We lived in the Fox Building for about 10 months while we renovated a house.
There are great things about the Fox Building. The staff are wonderful. I have absolutely no complaints about that. If we had a maintenance issue, someone was there very quickly. If we sent an email, they responded quickly. They were around a lot and very accessible. And always friendly and helpful! The location is great. It's near enough to be on the Avenue in 7 minutes (walking), but still far enough off that parking is as much of a struggle. The unit we had was nice; it's a studio, so it wasn't large, but it did the job. It definitely has a cool look since it's an old factory building - the high ceilings, the columns, the concrete floors. I really appreciated that one parking spot came with the apartment (not true of the other apartments in the area).
There were a few things about the apartment that I didn't love however. The walls are VERY thin. We had no neighbor on our right side for the first 2-4 months we lived there. And then someone moved in. Unfortunately, he liked to play video games until 6/7am on weekdays without a headset. He also liked to have people over at 2/3am - sometimes on weekdays. We talked to him a few times but it didn't really make a difference. I got a white noise app on my phone and blocked him out best I could. I don't think this would happen to everyone in the building. Most residents are quiet (we hardly ever heard our other neighbor, maybe a few times and not in the middle of the night on a weekday), but the walls are thin enough that this particular neighbor really affected our life in the Fox Building. We had an eastern facing unit, and the light that comes in through the glass blocks of the building (sunlight in the morning and a street lamp in the night) made it so bright in the apartment at all times. This was another major issue we had with the apartment. Finally, they made a little hard to get a pet sitter in the building when we traveled. You are given two fobs and that - we were told - was the only way anyone could get in the building. There was no code (as we have had in previous apartments) that could be associated with your phone number so that someone could be rung in to get inside. When we had to go out of town, we put a flier up in the lobby for a cat sitter in the building, so I would only have to leave a key and not my key and fob (which I would obviously have to get back ASAP). I wish this process was made easier. Even a Facebook group for residents so that I could have posted to find a cat sitter that way would have been helpful.
There are definitely things to love about the Fox Building, but ultimately there were some big drawbacks that kept me from loving it. read more