The Foundry

The good: location is great, walkable to old town, port city brewing, and the metro

The bad: nearly everything else.

The amenities are mostly for show during leading tours, but don’t work once you move in. If you are touring, be on the look out for this in the sports bar, the rooftop patio, and the pool area.

The building often reeks of people smoking, and hallways are littered with dog puke, poop, and pee.

Pool is filthy, and appears to be rarely cleaned.

Parking is very expensive for an… off-site lot, and has had multiple break in and theft issues since I have been here. Read More

They were so close to getting us. Walking in to the Foundry, we were in awe. An immaculately decorated lobby in a warehouse industrial style, walking distance from the metro, with restaurants and even a movie theater and Wegman’s outside, wow.

And the tour they take you on? Gorgeous. All the trappings. The rooftop pool, the meeting rooms, and even a furnished apartment that is so well appointed, it looks like it might have been designed by a mythical God.

The building has got a 3-level gym, a… sports bar, and even a Pac-Man machine in the game room.

And the rent is so cheap, relative to buildings with comparable amenities, we were stunned. We left the building thinking: what is the catch?

Well, there is a catch. As you have no doubt discovered from reading the reviews, there was a management change a few years ago, and the quality of living at the Foundry has decreased significantly.

We didn’t take the reviews at face value, so we actually reached out to some residents. After this research, I believe strongly that the complaints are justified.

I’ve seen/heard evidence of constant problems. Elevator outages, packages lost, safety concerns. Cleanliness issues. I have seen photographic evidence of cars having been destroyed in the garage (tires literally removed).

The coup de grace, however, is that some of the “amenities” that they promise you on the tour are actually NOT ACCESSIBLE TO RESIDENTS. They are LIES.

We are artists, and on the tour Francisco (our guide) took us to a community art room. It was impressive. Work stations, lockers, materials, and a communal environment to do art.

Well, it was all a mirage! Turns out management closed this room MONTHS AGO to the residents, with no notice, and it remains locked and inaccessible. Had we signed a lease, this room wouldn’t have been available for us.

Several residents confirmed this to me. So they just straight up lied to us.

What else was a lie?

I wrote to the leasing office and asked them to clarify these discrepancies (we genuinely WANTED to like this building and wanted to give all the benefits of the doubt). They never responded.

Basically, not being able to know what was a truth and lies, we ran the other way. I consider not staying here to have been a major dodged bullet.

I hope this is helpful to other people who are at risk of staying here. Do your own research and decide for yourself, but take everything the Foundry tells you with the assumption that they are trying to hoodwink you. Read More

You will want to live here if you love:
Having mail and packages stolen
Paying $6600 when your lease closes
Having the homeless community sleeping in the lobby and attacking residents
Hallways full of dog urine
Being woken up in the middle of the night with a police chase through the hallways
Having your car broken into and vandalized

Don't trust the high review score as the good ones are older.

The business model was basically a trick. They had one company group be SUPER nice, get people in, get great reviews, offer AWESOME amenities and service.

After the building was 92% full (or 97, something like that) this OTHER management group came in to start cutting everything, jacking up rent, and are totally incompetent and rude. They literally tell untruths about why services are taken away. Theres also constant crime. I… cannot wait to move out. This place used to have a great lively vibe.... and now it's like a sad library. Read More