This is an update to my review I had wrote previously.
While I enjoyed my stay at park lane from 2010-2012 I have to say the management is horrible. I had gone form loving the place when I moved to to hating it after having dealt with many problems at park lane. While i loved the location of it, it did get annoying living there during the summer with all of the seaport craze during the warmer days of spring and summer. Traffic became somewhat of a joke and parking was annoying. Bozutto had caused nothing but problems for me towards the end of my stay here to the point I felt I was being discriminated against and opened a file with the housing board for discrimination.
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Old review from Jan 2010.
I moved in here in January and have loved it ever since. I have an amazing view and it is in such a nice, clean, developing area. Much different than living in downtown boston like the devonshire, which you would walk out of your building and basically see homeless people or the archstone on washington street. This is one of the main reasons I chose Park lane. It is an upscale living with concierge service, where you get set up your dry cleaning service and pick it up from them as well as packages from ups, fed ex.
There are 3 buildings to park lane the gym is located in the main building where the leasing office is. The gym is a bit small compared to your average GYM, but for it being in an apartment building, it is fine. Much similar to that of a hotel gym (but a little bit bigger) a room with cardio equipment and a room with free weights ( only go up to 50 lbs- but if your creative, you have make them heavier ). The devonshire's gym is SUPER tiny and JAM PACKED, however it does have a nice view because it is on one of the top floors. The devonshire had a pool and a sauna, which is nice but the gym was a big turn off due to its cluttered-ness.
Some of views from the devonshire were disappointing to us on the tour, for example we saw a building being renovated and the rooms were much smaller and more expensive. Park lane has a little bit bigger rooms, for cheaper, but it is further from the city. However, it is conveniently located to the silver line T.
If you download an app on your iphone you can time it so you don't have to end up waiting outside in the cold or rain which is great! the T stop is literally behind the Park lane building. Some of the rooms ( like we have ) have an amazingggggg view of the water and overlook Logan airport. It is NOT noisy from the planes.
Jerry Remys just opened across the street, as well as LTK and Salvatores which just underwent renovations. Legal seafoods flagship restaurant is opening soon as well as Del Frisco's and Tezmacal ( some mexican cantina).
Maintenance is very helpful around here and are fairly quick at resolving a work order if placed to the leasing office. This is one of the things we LOVED about when touring Park Lane which made us decide upon living here out of all the other luxury high rises in the city.
One down fall is the elevators sometimes break. There are 2 in my particular building, one was out for a good 8 weeks, which made things slow. People would be waiting for the 1 working elevators which would make your wait time sometimes up to 3-5 minutes, which it would normally be like less than 1 minute to 2 minutes wait.
Park lane also allows pets which other places don't. They're so many furry lil' pets running around on leashes in the lobby!
Park lane also has a parking garage RIGHT below the building, the devonshire I think only had valet ( which they charged you an arm and a leg (no thanks) or the government center parking garage which was like a 10 minute walk away. The Devonshire or Archstone aren't near any grocery store either. Park lane is in seaport, considered Southie and less than a 5 minute drive into Southie, you find Stop n Shop ( not the biggest one, but it works!) There is also a J Pace and sons right below the 1 Park lane building open till like 8 pm which has liquor, wine, grocery supplies, food, fresh deli's, fresh made sandwhiches, sodas, candy, etc. So it is convenient to have right next to you. Also about a 5 minute walk down the street is a DD and 711!
It is super convenient to the Mass pike and 93, the ramps are right down the road! It couldn't be easier. Plus you don't have to deal with literally all the ONE WAY streets like you do in the actual city which make you waste of bunch of time driving around like a fool.
I'm so happy living at Park lane so far read more