Appleton Mills 219 Jackson Street, Lowell, MA 01852

"Pros - tremendous, interior mezzanine with award winning architecture. My personal studio has a really nice galley kitchen with "faux" granite tops, glass top stove with above micro / vent combo, dishwasher, tracks lights, two fans with dimmers and intensity controls. Always used to have hot water immediately. Kind of Artsy building but the new management isn't too concerned about us compared to Wynn - the previous management company. Cons -The new Management co., Trinity Management is only here to squeeze the most profit it can from this building. That means less maintenace, either in labor to fix your sink or mop the floors. Finally there are 2 consistent people in the managment office. It's been touch and go getting anything communicated. This area is in the middle of a developer boom/feeding trough to the tune of 800 million.. The density of population here is already estimated at 3000 per square mile. There is NO street parking. We must pay. Some here are low income. So you have 5 multimillionaires running most of this area - LAZ parking, S&R Contractors, Wynn Mgmt, Trinity Mgmt and one other Italian developer. 78 dollars is a fair amount to pay for parking a month. Figure that in your rent. Additionally, the developers get variances for making noise whenever they want, so that means if you are near the construction in building B, and you're facing 110 canal st, you are screwed. Dust, noise, vibrations will begin at 6 AM or so, and can be continued on weekends. Construction looks like it will continue well into 2025 or longer. By that time, the population in this area will easily increase by an estimated 33% or more. The City of Lowell does not have a single urban developer on staff. It's a massive capitalistic mistake. We have very little to no green space around us, the last really good green was covered with concrete. The small park with the sculpture was a little gem, with wild rabbits, gophers and exotic bushes. The new developers bought it from the city, supposedly, and mowed EVERYTHING down, leaving the brush behind. Now its a homeless dump. That's their definition of maintenance. We have tons of homeless people shooting heroine and leaving needles/bloody gauze behind, never mind the hundreds and hundreds of plastic shot bottles they get from the liquor store 2 blocks from the shelter, and beer cans. I have been tryin to keep this area clean with my own two hands and a red cart. Anyway, long story short - management was more concerned about the liability of my loft space and illegally denied my request reasonable accomodation. Hows that for treating an approved artist and disabled Veteran. They need a social worker here who knows who to talk to people properly, we are treated like peasants on some damn king's land. Watch out for your packages and laundry. Thanks for reading. The true conditions exceeded the character limit, but what your takeaway is that management has the most passive-aggressive style of treating you, and their emails and letters are sheer harassment and even illegal. I'm too damn tired to want to sue, but some have. Do you want that kind of living peril? Stress?"

"pros and cons - great space, nice kitchen, fans on dimmers, track lighting, great architecture. You will be charged for a one bedroom even though it's an open concept studio space. Managment has changed and appears machiavellian. Supposed to support artists but new management is rather oppositional to their residents in general. That attitude appears systemic. All of the harrassing and threatening emails and letters one can receive put a taint on the magnificence of the living spaces. Some residents have extreme problems with their hot water, or even color of their water. Your packages from Amazon or UPS have a good chance of being stolen if let outside of the lockers or boxes, which is habitual. The courtyard finally has some lighting now, although we have more dubious activity with people trying to walk into apartments at night by checking the door handles. The homeless shelter the next street over is purgatorial and the miasma seeps over here. This general area is being over-developed and your peace of mind if your apartment faces canal st or the construction sites will likely be severely impacted by early construction noise, dust and vibrations -perhaps even weekends, since variances are issued to the powerful developers. The development likely looks to go till 2025 at least, and the population here will be about 3000 people in a square mile or more. There is no resident parking and you will pay about 80 bucks a month for that, so figure it into your rent. Just being realistic, this is an up and coming hood if the planners include peaceful green space, which so far isn't a priority for the capitalistic developers. They are here to extract as much wealth as they can regardless of our standards of living by overpopulation. Dog poop on the sidewalks, even the new bridge now, and dog poop on the few green spaces. I have tracked it twice into my apartment. The city doesnt' put up extra dog waste bins in the most densely populated area in Lowell. It's too bad. After almost 4 years here, it's time to move on....."

"Appleton Mills provides an affordable community for artists across a broad spectrum of the arts. It is within walking distance of the center of downtown Lowell. The location is defined by major historic canals and is next to the Lowell National Historical Park."

"There’s a mix of old and new which makes this place quite beautiful and unique. It is also a great place to live due to its central location. The two large mill buildings on Jackson Street—Appleton Mill, which houses the Cottonhouse Lofts, and Hamilton Mill, currently under constuction—were built around 1826. The construction of these large textile companies was funded in part by Patrick Tracy Jackson and Nathan Appleton, some of Lowell's earliest investors. Appleton was the cousin of Francis Cabot Lowell, for whom the city is named. These men were particularly supportive of education for the young and old, providing one of the first buildings for the Lowell High School in the 1830s, and a few years later offering space for the Ministry-at-Large evening school program for adults."

"Don't be fooled by this. Appleton Mills is hardly a place for artists. They do NOT support artists. Management doesn't care about the residents. The "Artist Workspace" has been taken over by one person doing wood work. No one can work down there. They put up a good front, but don't be fooled. All they care about is getting apartments filled. The grounds are unkept, the security is none, there are addicts and homeless getting in the building hiding in stairwells shooting up and sleeping in closets and the community room. They have no respect for any residents. They charge for a one bedroom that is a studio, and they charge for a two bedroom that was supposed to be a one bedroom with a work space. The second so called bedroom has only three walls, no door, no window, and no privacy. Good luck with these people they suck."