Beacon Harbor Point

I am a current residence at the Beacon Harbor Point, and while the apartments and amenities are just gorgeous, you can’t always judge a book by its cover. It may seem like the right place to live but if you want quite comfortable living i am telling you the honest truth, look elsewhere.
I’ll start with the many new construction issues. There are many issues, not just a few and some are deemed unfix-​able which is why we have to leave the apartment we have been living in for the last 5 months. The unfix-​able issue is through their vent system. This isn’t just our apartment, this is the entire building (we have been in other apartments where we and their staff have heard the noise) including the hallways. In our apartment we do not sleep because of the metal on metal vents banging against each other due to even the littlest amount of wind, and remember this building is on the water so wind is a normal occurrence here. After 5 long months of sleepless nights, many in face meetings with management, emails and phone calls this has been just recently been deemed UNFIX-​ABLE by the Beacon team.
The hallway ventilation also have issues, if windy enough a whistle type noise is present and loud enough to sound like a fired up tea kettle ready to explode — i dare you to try and sleep. Again this is a major fix and while i’m not sure its something even being worked it should be on the top of their priority list. It’s out of control loud and my guess will also be deemed as unfix-​able. I believe the management company needs to get a second opinion with another contractor — these types of items CAN be fixed i just don’t think 1. they want to spend the money or 2. the contractors are just lazy.
If you are under the age of 25 living in this very «urban» lifestyle may suit you but for us in our mid-​thirties it doesn’t. I had no idea Sign of the Whale was a full blown night club until we were already moved in. I am not from this area and did not know this restaurant converted to a place where shot girls and DJ’s were the life of the party. If you want to sleep any time before 2am on a Friday or Saturday — THINK AGAIN! I am commenting on the loud music and ridiculous drunk people leaving the club, the «oh so cool guys» revving up their motorcycles to drive home drunk at 2am and this is all in the middle of winter! Just imagine this place with a full blown roof top open in the summer — if you can avoid it then i would strongly advise you to stay away. They can offer you an apartment in the other tower but then you need to worry about Paloma and Crab Shell across the water, yes you can hear their music at the Beacon. The management can only offer to you one solution, call the non-​emergency line for the Stamford Police, and we do but we have gotten absolutely nowhere with it.
The Beacon provides you with a garage parking spot however the garage is 5 days out of 7 days flooded. Emails go out on a weekly basis to advise you to «avoid» certain areas as they are practically under water. It’s nice to not have to clean snow off your car in the winter but when it rains it rains in the garage too, what a joke!
For the most part the front desk staff have been outstanding, i did have an issue with one front desk associate on a night there was a tremendous amount of noise, where he even felt it necessary to screen my calls and answer the phone with a snotty «hello». I was shocked because the service in this area has always been top notch. I even had to ask was this the Beacon front desk? He replied «yea i just knew it was you»? Seriously? I pay the rent on time in full each month even with the Beacon unable to meet their side of a dual signed contract and yet this is the treatment i receive? We are leaving so at this point i feel it not even necessary to contact management anymore to express my dis-​satisfaction.
I’ll leave you with this. I selected a beautiful apartment in a new luxury building paying TOP MARKET PRICING to incur sleepless nights that are beyond stressful and a Beacon team who CANT do anything about it. They offered us another apartment in their messed up building for MORE MONEY than we are already paying, really helpful right? We decided to take a transfer to another BLT building so we didn’t have to pay for additional application/​administration fees for the approval process. We do however have to pay to move again, truck boxes days off work many weeks of re-​organizing etc and the Beacon has offered us nothing in return as far as compensation. Nothing, nothing for 5 months of sleepless nights, nothing for the aggravation and looking for countless hours for another place to live and nothing to get us to the new place. Good luck if you do decide to take the plunge and live here!

Single best place I’ve ever lived. The views are beautiful. The gym is amazing. The hardwood floors and the quality of the fixtures everything is awesome… Fantastic place to live and I’m glad I waited! You will love it too!

I am a big fan of the Beacon and the community that BLT has created.
This has become an amazing area of Stamford. It has the feel of a vacation area, with a simple walk to the Train station. With a mixture of all ages of residents, and many cute dogs, everyone seems to be very happy at The Beacon, Harbor Point.
I am a resident of the Beacon. this is my first adjustment to apartment building living. It has been a bit of an adjustment. Coming out of a beautiful home, with a yard and space etc, this is a very new style of living. The Beacon has very cool amenities, that always give residents something to do. The gym is incredible, the pool is great, the roof top has views of the Long Island sound and NYC. The boardwalk and marina, feels like you are in FL.
I love having the restaurants and amenities here. Corbo’s deli, is great, to grab fast bites to eat on the go. Paloma Restaurant, is great to go for a more formal dinner with friends, and sit right on the boardwalk. The new Bear burger is about to open, and a great Lobster fun casual place will open 2016. They have even been sending a lobster food truck down on the weekends.
The Sign of the Whale roof top, is a great place to relax and enjoy a beautiful night. The food at SOTW, is great, and the inside is more formal. Sunday football, seems to be building and getting exciting. We are all eagerly awaiting the grand opening of Fortina. This restaurant is going to draw a huge crowd of foodies and hipsters. All these options, add to the excitement of living here. The events in Harbor point also help to create the lively environment here.
Yoga events on the boardwalk, art and craft fairs, car shows, concerts, movies in the park, running races, Equoinox Gym does Spin events on the SOTW roof, and many more cool events.
Like any new construction, the building has had some issues to address. The Management of the building and Staff, always seems to promptly address these issues. They have a great notification system, that sends alerts to address anything going on in the building. The staff here, is extremely friendly and helpful.
Living here, is like living in a high-​end Hotel, if they only had room service…
Having the restaurants and deli near buy, make it so nice to walk and enjoy these venues. Yes on the weekends, there is excitement, people, energy, and a great city vibe, this is why people choose to live here. This is a LIVE, WORK, PLAY environment…
I highly recommend this area to anyone who is looking for this type of active, lively lifestyle.

1 Harbor Point Grievances
1. Building did not register with Post Office therefore all forwarded mail was delayed by nearly three months. I know this because I spoke to the Postmaster General in Hartford.
2. Pool promised when we moved in at end of May but was not open for three weeks.
3. Whenever I go down to the pool in the morning, I have to search for someone to open gate even though it’s supposed to be open at 9:00 am.
4. Pool party a few weekends ago was out of control. Apparently, a birthday was being celebrated with a large number of people screaming, jumping in pool, throwing items off balconies while the rest of the tenants are told they need a wrist band and can only have two guests
5. Wall outside our apartment has needed painting since we move in. Despite several requests by me, it is still unpainted.
6. Animals urinating in the elevator even though the building does not allow pets
7. Animal feces on property
8. Elevators locked for movers even on a Sunday. It is not uncommon to wait 5 minutes for an elevator
9. Recent repairs have resulted in having to walk up or down flights of stairs to get to elevator. Back problems do not allow me to do stairs which is why we moved into an elevator building.
10. Parties going on at all hours of the night on balconies right outside my bedroom window. When you call the front desk, a service answers with no resolution
11. North Building lobby smells like sewage
12. No water pressure when we moved in. After complaining, a maintenance crew discovered that the elements in the water heater were caked with dirt. This should have been addressed before we moved in.
13. Noise and music from surrounding restaurants until 2:00 am make it impossible to sleep
Motorcycles, hot rods with no mufflers till 3AM almost every night!
Train whistle at 4AM
Sign of the Whale power washes their roof top deck at 7AM almost every morning. Cant get 4 hours of continuous sleep for the last 4 months
14. Spinning, yoga and other events on the rooftop of Sign of the Whale with shouting on bullhorns on Saturday and Sunday mornings have woken us up from already deprived sleep.
15. We have one reserved parking spot but already my husband has to park a distance from elevator when he comes home from work because regular spots are occupied. He has been unable to park on P2 near elevator because that has been under construction.
16. Gate to garage is often left open compromising security.
17. Apartment windows are filthy.
18. Apartment across the hall is a model apartment which we were not aware of when we moved in. Consequently, that door opens and closes numerous times per day in addition to people chatting right outside our door.
19. In the morning, elevator floors always have debris on them.
20. You can hear conversations from other apartments through the bathroom vents.
21. Beacon has not made any attempts to provide a quiet, enjoyable living experience that is a prerequisite to any rental.
22. The details within the apartment make home Depot look high end.

beautiful waterfront apartments right on the boardwalk. right next door to bars, and restaurants, and a huge park. very impressed with the amenities too. great for people with pets, or runners that like to jog by the water.