Evolve Apartments

This apartment complex has far exceeded my expectations. The units are clean, upscale, and new, with high-​quality fixtures. The management has improved significantly in the last few months (though to be honest, I was patient in the beginning, knowing that a new apartment complex generally needs a couple months to settle in). While I didn’t take the studio unit, I did find its layout to be fantastic – sliding doors make it possible to create a «bedroom» so that you have some privacy when guests come over. The deciding factor for me was that their rental pricing is extremely competitive with other complexes in the area – when I did the research, I found that Evolve’s pricing was lower than many new (upscale) apartment complexes in Capitol Hill.
Minor issues: there is a fair amount of traffic in the area, though that seems to be an issue inherent to capitol hill, not to Evolve. Also, the apartment’s décor is a bit modern for my tastes, but that seems to be the look that most new complexes on the hill are going for.
(note: I noticed that a fellow reviewer found the rooftop to be lacking, which I actually seriously disagree with. It’s fantastic for laying out or entertaining whenever the weather allows. We had a bunch of our guests watch the fireworks from the roof for 4^th of July, and they loved it!)

Asenath Polis is a really nice, friendly manager. She really helps to make our community like a home.

The apartments are nice but the layout of the two-​bedroom is terrible. The second bedroom is very small while the bathroom is half the size of the bedroom. Unless you put a dresser in here it’s a waste of space.
The management is better (they got rid of a lady who looked like she was always judging you) but I think the higher-​ups make them enforce some dumb policies.
The apartments are not cheap. I’m really hoping that the price goes down since all the other apartments are moving in. You can go to most other cities and pay ¾ the price while getting way better amenities.
Now my biggest gripe. When I moved in the guest parking was free. Now if you want to have guests over you must pay $ 10 a day. I would think after paying all that money for the apartment that they could at least give free guest parking…
The rooftop is meh. It has a grill and a fire-​pit which I may or may not be broken. I think that many of the other apartments around have a much nicer roof. The roof also features a «dog run» which I think is just a 30′ stretch of sidewalk? I haven’t really figured it out.
Anyways, I will be moving out when my lease is up and move on to much greener pastures.

Evolve has beautiful apartments, great amenities, and a great location. Walking down the hall, we can hear into other apartments. But when we’re in our apartment, we can’t hear our neighbors around us. We can hear the pounding of the person walking around upstairs daily, though. Then of course there’s the normal things to expect on Capitol Hill these days: lack of street parking, constant noise (for the most part, only bass makes it into the building), and expensive prices.
Within a month of living there, we were fed up with big and small issues with management. The biggest thing was that for the first month, we didn’t have a mailbox key, so they took the lock off our mailbox so we could get inside. Anyone could walk in off the street and steal our mail. Management brushed off the importance of this, minimized our concerns, and did nothing to fix this. After repeatedly telling management our concerns and getting no results, we went above them and contacted the property management company that they work for. If I had written a Unilocal review for Evolve at that time, I would have given it 1 star.
However, there’s now a completely new management team, run by someone who does everything she can to help us when we need it, and quickly takes care of concerns. I’m pretty sure she had a lot of fires to put out in her first few months. Within a week from her first day, we had a secure mailbox and a key.
Since then, I’ve enjoyed my time at Evolve and haven’t had any issues that haven’t been quickly resolved.

I moved into Evolve last summer and am happy with my overall experience. The building has gone through some challenges being brand new with many people moving in over a short amount of time, but the new manager that has recently taken over is awesome. She is very friendly and helpful with any questions or issues I might have. She accepts all of my packages (of which I have a lot — as an Amazon employee) and will deliver them directly to my apartment, which is great as I work late a lot and am not there to pick them up from the office. Maintenance is good too. I recently had a problem with a light fixture in my bathroom and the maintenance tech fixed it the same day! (don’t think I have had this great of service in other apartments that I have rented) He was also very friendly. Overall, I just love my apartment! It has large sliding door walls in the bedroom, wood style flooring, and the maintenance tech painted one of my walls with chalk board paint! My friends and I have a blast creating chalk art late on Saturday nights! My lease expired this last month and I was given no rent increase (this doesn’t happen anymore! Every time I renewed at my old apartment, they bumped the rent over a hundred of dollars). I’m staying for at least another year. I like most of my neighbors so why move! Fun people live here! Several of us get together for BBQ’s on the roof top deck weekly and go out for happy hours too. There are many good places within walking distance… Gokan, a Japanese restaurant is downs stairs on the 1^st floor and has a great happy hour.
I would recommend Evolve to anyone. great location, great apartment, great people, and great service!

Swanky apartments, hefty price tags to match, and terrible service.
There are several reasons I have loved the time I’ve spent at Evolve; the apartment is impressively done, with reclaimed wood floors, dark beautiful cabinetry, a huge bathroom with the kind of fixtures one expects in newly built homes, and a great location.
At least, we thought it was a great location. Even with the soundproofing that went into these well-​built city retreats, if you move in, be prepared to be blasted out of your apartment by every asshole with a sound system who drives through Capitol Hill on any given night. The first six months of my boyfriend’s lease, we also had to put up with the near constant bucket drumming from the high douche down the street who couldn’t even carry a melody. We aren’t haters – we liked this district for it’s character. But this drummer was too stoned to drum and seriously going from about 11 pm to 4 am on weeknights until Seattle PD finally took his drums after months of everybody in the neighborhood complaining.
This, however, isn’t really Evolve’s fault, and if you’re determined to live in Capitol Hill and can handle the risk of your sleep being interrupted constantly by construction, sudden unnecessarily loud base speakers in someone’s car, and the possibility of (Dear God we hope not) the bucket drummer coming back to play outside your window, Evolve would be an excellent place to spend 2k per month, IF the service wasn’t consistently horrible.
When my boyfriend first moved into his new place here, there was a gentleman who managed the place who seemed pretty well on top of his game, but he almost immediately cut down to next to no hours, and he was replaced by a lady who constantly looked like she smelled garbage that nobody else could. I think the garbage she smelled might have been me and my small bank account. My boyfriend works for a tech company, but my lack of a credit card with no limit and prada shoes seemed to offend her delicate sensibilities. I’m not trashy – I am a professional. I just work in the nonprofit sector. But apparently I don’t belong?
Once when I was walking into the building I couldn’t get the door code to work and she came to the door. She’d seen me on multiple occasions and knew who I was – or at least should’ve. I thought she was coming to open the door, since I was having trouble and I was carrying a couple of heavy bags. Instead, she opened the door just wide enough to look down her nose at me with a look on her face like she’d just smelled a rank fart and said in her most odious tone, «May I help you???» The tone clearly implied «Go away you filthy street rat.» I had to look at her and say «Uh, you know me? My boyfriend lives here? I’m here almost every day?» and push past her while she was still processing that information.
We’ve also had issues with parking. I have a car, he doesn’t. On rare occasions, I drive to his house instead of taking the bus because we need the car for something, and on those rare occasions, it has been a nightmare to park. The rules have changed multiple times but the general gist seems to be that you can buy a parking pass for a day for $ 10. You must do it in person, you must do it with a check, and you cannot pay in advance, so it’s not exactly convenient, but it’s something. Or at least, we thought it was, until they started asking why we needed a pass as though we were children in school asking for a hall pass, not paying customers. We also were given zero guidance as to where in the garage this pass made it ok to park, and must’ve parked in someone’s spot since I left my car for two hours once only to come back to a horrid note from another resident proclaiming this their spot (there were like 100 other empty ones?) and saying they paid way too much for someone to park in their space. Understandable, to an extent, but it was just so mean, and easily prevented had we just been told where to park when they gave us the pass.
Recently, Queen Resting Bitch Face was replaced by a new girl, which I was excited about, until she started not showing up, showing up ridiculously late, and losing packages. A week ago my boyfriend had a package come in which the tracking said was delivered to the office. That day he stopped by and the new office girl said she hadn’t received it. Ok, odd. We waited a few days and finally got notice from the office that they did, in fact, have a package for him, but the office is only open from 9 – 6 on weekdays and he doesn’t get back from work in Redmond until 6:30−7 most days, so we waited until the weekend to grab the package. Which would’ve been fine, except that the office was closed for the entire weekend two weekends in a row. Finally, today he waited until 9 to go into work late because we needed this damned package, and of course, since he’s already an hour behind getting to work, the office lady chose today to show up half an hour late.