The Commonwealth Building

Reviews

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  Ashka Raval

  Sep 10, 2026
  5.0
  I have lived in this building for 1.5 years . I would say it is an amazing apartment building. Very well maintained, neat and clean. The apartments are high quality and spacious with ample storage space. The maintenance staff is amazing, always resolved requests quickly. And two ladies Kate and Jen in the office are very helpful and welcoming. They also organise great socialising event.
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  Stella Park

  Aug 11, 2026
  1.0
  It really hurts to write this review as I really adored living in this place until a month ago. First of all, Jen and Kate are amazing, I talk/complain to them regarding issues in my unit and they are so sweet and exceptionally supportive and helpful regarding any issue. I have been living in this property for a year now. My first priority of choosing somewhere to live was where there is no bug what so ever. As the recent review is shown, the trash chute has been closed for 6+ weeks and the building started to have different types of fly issues. Fruit flies, gnat flies... and now I have been seeing phorid flies. The management team (Kate and Jen) has been doing so much on their end to resolve this as all this happening was never their fault- trash chute closure was happened by stupid resident who doesn't know how to throw out trash properly. But now the building is covered with all different types of flies regardless of the cause, the exterminator has come twice so far, even came to my unit to spray and after a week of research, I found out that it is phorid flies from how they behave (walk/jump), and how they look like. I am 100% confident that these things are phorid flies as I posted several images of them on social media asking what this is and they all conclude that it's not fruit flies, but phorid flies. Anyways, the exterminator even saw the bug (I showed him) and I described how they behave and such but he was just keep saying that it is a fruit fly and they just come in when I open my front door. First of all, after this issue, I have been bleaching everything and cleaning twice every day, spraying tea tree oil every hour, not open my window, not eating in the apartment, throwing out any trash everyday, and I still killed on average 20-30+ flies. Total, I think I have killed 200+ flies. I feel like the maintenance and exterminator that they use are not very professional people who should be maintaining this place. Fruit flies are really easy to get rid of, but phorid flies are so hard to get rid of and I am afraid that this will be a long battle for very long time as they can also live throughout the winter in warm areas. I believe this issue can be adjusted if it is taken very seriously and use more professional exterminator who can diagnose better... I have really bad bug phobia and this bug issue has been going for 2+ weeks now and I have been extremely stressed. If you are not friends with bugs like me please avoid for now.
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  Tyler Ericson

  Dec 17, 2024
  2.0
  Moved to The Commonwealth towards the beginning of the year. The property staff at the time was great. Planned to live here for quite some time as the location is great, it WAS well maintained and kept remarkably clean. The residents of the building are also great for a downtown apartment! The property management company changed in August to Walnut Capital Management and that is when the steady decline began. The building is not maintained like a premium apartment anymore and for the price it is just not worth it! It is now just another mediocre apartment building downtown. The staff consistently just leave trash in the halls for weeks on end only for residents to take care of it. The small area for dogs almost always has food and trash in it. Which makes it very difficult to take dogs out. Once again residents are the ones that keep it clean. You have to continuously contact the property manager just to have basic things addressed like changing trash cans. I have lived in some really awful buildings. This one is not quite to that level, but it is coming really close. I chose to live here because I thought it would be better, but once Walnut Capital Management took over it has just spiraled. It has now been four months since they took over which is plenty of time to work out any kinks. Will update this review if it gets better, but at the moment would not recommend!
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  Al Fakih Iman

  May 13, 2022
  5.0
  I loved spending my time in Pittsburgh living at the Commonwealth Building, where the managers and everyone working there were very kind and helpful. The building is clean, well maintained and has very nice apartments with the option to get a wonderful view of downtown Pittsburgh.

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