Ana M.
Google
I've lived at 1879 for the last 2-3 years and I would say it has its pros and cons.
On the pro side, the apartments and appliances themselves are nice, the staff is friendly, and the maintenance team is competent, professional, and courteous. In my opinion, you are also getting a good price, and amenities like the valet trash are nice. I also didn't experience any issues with my neighbors, so that was good.
On the con side, I do not love the parking app in use for creating permits for visiting guests. You are meant to register them with their vehicle information, which itself is not a big deal, except that you have to do it from the beginning every single time they come. You wind up needing to keep a running record of people's vehicle's makes, models, and license plate numbers, and the administrative hassle of handling parking when someone is casually coming over and you're just trying to finish cooking/cleaning/whatever is a pain. I emailed the application provider (VPP) directly myself multiple times actually about providing a software update to correct for the absence of a feature that is at this point industry standard (that is, the app retaining a log of previous visitor information so you can simply select it to generate a parking pass after the first time you register someone) but they were unresponsive. I work in the IT sector and I strongly believe that 1879 is overpaying for a subpar service provider that has one lone function but doesn't know how to manage the user experience aspect. The application seriously feels like it was created by a gaggle of 22-year-old recent computer science grads at a minor university who wanted to skip gaining work experience and begin their own start-up right out of school.
The other con - and it's the biggest one - is West Airport. I don't know how it is at the other buildings, but in building 4 where I resided right next to the road, the noise was unbelievable. I'm not even exaggerating, folks, when I say there were many times when drivers sounded as loud as a landing helicopter. You would hear clunky 18-wheelers hurtling by, and motorcyclists and douchebags who outfit their vehicles with devices for maximizing the roar of their engines brazenly ripping past. They would do this constantly, and there were many nights when I was woken up at 3 am or some other ungodly hour. I felt really angry, because there are people needing to work in the morning and small children trying to sleep. I'm a solid sleeper in general, and even I was impacted. Now that I'm at my new apartment writing this review, I've been getting 9-11 hours of sleep per night, but at 1879 it was constantly 6-8. My boyfriend, who is a much lighter sleeper than I, would spend whole nights wide awake and get up exhausted. It was the main reason we decided 1879 was off the table when deciding where to move in together. The impact to your quality of life that West Airport has is not to be underestimated.
My advice: If you like 1879, go for it, but at the minimum avoid the two buildings next to West Airport at all costs. That road is a noise nightmare.