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Top Amenities
- 24-Hour Front Desk
- Air Conditioning
- Bike Storage
- Building Laundry Room
- Cat friendly
- Elevators
- Fitness Center
- Free Shuttle Service
- Granite Countertops
- Parking Garage
- Stainless Steel Appliances
About this Location
restaurants nearby
~5 min walk
<5 min walk
4 min walk
Pricing
Schedule Appointment At
(215) 561-2700-
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Elevators
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Included
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Basic Cable Included
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Gas Included
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Heat Included
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Water Included
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Kitchen
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Dishwasher
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Garbage Disposal
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Granite Countertops
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Microwave
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Stainless Steel Appliances
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Stove & Oven
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Laundry
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Building Laundry Room
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Living Room
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Air Conditioning
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Parking & Transportation
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Bike Storage
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Free Shuttle Service
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Parking Garage
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Pet Terms & Amenities
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Cat friendly
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Security & Maintenance
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24-Hour Front Desk
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Sports & Fitness
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Fitness Center
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Overall rating 8.4/10, based on 264 renter reviews Write a review
2400 Chestnut Apartments reviews and highlights
- Very safe building
- Close to running and cycling lanes along the river
- Extremely affordable monthly parking ($150/month)
- Great for young families
- Lots of graduate students and residents
- Lots of convenient amenities
- Countertops and cabinets could be nicer
- Maintenance is very responsive
- Common areas are always clean
- Quiet building
- Tons of closet space
- Great view of the city
- Huge windows
- Older kitchens and bathrooms
- 3 blocks from Trader Joe's
- Lots of sunlight
- Great bedroom layout
- Great place to live
- Amazing doormen
- Friendly and helpful staff
- Fantastic management
- Right next to the Schuylkill running trail
- Small, but functional gym
- Electrical bills can run high
- Free satellite TV
- Insulation could be better
- 20 minute walk to Penn and Drexel's campus
- Central and convenient location
- Amazing value
- Great community with friendly neighbors
- Good shower pressure
- Free laundry rooms on each floor
- Free (and frequent) shuttle to University City
Renovated apartments, great view and closest to campus!
Pros:
1. Good safety with a doorman and access card checkin
2. 25 min walk to Penn and 2 mins from a septa bus stop
3. Amazing views and newly renovated apartments
4. Individual heating and cooling units in each room
Cons:
1. Some floors are still being renovated so make sure to pick a floor that is complete
2. The chestnut bridge is being renovated so it's not a busy street at night. (pro is less noise; con maybe safety in walking alone at night but that is not recommended anywhere)
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Roommates
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2 beds / 1 bath
2400 Chestnut
Good experience, except for the construction (which should be wrapping up soon!). The staff are kind and helpful; and there is a morning/evening shuttle to University City. Beautiful views of the river, easy access to grocery stores and public transport, and close to Rittenhouse.
Note that the building is right next to the train tracks so there are some middle-of-the-night horns that can be heard loud and clear.
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1 bed / 1 bath
2400 Chestnut Review
Old facilities-constant repairs
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Roommates
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2 beds / 2 baths
Nice building, not the best option for the money though
Close to campus, great view.
Noise from cargo train horns and construction on Chestnut street bridge.
The building is undergoing some improvements on the hallways that have taken longer than expected but should be completed soon (February 2022).
Friendly staff, but a little bit slower on maintenance requests.
Apartment terminations could be better.
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Couple
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1 bed / 1 bath
Amazing location with fully renovated rooms
Perfect location right on the river between Center City and Penn Campus. ~25 min walk to the med school campus. 5-10 min walk to Trader Joe’s, CVS, Target, etc. friendly management is generally responsive to repair requests, etc. mail/package service and gym included in the rent. Gym is pretty small but has basic equipment. Affordable given the great location and quality of the rooms, especially if you live with roommates.
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Studio / 1 bath
This building is the worst (I'm not being melodramatic)
Where to start... this building and apartment is overall, in one word, trash. Having living in many metropolitan areas and dealt with the typical issues that exist with apartment living—neighbor noise, elevator wait times, construction interruptions, etc.—this building has somehow managed to outperform every apartment building in Philly in the worst ways.
Noise:
-neighbors: you can hear everything. It's as if there is only half an inch of sheet rock between the apartment units. Conversations? Yes. Toilet shutting? Yes. Closing the closet? Yup
-construction: there are renovations happening on many hallways and units throughout the building, but this is the most mind-blowing part: you can hear construction drilling and banging from not only the floor you're on or near you, but many floors above or below you. How on Earth does the noise travel this much? Noise dampening just doesn't exist in this building. Want to work from home? Nope, you're screwed. Want to study at home? Hilarious—you're even more screwed. Bye bye, good GPA.
-elevator: this is quite possibly the most ridiculous thing about the building and the biggest issue I've had in the many buildings I've lived in: you can hear the elevator running constantly. If you're in a unit that's right next to the elevator, get ready for constant wake-ups and disturbances every 45-60 seconds. Even if you are living at the end of the hallway—like I am—you *still* somehow hear this elevator *even when you're wearing earplugs*. That is how bad the noise is.
It sounds like air whooshing for 20-25 seconds, and then start up again a little later. Over and over. I've been using ear plugs for when I sleep, study, work, etc — I've been using earplugs so much that *I received an ear infection a few weeks ago* because I have never had to live like this before. This is torture.
In short: beautiful on the surface, absolutely terrible internally. Living here is hell.
The only redeeming quality is the management: management seems to be on top of repairs and things needing to get done in the building.
I may try to sublet my place or have someone takeover my lease, but 1) who would want to live here with these issue, and 2) I have a conscious so I don't know if I can morally allow someone to take over my lease.
For all incoming students and professionals: AVOID THIS BUILDING. Don't say nobody warned you.
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1 bed / 1 bath
Generally good, few issues, will probably live here again
It has been generally nice to live here, no pet rent which is super nice, great lighting and room layout, great views, and weirdly cheap parking for the area. It's good walking distance from campus but also has a shuttle which is super convenient and a really close trolley station at 22nd and Market like 3 blocks away. Only major issues have been that there is ongoing construction (usually scheduled during lunch hour) and there have been some flooding issues this year given the 100 year flood. Also, have had a number of elevator issues which would be fine except that the stairs don't have lobby access to take them up, only down.
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Pet owner
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1 bed / 1 bath
Great location and nice amenities, but lots of construction
This apartment complex is in a great location (walking distance to both campus and Center City) with amazing views and pretty nice amenities such as a gym and free shuttle service to campus. For what you get, the rental price is a pretty good value. Management has also been responsive in my experience when I have questions. The biggest downside is the ongoing construction; part of it is unavoidable on management's part, as the Chestnut Street bridge is being repaired and Schuykill River flooding in September 2021 created other problems. The building only allows cats--no dogs.
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Roommates
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2 beds / 2 baths
Clean, relatively quiet, elevator problems
The good:
The apartments are clean - no bugs or other pests.
Wonderful, friendly front desk staff.
Shuttle to Penn.
Cat-friendly.
The bad:
Not so friendly management staff. Dismissive. Might ignore your emails. Also, management needs to be more transparent (last year, there were recurring fires - approx 7 times - in the trash room and tenants received no explanation).
Apartments were recently renovated but seem to have been poorly done - doorknobs on closets falling off, crystal deco on the overhead lights falling off, electric sockets not working, built-in heating/ac system regularly stops working. Also, learn to take shorter showers and say goodbye to baths; water runs cold after 30 minutes.
Major elevator traffic - there are three elevators serving the 33 floors and maintenance/construction crew are constantly using them in the morning.
The lower floors of the building were submerged in water during the flood and are undergoing repairs/currently inaccessible (including the gym).
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Pet owner
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Studio / 1 bath
So Far So Good
Other than elevators being a little slow to service, due to number of floors, it's been so far so good.
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Studio / 1 bath
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That being said I did notice that most students lived on the side of the school!
There are residents without housing in the neighborhood. They're good people and new residents should be respectful of them and their belongings.