Car Lift Outage (since friday) 20/02/12 AM

Bad enough that people had cars trapped in the building Friday afternoon and over the weekend through the continued inconvenience to personal lives and those who work who reside here.

But to add insult to injury, both of the car park the lifts at Alexandra Tower were still off Monday morning, causing yet more disruption to anyone with a car and a job/business to go to.

Ongoing Issues and their Resolution?
Still no response from the Management Company Braemar Estates or Zolfo Cooper (the buildings administrators) about when ANY of the issues affecting this building will be resolved.

Car Lift Outage (no shock there) 17/02/2012

The car lifts at Alexandra Tower Liverpool both went offline again this afternoon and will remain off over the weekend likely.

No shock there, and still no response from the Management Company Braemar Estates or Zolfo Cooper (the buildings administrators) about when ANY of the issues affecting this building will be resolved.

07/02/2012 - Car Outage Update 8pm

According to the concierge, the lift engineer Marciac Lift services were not available to service the lift today owing to a family funeral. As such, the fault is still not fixed and the lift fobs are not working.

This effectively means that the one working lift cannot be called to your floor. The engineer is due out shortly after 8am in the morning (8th) so anyone needing to commute some distance tomorrow can forget it.

Whilst this is obviously not ideal with the engineer not available today, we simply shouldn't be at the mercy of one single lift engineer in any case and credit to Marciac, they have done a lot to keep things going as best they can with the shitty lift/s we have.

Same with the concierge staff.

However, despite not being their fault, it’s not the lift engineer or the concierge staff that make the decisions but they do get earache for it. That responsibility and the direction at which the earache should be given falls firmly to the feet of Zolfo Cooper (the buildings administrators) who oversee the building on behalf of the final owner, which is still Barclays Bank we believe. Secondly, the management firm Braemar Estates who run after the day to day stuff.

They can be contacted on the following:

Neil Roberts

Managing Director Braemar Estates

Richmond House Heath Road Hale Altrincham Cheshire WA14 2XP

0161 929 2300

And

Laith Dajani

Zolfo Cooper, The Zenith Building, 26 Spring Gardens, Manchester, M2 1AB

0161 838 4542

Good luck getting a response as 3 years on, most residents don’t hold much respect for either party. They used to talk a good game and 2 years ago promised that if the lifts needing replacing, than that’s what they (Zolfo) would do, but now emails and phone calls from residents and owner landlords largely go unanswered.

All that can be done is to stop the revolving door of new tenants, unaware of the problems, but whom, in general don’t renew their leases.

Perhaps when City Residential report that people do not want to even view the building owing to its history, maybe then life for all current and future residents will become better.

7th Feb 2012 – cars stuck in lift outage, AGAIN

For the residents of Alexandra Tower, Liverpool, this morning was a cold and misty one with fog still hanging over the Mersey and yet if there wasn’t enough to contend with, the ever failing car park lifts at the building both failed, leaving residents unable to get in or out of the car park.

Yet another incidence of residents being denied use of their cars to go to work, take the kids to school or go about their busy lives or self employment!

That the lifts have been failing like this for 3 years doesn’t seem to motivate the buildings’ owners/management to act when two years ago, assurances were given by Zolfo Cooper, that “if need be, the car lift system will be replaced”. Still waiting on that one....

This blog is now getting hundreds of visits per month, and is currently sitting on the first page of Google for all relevant search terms, right along side the very agents that are marketing this property.

Somehow, and despite a legal obligation to inform potential future residents viewing the building, about its problems, who in all honesty thinks that the letting agents are being upfront in their disclosures of information, which would otherwise have a bearing on the decision whether to live here or not?

Its not so easy to ignore Google when it places this blog (written without spin or misrepresentation of facts) alongside the very estate agents websites marketing the property. This building has so much potential to be a prime residence of the Liverpool waterfront, but with the current management, many feel it is destined to become nothing more than waterfront student accommodation and weekend party rentals as many working professionals are leaving the building, never to renew their leases.

*ps nothing against students but this isn’t a halls of residence or party building, hence the recent notice in the lobby from the buildings management, about noise complaints.

Falling Glass from Alexandra Tower Liverpool - update

This was in the press March 10th 2010

The managing agents of the Alexandra Tower building in Princes Parade were last night ordered to undertake the task after a 100kg glass sheet shattered and fell to the ground.

Liverpool Echo story here in full

Now the funny thing is, nearly two years later and the safety scaffolding around the building, preventing more 100kg glass panels hitting the ground with full force is still up and only yesterday, a letter was delievered to all occupants, that the safety inspection (ordered 2 years ago) is now taking place.

If the bulding was safe from more falling glass, then wouldnt it be logical to remove the eye sore that is a ring of scaffolding around the building?

Another question for would be residents is this:

Do you want to live in a building that when 100kg glass panels fall off it, those that manage and own the building have so much respect for the residents, and their safety that after two years, no progress is made?

If the powers that be dont seem to be too bothered to act and reassure residents about 100kg glass panels falling, do you think that they give a damn about smaller issues which dont mean life or death, but whether you enjoy living in the building?

View from Alexandra Tower Liverpool

This is the lovely view from the river facing floor to ceiling windows of Alexandra Tower Liverpool

Great for NOT being able to see the river view you thought you were getting