I don't love living downtown. Especially with taking a dog out at night, its not ideal.

While you can find cheaper or cooler apartments elsewhere, the convenience of PP is unmatched. Whether it’s super hot or super cold, you just have to walk across the street. It is also very safe and secure, and the appliances and everything are well kept and updated. The gym is great too. Small, but hardly anyone is ever up there. It may drive you nuts being so close to school, but I got used to it! Even when my room faced the blue glow of SLU at night.

Glorified Dorms. Many law students live here and allow for easy meet ups. Plus, the location is so great. Negatives is the location is not close to basic necessities like a large grocery. Plus, it is not the safest at night

Very nice, but expensive and a good amount of building maintenance issues

Although this is the closest apartment to SLU Law, it is by far the most unsafe. I personally experienced a break-in while I was home, and management placed the blame on me. This was not an isolated incident. Break-ins continue to happen, averaging one or two per month, and management continues to blame residents. Management also does not inform building residents when break-ins occur, further posing safety risks. They tout safety when you tour the apartment, even claiming that two "on-call" police officers live in the building. This is blatantly false information. There is no security personnel whatsoever. The security cameras are not monitored, and neither are the entries and exits to the building. When a pipe burst in the winter, it left 30-40 apartments displaced and without internet for days. maintenance was unresponsive and management again placed blame on residents, despite the pipe being reported for months leading up to the burst. The fire alarm goes off about once a week, day or night, and management refuses to address the issue. washer and dryers leave grease marks and ruin clothes, and instead of providing you with a new washer or dryer, maintenance simply gives you a different old one, and you have the same problem in another month. All of the positive reviews about this building online are either old or solicited by management for rent credits. In addition, there are 20-30 units in this building allocated to Airbnb rentals. This creates additional safety concerns, as well as noise and the smell of marijuana at all hours of the day and night. Park Pacific is renting them for as low as $45 per night, so the clientele attracted is not ideal for a safe and studious environment. On top of this, Park Pacific gave residents no information about leasing the units through Airbnb, further disregarding resident safety. For 6 months, all four elevators have never operated. Residents continue to get stuck on elevators and management has never contracted an actual elevator company to come fix the elevators.

I cannot stress enough how unsafe this building truly is. The last thing you want in law school is additional stress, and all this building and management causes is stress and genuine concern for your safety. I highly encourage you to live a couple blocks away from the law school in a safer environment.

Great for in-person classes, right across from SLU LAW.

The Park Pacific facility itself is a nice facility. It's in a great walkable location across the street from the SLU law school. There is a gym, parking garage, and the units are updated.

As a law student, the location was convenient, but I also felt claustrophobic at times as I was almost always downtown in one location. Going outside at night sometimes can feel a bit unsafe. In addition, the office staff is not very understanding or accommodating when issues arise. For example, they were not flexible with renters during the Covid Pandemic situation, with many people stuck in leases they no longer needed. While I understand the financial difficulties for all parties, the staff members could have expressed and practiced much more compassion.

Overall, Park Pacific could be a great option for a first-year student, but due to some of the unhelpful staff members and "concrete jungle" environment, I will be moving west of the city to find some fresh air and kinder landlords!

It didn't make too much difference for me to live next to school during covid but I liked the spacious studio and the scott hall/ courthouse view. Downtown is not the safest but the security in park pacific makes me feel safe. Good doorman.

You can't beat living across the street from the law school! Also close to school-related social hours, restaurants, and clinic/clerkship locations around the city. The management is great! Superfast with maintenance requests and good at setting up social events with other community members. The in-room washer/dryer is a huge plus. Super secure. You need to swipe an access card TWICE to get into the building and to use the elevator. Each resident can only swipe onto their floor and the floors with parking access or other community amenities.

As far as the downtown area is concerned, Park Pacific is the most affordable, plus you cannot beat its proximity to the law school. That said, it is a glorified law school dorm - sometimes with all the fixings of a typical dorm environment.

The building opened in 2013 (I believe). From my non-law school affiliated friends in the building, I hear that the building used to be fantastic, with diligent cleaning crews and beautifully shined marble floors in the lobby. I suspect that since the law school moved downtown, management has recognized that they have no need with such upkeep because they switched their focus from catering to professionals working in the downtown area to the fresh out of college law students who are only concerned with location and price. Knowing that there is a fresh crop of law students moving each year, the building no longer feels the need to keep the building clean, pristine, and maintained.

For example, last month (February 2021) when we had a week of extremely cold weather, a pipe burst. These things happen when extreme cold - EXCEPT for that fact that apparently a resident had been warning maintenance of this leaking pipe since sometime during the Fall 2020 semester.

In my unit, where I have lived for two years, there has been a window that cannot be opened because it is not actually attached the building. It will fall out onto the sidewalk if opened. Building management has said they have arranged for a contractor to fix it three times - no one has ever come to fix it. My washer and dryer was replaced with used ones of the same brand in October. By December, they were once again not working and I have had to put in three separate maintenance requests about my washer and dryer in the last three months, all left unanswered until today. Dryer stops working and it has to be physically moved, unplugged and "reset" every 2-3 loads, the washer sometimes will not start or complete a cycle, and if it does it is so loud that it can be heard from down the hallway. Washer also will leave grease stains or tear some clothing. Only today was the washer replaced - with a used one of the same brand that I have had issues with in the past. It seems like maintenance's MO is to put a bandaid on problems instead of throughly and completely fixing them.

Recently, it has been revealed that the management company allowed a corporation to rent units for use as AirBnBs. This presents a huge security risk for the building's residents and many are unhappy about this development. The leasing office essentially passed the buck off to the company who leased the units - "Park Pacific is not the one listing the units on AirBnB," completely ignoring the fact that they had to give this company permission. All in the effort to make an extra dollar - at the sacrifice of its well-established residents.

That is a pretty typical response from the leasing office, always passing blame on to another, refusing to be accountable for their own actions, and dismissing concerns.

As soon as I graduate from law school, I will be moving out of this building and I simply cannot wait.