And since the door is always unlocked, anyone can pretty much walk in and out of the building as they please whether they are residents or not. Additionally, the front courtyard is usually occupied by homeless people at night and the management has chosen to blind side this problem. If you go to the management with any complaints or suggestions for improvements, they completely ignore it. PMCProperty Group has really dropped the ball on this one. Living here is NOT worth your money at all. This is my sixth apartment in Philadelphia, and even the management at my college apartment was better than this!

will open the front door for you or hit the elevator button to go up. The facilities at 1900 Arch are also phenomenal. The gym is always clean and organized and the front lobby is spotless. The cleaning staff is always on top of keeping the public spaces clean and mopped. That counts for a lot for me because it shows they have a great attention to detail. Overall, this is a great place and I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a place.