Russell Park

Location

400 Russell Park, (near the intersection of Russell Blvd. & Orchard Park Drive)

Contact

Trish Whitcomb, Manager

Phone: (530)753-7322

mailto:russellpark@tandemproperties.com

Website

Russell Park on Tandem Property's website

Types of Units

1br/1ba, 1br/1ba with loft, 2br/1ba (3 sizes), 3br/2ba

Price Range

$950 to $1,522 as of September 2011

Russell Park is an on-campus apartment complex that specializes in housing for students with families. It is privately owned and managed by Tandem Properties, but located on the campus of UC Davis. The land lease agreement with the university stipulates that apartments at Russell Park be offered to student families before any other type of tenancy is considered. If they are unable to fill their units, the next on the list of consideration are graduate students, and then undergraduate students.

Like The Atriums, Russell Park is bound by the university's fiscal year so rates are on an academic calendar, and new rates are approved in May of each year. Because the apartments are relatively large for the price, there tends to be a long, long wait list to get in (well over a year in some cases). Turnover is very low compared to other apartments in Davis and this says good things about the complex.

(Last updated May 16, 2012)

We have a 2 bedroom apartment available for immediate move-in! Click here for more info.

Community Playground available for residents of the smaller variety

Storage:

• 7x8s @ $55 per month
  

• 7x11s @ $60 per month
  

  All storage rentals require Last Month's Rent and a $20 security deposit, and you must notify them 30 days before vacating the rental.

Public Transportation - Russell Park is located near the Unitrans D, K, and P/Q bus lines.

Bicycle - Russell Park is on the Northwest corner of the UC Davis campus and on The Davis Bike Loop.

Pedestrian - For recreational adventures, your best bet is through campus to The UC Davis Arboretum. Since this is an older part of town, the closest access to The Greenbelt is at Community Park. For limited grocery, shopping, some services and dining, University Mall is about 2 blocks away. Residents of Russell Park have very close access to Trader Joe's. If you're into gardening, the Experimental College Community Garden is very close.

Parking - Free on-campus parking is available. Parking for guests can be problematic.

ADA Accessibility - Accessible units are available.

1 bedroom x 1 bath1 bedroom x 1 bath with Loft2 bedroom x 1 bath, small2 bedroom x 1 bath, medium

2 bedroom x 1 bath, large3 bedroom x 2 bath

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2009-2-24
Anybody has 3-bedroom apartment here and is looking for summer sublet, please let me know. I may be able to take over your lease and renew for next year. I can be reached at yzhengusc@gmail.com.

2009-07-03 02:37:58   we lived here several year and there used to be far more grad. students and families with small children. Now it seems like there's a move to only accept young undergraduates. Last year and this year virtually everyone new to Russell Park is 18 and lives with roommates. They drive really fast through the parking and hang out outside making lots of noise until 3 or 4 in the morning. The playgrounds are becoming less a place for kids to play and more a place to hang out all night and drink beer. Instead of moms in mini-vans it's now SUVs blasting hip hop in the parking lot. —bradjone

2010-12-26 19:29:17   Is the gas and electricity included? Thanks. —HarrisonM

2011-02-09 23:31:35   No, gas and electricity are not included. Water is. —twblalock

2012-01-03 19:09:22   I've lived here for under a year, and I love it. It's a quiet complex; VERY close to campus (a two-minute walk from Trader Joe's/Cost Plus/Starbucks etc., the ARC, Student Health Center); management is efficient, professional, and friendly; and the one-bedroom floor plan is spacious and well-laid-out. The apartment itself is a little older, so it's not super pretty inside, but it's not ugly or shoddily built like several other places I've seen in Davis (plus it sounds like they're updating at least some of the units starting this summer). They spray frequently for bugs, so Davis's ubiquitous summer roach problem is actually pretty well-managed here (I see some on the sidewalks during the hottest part of summer—never inside my apartment, like I've had happen at previous places—but not as many as I'm used to seeing). I've also never had problems with package delivery, and their four laundry rooms are clean and always working. If your apartment is near/facing the day care center, you'll hear kids screaming and playing from around 10-5 on weekdays, but it is a family complex after all, and it's not too loud anyway.—zombiek

2012-02-19 02:26:49   I shared a 3-bedroom apartment at Russell Park during 2010-2011 and was fairly satisfied.

The top perk about living at Russell Park is the location. There is usually a huge price premium associated with living on-campus, but rent here isn't all too unreasonable. Rent for a 3B/2BA was 1450/mo in 2010 and was bumped up to 1522/mo in 2011-2012. I was told that the rate increase was primarily due to the increased charges for University Police and Fire Department services. As mentioned in the rest of this page, Trader Joes, Starbucks, The Old Teahouse, and a whole bunch of other services are right across the Russell Blvd. at University Mall.

The management is professional and does a good job of handling package deliveries—even during the post-Thanksgiving shipping rush. Sometimes you'll get a UPS InfoNotice slip on your USPS mailbox, other times you won't. Just be mindful of when to expect packages and drop down by the leasing office to pick things up. Maintenance is quick to respond to all service requests—they travel around the complex on electric golf carts.

They used to allow post-docs and campus employees to be leaseholders, but I've heard that they're only allowed to house full-time continuing UC Davis students. That means anyone else would have to be added on with renewing UC Davis students. Once again, the management excels at handling all of the messy paperwork involved in joint leases and can even accomodate transfers other Russell Park units if you decide to ditch your housemates when it comes to renewal time.

There are four laundry rooms, one at each corner of the complex. These are all coin-op when I was there, so be sure to save up some quarters. It was 1.25/wash and 0.75/dry—or something like that. I've had a few instances where my quarters would get stuck and I'd have to shimmy a knife into the slot to get things rolling, but that's to be expected. It would appear that they moved the USPS mailboxes inside the laundry rooms due to safety concerns, but that happened after I left.

It's a rather quiet complex. The worst I've had to endure were crows caw-caw-ing during early Winter mornings. Consider it a free morning wake-up call. —Roarasaurus