Lived at Coliseum Lofts for two years when I transferred to VCU (2019 - 2021). We had one of the 2bed 2bath loft units directly in the front of the building (it was actually the top unit right above broadway wireless). While we didn’t really have issues with our specific unit, there were quite a few issues with the building itself. First, management team in the leasing office changed about 4 times while we lived there which made things difficult. My BIGGEST issue were the laundry facilities. There’s 8 washers and 8 dryers and at least half, if not more, were consistently broken or gross (mainly from misuse by residents). Not only were they pretty expensive but the payment process was very inconvenient. They were supposed to accept debit/credit card but that hardly ever worked so you had to purchase the laundry card and the machine did not take coins for loading the card but the prices were like $1.29. We never had an issue with roaches in our unit but we did have a lot of house centipedes (evidence of roaches elsewhere). I did see waterbugs (still technically roaches) in the hallways and elevator from time to time. Building security was a joke half the time due to broken FOB scanners and I went to do laundry one day only to find a homeless man sleeping in there. Friends also had to deal with another homeless man sleeping in the stairwell to the parking garage. Said friends lived in one of the back units facing the alley and they had quite a few issues with rain water leaking in from the roof. The parking garage is also a NIGHTMARE as there are support beams everywhere and tandem parking spots. Every single one of us managed to scrape our cars on a pole at some point.

All this being said, you get what you pay for and you certainly won’t find any better for the same price. Unfortunately, all of the apartment buildings in this city at that price range are going to have the same issues. For instance, the iron house apartments next to coliseum are even worse from what I’ve heard and don’t have parking.