Atlantic Times Square, Monterey Park

What it is

Atlantic Times Square is a mixed-use complex built in 2010 at the intersection of Atlantic Boulevard and Hellman Avenue, condo units stacked above a retail podium anchored by AMC Atlantic Times Square 14 and a 24 Hour Fitness. The property’s current rental-leasing platform lists it as 213 units across 5 stories, while the City of Monterey Park’s page for the property states 210 condominiums over 230,000 square feet of retail.

Is Atlantic Times Square 210 or 213 units?Sources disagree. The city’s page and several resale listings say 210 condominiums; the property’s current rental-leasing platform says 213 units across 5 stories. Neither source explains the gap, and no permit record was available here to resolve it independently.

Ownership costs: HOA fees and what’s covered

Every resale listing found for the building states the same inclusion list, without a dollar figure attached.

The consistency across independent listings is the useful signal here: three unrelated sources describe the same coverage over four years, so the inclusion list is reliable even without a fee number attached. The dollar amount itself sits behind a paywalled compiled report at TransparencyHOA, which confirms a current fee analysis exists without disclosing the figure. Anyone evaluating a specific unit should request the current HOA statement directly from the seller or management before making an offer.

What does the HOA fee at Atlantic Times Square include?Water, trash, fire insurance, 24-hour security, and common-area maintenance, according to resale listings from 2021 through 2025. None of them state the monthly dollar amount.

Recent sales and the price trend

Comparing same-size units closes the gap that isolated sold-price facts leave open.

Across the three near-identical 1,560 to 1,590 sq ft units, closed price per square foot dropped from $568 in 2021 to $541 in 2024 to $511 in mid-2025. The active listing for #411, a 1,360 sq ft two-bedroom, is asking $563 per square foot, well above the $479 that a comparable-size two-bedroom closed at two months earlier. A buyer negotiating from list price on a similarly sized unit has real, recent leverage to point to.

Renting vs. buying here

At $3,500 to $4,000 a month, renting the building’s 1,438 to 1,939 sq ft floor plans requires roughly $140,000 in annual income to clear the standard 30%-of-income guideline, per the property’s own listing math. Buying a similarly sized condo at the recent $511 to $541 per square foot range for 1,560 to 1,590 sq ft units puts a purchase price near $800,000 to $860,000 before HOA and closing costs, financed rather than paid as non-equity rent. That comparison is incomplete until the unpublished HOA fee is added to the ownership side, which is why getting that number from the seller has to come before the two paths are weighed against each other.

Building structure, access, and retail

Owners get underground residential parking that resale listings describe as gated and fenced off from the shopping center’s commercial parking, a real structural separation in a building where thousands of shoppers pass through daily. AMC Atlantic Times Square 14 was still running showtimes as of July 2026, and 24 Hour Fitness remains listed as an on-site amenity. Unit #223, a 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath condo, sold for $860,000 on January 26, 2024, one of the few sales in the building’s history with a clean, dated MLS record attached.

Is residential parking separate from the shopping-center parking?Yes. Multiple resale listings describe the residential garage as underground, gated, and fenced off from the commercial parking used by shoppers and moviegoers.

Known issues and what to verify

Two figures repeated across the building’s own marketing and third-party sources do not match each other, and no permit record in this search resolved either one.

Resident reviews on ApartmentRatings.com, eight reviews total, skew toward operational complaints: one reviewer reported one of the building’s two elevators out of service for close to a year, another described exterior windows going unwashed for years, and a third described the retail plaza’s sound system and occasional live piano performances carrying into residential units from morning into the late evening. A separate reviewer disputed a $7,000 move-out charge that was refunded down to $1,300. Reviews on this platform are submitted in part for reward points regardless of content, and eight reviews is not a large enough sample to call any of this an ongoing pattern.

Are there known maintenance or management complaints at Atlantic Times Square?Yes, on ApartmentRatings.com: a long elevator outage, unwashed exterior windows, retail-plaza noise reaching residential units, and one disputed move-out charge. The review sample is small (eight total) and partly incentivized, so these are leads to verify with current residents, not confirmed ongoing conditions.

The building’s Soundscore, measured by HowLoud through Apartments.com, sits at 68 out of 100 with traffic noise rated “Busy,” the same freeway access every listing promotes as a selling point.

Is 10 Freeway traffic noise noticeable in the residences?The building’s HowLoud Soundscore is 68 out of 100, with traffic specifically flagged as “Busy.” Units facing Atlantic Boulevard are likely to register this more than interior-facing units.

Location, schools, and commute

The building sits in the Alhambra Unified School District; Apartments.com’s school-attendance data lists Monterey Highlands Elementary and Mark Keppel High School as zoned schools, with Emma W. Shuey Elementary listed as a nearby option. Walkability scores 70 out of 100 and drivability 90 out of 100, and the building is within a 10-minute walk of two additional shopping centers besides its own.