Museum Tower

Pros: Amazing deal on month to month rent with a good price for the downtown location. Amenities area are never full so you always have access whenever you want to use them. Nice balconies with cool views of downtown and the mountains. Security officers are always helping and are friendly. Sauna/​pool/​weight room/​lobby/​Great location. Renovations coming soon.
Cons: Infested with flies. It’s amazing me that more people haven’t reported this. Flies near every entrance and on the balconies. I believe they are cluster flys due to them swarming in one area. Building smells like a old folks home. Laundry machines leave clothes smelling unwashed sometimes. Outdated fitness equipment that I’m sure will be replaced with renovations. Constant ambulance noise due to senior village across the street.

Lived here 5 years and about to move out. Love and hate this place. Love walking to work. Hate the construction and road noise, sirens, people singing opera at 5:30 in the morning under my window, skateboarders ollying at 11:30 at night, concerts with bass vibrating my windows and couch (I live on the 11^th floor), and gardener air blowers running at 6:30 a.m. Hate that they shut down a lot of roads in DTLA every weekend it seems for Ciclavia, concerts, and filming, such that I can’t even get to my apartment and cops tell me to take a 30 minute detour. Love the security guards, especially Guillermo, and the cleaning people! Things get fixed ASAP. Love that I’ve never seen a single cockroach, mouse or rat in 5 years! Do not love the 90s appliances and décor, but it is a utilitarian place meant for convenience. There is a pool, gym and sauna, which I generally do not use. The building is in somewhat beatup shape though. The laundry machines and elevators are often broken. I got stuck in an elevator for 30 minutes. Neighbors are nice, most are professionals or students. I haven’t run into any weirdos, as I did when living in Skid Row on Spring St.

I had lived here for more than a decade so I figure I share a few things for future tenants.
The building itself is fairly quiet. My first unit had a crazy neighbor who get drunk and do strange stuff at 3am. I moved to another unit and the neighbors were very quiet.
The area outside the building, however, is very noisy. Here are the noise sources
1. building construction (first the music school then the new complex on grand, which is still on-​going I believe
2. band playing almost every weekend at MOCA
3. fire truck and EMT going by grand almost everyday.

Very pleased with the security, quietness and cleanliness of the building. The elevators are a bit slow but the garage is safe and secure and with tons of security cameras. Plenty of places to walk to and eat!

Good location but not clean

This place is good on location as it is downtown between 2^nd and 3^rd. There is security in the lobby but I caught a guard asleep at the post once. The elevators are constantly breaking down leaving only one or two of the five operational. A one bedroom is upwards of $ 1400. The appliances are dated. Management is not friendly and do not appear to care about the tenants especially those that have a lot of time left on their leases. There was a point in time in which the parking garage was not well lighted leaving it a welcome ground for perverts to attack unsuspecting males or females. It lacks a lot of luster. There have been times when the lights will go out in the bathroom and the only way to take a shower is by candle light… The proximity to the museum of contemporary art is pretty nice if you’re into that. They are also near a post office located virtually underneath the building with access from the parking garage or you can take a five minute walk to 350 grand st/​ave. Overall, it is conveniently an inconvenient place to live.

Just looked at this 2 ½ year old review and noted that all but one of the issues I noted has been addressed! Good job Museum Tower management!

Perfect location across of the Disney Concert Hall, behind the MOCA, and a very short walking distance to the heart of the financial district. Farmers market is every Wednesday and Friday — as well as walking distance to JTown.
Apartments are well maintained and spacious, with large windows and great views and most of my neighbors are quiet young families or working professionals. My only complaints are the small gym (two treadmills, broken stepper, broken rower, and one weight machine) and parking situation where there is no assigned parking — first come first serve… however, if you arrive too late, sometimes there IS no parking — and parking rules aren’t always enforced.
Management is hard to get a hold of but whenever there is anything broken — it is fixed immediately.
Update: Beware, management just raised rent by over 20%!! Many tenants are moving out because we are now forced to sign a lease instead of their easy-​going month-​to-​month plan… :(very disappointed