I saw a post about the snow on the sidewalk in front of 326 State Street so I thought I’d pass along my experience checking out an apartment inside the modern looking building.<\/p>\n
I went to an open house at that condo. The developer\/architect made the strangest choices in how they used the space. The rooms are small. The living\/dining room in one apartment was so small that, after deciding on whether you wanted them to install a spiral stair case or a regular stair case to the balcony above the kitchen (where the washer\/dryer and mechanical closets are), you’d be hard pressed to fit in anything more than a couch, a chair and a coffee table. yet they opted to create a minimum of 14 foot ceilings in each apartment. Had they forgone the ridiculously high ceilings, they would have wound up with larger foot prints for each apartment and normal size rooms rather than something that feels like overgrown walk-in closets. <\/p>\n
Also, for some completely bizarre and unexplained reason, when you climb up to the balcony space in most of the apartments, they built a platform in the “storage room.” The platform is made out of plywood painted black and it takes up the entire square footage of the room so that you have to basically crawl around on it. When I questioned the realtor about why they did this, he said so that you don’t have to leave your things on the floor. (That seemed like the oddest answer because they essentially built a second, unfinished floor and created 2 feet of dead space beneath it.) I said why would that be a problem? He didn’t have a reasonable answer. He also told me that once you buy an apartment, you can rip out the platform and do whatever you want with the small windowless room, turn it into an office, whatever. So why the heck did they build the useless platform in the first place? Everyone is going to rip them out. Maybe it had something to do with the FAR (floor to area ratio) zoning.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I saw a post about the snow on the sidewalk in front of 326 State Street so I thought I’d pass along my experience checking out an apartment inside the modern looking building. I went to an open house at that condo. The developer\/architect made the strangest choices in how they used the space. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-19695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real_estate"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/02\/326-state-stree\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"326 State Street","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/02\/326-state-stree\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/02\/326-state-stree\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Real Estate","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"stevek"}],"creator":["stevek"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2008-02-28T08:58:32Z","datePublished":"2008-02-28T08:58:32Z","dateModified":"2008-07-28T16:27:52Z"},"rendered":"