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Top Amenities
- 24 Hour Fitness Facility
- Building Laundry Room
- Controlled Access
- Elevators
- Granite Countertops
- Hardwood Floors
- Individually Controlled Heat & A/C
- Parking Garage
- Pet Friendly
- Private Balconies
- Stainless Steel Appliances
- Walk-in Closets
About this Location
8 min via 32 (bus)
8 min walk
neighborhood
restaurants nearby
31/32/36 (bus) - 4 min
Pricing
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Bedrooms
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Walk-in Closets
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Elevators
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Kitchen
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Dishwasher
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Microwave
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Refrigerator
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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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Hardwood Floors
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Individually Controlled Heat & A/C
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Large Windows
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Parking & Transportation
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Parking Garage
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Security & Maintenance
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Controlled Access
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Sports & Fitness
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24 Hour Fitness Facility
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View
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Private Balconies
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Overall rating 7.3/10, based on 150 renter reviews Write a review
Columbia Plaza reviews and highlights
- safe and clean neighborhood
- parking is a little pricey
- huge windows which let in lots of natural sunlight
- utilities and electricity included in the rent
- spacious layout with plenty of room for entertaining
- convenient location close to the metro
Close and Nice
Columbia Plaza is a quick walk to school and not far from the Foggy Bottom Metro stop. A convenience store, dry cleaner, and a few places to eat are located in the plaza. A number of GW grad students live in the building so it is easy to make friends, but it is not overbearing if you don't want to be social all the time.
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1 bed / 1 bath
Good location, bad service
The location is good, quite near the Metro station. The price is not bad considering how much space I get in the apartment. The front desk's service is terrible.
PS: a mouse maybe came in to our apartment at one point.
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Roommates
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1 bed / 1 bath
Good
Worth it. Should definitely try this. Really great view and location. Ideal for students at GW. Great amenities and management is amazingly helpful. Very close to the metro station and nearby restaurants and pubs. Great for social life and student environment.
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2 beds / 2 baths
My apartment
Best apartment. Very close to my school. The price is totally is worth it considering we live in downtown. All the facilities are available. The best part about this apartment is that most of the GWU students prefer to live here therefore we can always have a good social life.
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2 beds / 2 baths
Excellent housing for students
It's close to the uni, lots of like minded students live close by and the apartments are just amazing! The amenities in the kitchen are very high end and make living very convenient. The balcony gets ample sunlight and is great to hold parties. The management is very helpful and responsive in case of any issues.
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Roommates
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2 beds / 2 baths
Good location
This is a good location near GW so it is good for students or other professionals working in Foggy Bottom. The apartment building is not fancy, but it is still nice enough and has everything you might need. The area is safe and easy accessible to the rest of the city.
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2 beds / 2 baths
There are better options in the area
This apartment is a bit run down, especially considering the other buildings in the area. I love the neighborhood as it's close to both offices and residential buildings, the metro, grocery stores, GW, but the building needs some updating. It smells at times, gets cold during the winter months, and doesn't have the most up to date amenities.
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Couple
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1 bed / 1 bath
Can't Beat the Location, but CAN Beat the Rent
If you're interested in an apartment close to campus and have a relatively flexible budget, Columbia Plaza's not a bad place to live. My studio apartment is pretty large (bigger than the other studios I've seen near campus), and utilities / electric are included in the rent.
The rent, however, is VERY expensive. $1,986 per month right now, and that's after a $20 increase from last year's rent.
Two other problems: Cockroaches and temperature. As far as temperature is concerned... Central heating and A/C, so it's cold during the summer and hot during the winter. You have no control over this. I've purchased a small fan to keep near my bed, for those nights when the heat is overpowering.
In terms of roaches, there isn't much you can do. They're not in all of the buildings (I live in Baron, which has them, but my friends in Ambassador don't have any), and I think they live in the walls. They only come out in the fall (I lived here all of last year without seeing any, but when I returned after a summer out of state, they'd moved in), and were gone by the time I got back from winter break. I reported them to management, who were really responsive about sending out the exterminator, but he's only around once a week and before long, the roaches were back again. They also like to hang out in the trash room, so stay away from there late at night.
If you can't afford The Avenue, Columbia Plaza apartments aren't priced too terribly, given the location and the apartment size. If you don't mind a commute, though, the same amount of rent in Arlington or Alexandria will pretty much get you a palace.
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Studio / 1 bath
Great location close to campus; very spacious but pretty pricey
It's a great place to live in terms of being a few blocks from the law campus; the apartments are spacious and lots of natural light; it's on the pricey side though. Utilities/electric are all included in the rent but you have to get your own cable/internet through Xfinity (which I pay ~$100 for); most of the rooms are newly renovated with kitchen amenities and new shelving. The maintenance staff responds to problems extremely quickly; I had some issues with water leaking under the floor boards and causing them to be raised but the building dealt with it and put new floor panels in within 24 hours.
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1 bed / 1 bath
Columbia Plaza Review
The apartment itself is spacious and nice. However, the management is completely unbearable and inapproriate. The leasing manager, who runs the leasing office creates an environment of disrespect and laziness that the rest of the office follows. They did as much as they could to make me feel unwelcome. After putting a security deposit down on an apartment, I got a phone call and was harassed by management. She completely shamed me and told me that because I was signing the lease with my boyfriend I was not allowed to live in Columbia Plaza as an unmarried couple. She went on to tell me that by living with my boyfriend I would lose my status as a GW Law student and would therefore have to prove that I made a salary of $80,000 a year. When we complained she finally agreed to "turn a blind eye," however, my boyfriend would not be added to the lease until I could show them that we had gotten married. I plan on moving in the summer.
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Couple
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1 bed / 1 bath
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