Village Promenade:
266 apartment units
22,000 square feet of retail space
$60 million cost, including parking garage
Timeline:
May 2013: Project announced
October 2013: Permits filed and construction begins
Aug. 16, 2014: Move-in date
Vehicles full of furniture and houseware filled the Village Promenade parking garage as residents of the apartment complex moved in Saturday.
The moving did not come without complications.
“When we got here, we didn’t realize our keys weren’t working to our apartment and so were about 75 other units. So they had to reprogram our key,” said Paris Buslon, senior journalism major. “We didn’t even get ours fixed until about late afternoon [Sunday].”
Despite the issue with keys, Buslon said the Promenade staff were helpful and flexible after some perseverance on her part.
“They were kind of strict at first, but even someone who works here said, ‘you know, if you just kind of fight them a bit they’ll let you do whatever,’” she said.
Bulson lived in an apartment on Ashland Ave. before moving into the Promenade. She said the new facility was much nicer than her previous residence.
Bulson said she noticed a few minor issues after she moved in.
“We’ve already had issues with some of the appliances, like leaking with the dishwasher,” she said.
Tenants were told construction on the living space had just finished at 5 a.m. on move-in day, Bulson said.
More than a year has passed since the Promenade was announced in May of last year, but construction is still going on after residents have moved in.
Bulson said her roommate had stumbled onto the construction by accident after getting off on the wrong floor.
“She said she could have walked right through it and no one would have know,” she said. “There’s no restriction, I guess, to not walk through the construction zone, and she easily did.”
Still, Bulson said she prefers the Promenade over her last living situation.
“This place is so much better,” she said. “I’m still getting used to it, but I like it a lot so far.”
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