Globus mixed-use complex in Almaty
Globus is a retail and office complex at 109v Abai Avenue, on the corner with Auezov Street in the Almaly district of Almaty. Offices here sit alongside a hypermarket, a cinema and a fitness club, and that neighbourhood defines both the strengths and the weaknesses of the address. Below is what is known about the office component, why descriptions of this address are misleading and what to look at when choosing a unit.
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Building details
- Building class: B
- Address: проспект Абая, 109в
- District: Алмалинский
- City: Алматы
- Year built: 2010
- Floors: 12
- Parking: 107 мест
Available space
There are no open listings for this building right now: owners do not publish every block. We will put together options on request — send a request or browse offices in Almaty.
Offices nearby
These are office listings across Almaty, not units in this building.
- Офис на продажу 152 м2, 143 100 000 — 152 м², Бостандыкский , 143 100 000 ₸
- Помещение 400 кв.м. — 400 м², Алматы, 4 248 000 ₸
- трёхуровневый офис 590 кв.м. 3 500 000 тг — 590 м², Бостандыкский район , 3 500 000 ₸
- Офис 150 м2, 1400000 — 150 м², Бостандыкский, 1 400 000 ₸
- Офис 135 м2, 1300 000 — 135 м², Бостандыкский, 1 300 000 ₸
- Офис 90 м2 , 94500000 — 90 м², Бостандыкский, 94 500 000 ₸
Other business centres nearby
See also: the Almaty business centre directory, Nurly Tau business centre, office rent in Almaty.
Offices inside a retail complex
The complex has been operating since 2010 — the year of construction is given by the brokerage catalogues, and it is indirectly confirmed by the opening of the cinema in the building in October of that year. The office area is 18,000 sq m, of which 15,000 sq m is lettable. The class of the building is stated as B, the seismic resistance is 9 points, and layouts are offered in open-plan and cellular formats.
The retail and entertainment part of the complex is the Ramstor hypermarket on the lower level, the Kinopark 4 Globus cinema on the second floor with four screens and 584 seats, and the Nautilus fitness club. In total the complex holds 129 organisations — more than in any other property in our selection.
For an office tenant such an environment brings a very concrete benefit. Lunch, groceries on the way home, a pharmacy, a bank, the gym and the cinema are all covered inside the building, without stepping out onto the street. Staff do not spend an hour on everyday errands and do not leave the address in the middle of the day. The flip side is obvious: the shopper flow, the noise and the load on the parking are a daily background rather than an exception.
Two different pictures of the area and the floor count
On the key parameters of the building the sources diverge more sharply than anywhere else in this selection. The number of floors: the market descriptions give twelve floors, a city directory twenty. The gap is too large to be explained by counting methodology, and open data cannot resolve it.
The total area: the same catalogues state 89,250 sq m, whereas Mercury Properties, which claims the property in its portfolio, publishes 34,032 sq m of total building area and 15,058 sq m of leased space. The difference is almost threefold. The likely explanation is different methodologies: one figure may include the parking and the underground and technical levels, while the other counts only the above-ground part. But no source gives a direct explanation, so we quote both values.
The complex currently has no website of its own: the domain globus-almaty.kz redirected at the time of checking to unrelated resources that have nothing to do with the building. The developer and the architect are not named in open sources. The ceiling height and the typical floor plate are not published either — two parameters without which it is unwise to plan a seating layout blind.
Who occupies the office component
The mix of office residents in the complex is noticeably more solid than one might expect from a Class B building attached to a shopping centre. The head office of Halyk-Life occupies the sixth and seventh floors. The head office of Altyn Bank is on the ground floor. On the fourth floor, in office 401, is PepsiCo Central Asia. The building also houses the IT company Inova Tech.
In terms of banking infrastructure, the complex has branches and cash machines of Halyk Bank and Kaspi Bank. The property names Mercury Properties as its management company and owner — a commercial property investment holding whose listings include Globus both in the shopping centres section and in the business centres section. No independent confirmation of that role could be found; this is the company’s own claim.
The profile of the neighbours — insurance, banks, international FMCG — shows that the mixed format of the building does not prevent head offices from being placed here. What matters more in practice: the presence of large corporate tenants usually means a working pass system and a decent standard of operation on the office floors.
Engineering and parking
The engineering specification of the complex is described by the catalogues; the set of telecom operators deserves a separate mention — six providers in one building give freedom in arranging a backup channel.
- central air conditioning
- natural and supply-and-exhaust ventilation
- surface parking for 90 cars and underground parking for 17, with entry from Abai Avenue and from Auezov Street
- parking is chargeable: 100 tenge an hour, the first five minutes free, free at weekends and on public holidays
- providers in the building: Alma Tel, Jusan, KazakhTelecom, KazTransCom, NLS, Smart-Telecom
- seismic resistance of 9 points, open-plan and cellular layouts
Why descriptions of this address are misleading
Descriptions of this address diverge from one another sharply, depending on where you look. A divergence of this scale does not mean “the building is contentious”, it means that different things are being described. Averaging them out is pointless, and so is relying on them when choosing an office.
The main thing to understand: practically everything written about this address is written by visitors to the shopping centre and the cinema, not by office tenants. Not a single substantive description of the office component could be found: it is all about the range of the shops, the work of the tills, the quality of the goods in the hypermarket and the comfort of the cinema auditorium — that is, about things that have nothing to do with renting an office.
Nevertheless, two signals relevant to a tenant can be extracted from it. The first is ventilation: the complex is stuffy, smells carry from the toilets and the ventilation equipment is noisy. The second is parking: several sources mention independently of one another that it is chargeable and short of spaces. With 107 parking spaces for a whole complex of 129 organisations plus a flow of shoppers this is to be expected, and parking for staff here has to be planned conservatively.
Location and what to clarify before the lease
Transport around the complex is good. Alatau metro station is 0.8 km away — about eight minutes on foot — and Mukhtar Auezov Theatre station is roughly a kilometre, ten minutes. Two stations within walking distance is a rarity for business Almaty, and it makes the address convenient for staff without a car, which matters especially given the limited parking.
The junction of Abai Avenue and Auezov Street is itself one of the busiest in the city, with dense vehicle and pedestrian traffic. For a business that values footfall and a recognisable address this is an advantage; for those who need quiet it is a drawback worth checking by listening to the noise in the specific unit.
Before signing a lease in this building we advise closing five questions, and they are specific to the mixed format. How the entrance and the lift group for the office floors are organised — separately from the shopper flow or together with it; open sources do not clarify this. What the real ceiling height and the measured area of the unit are, since these data are published nowhere. How many parking spaces are allocated to you and on what terms, bearing in mind that the parking is chargeable. How the ventilation works in your unit — given the stuffiness in the complex this is not an idle question. And, finally, the access regime in the evening: the retail component and the cinema work longer than the offices, and the procedure for entry outside working hours is worth fixing.
Questions and answers
What is the Globus complex?
A retail and office complex of 2010 at 109v Abai Avenue, on the corner with Auezov Street. Besides offices it houses the Ramstor hypermarket, the Kinopark 4 Globus cinema with four screens and 584 seats, the Nautilus fitness club and branches of Halyk Bank and Kaspi Bank. In total the complex holds 129 organisations.
How many floors does the building have and what is its area?
The sources disagree. On the number of floors: the market descriptions give twelve floors, a city directory twenty. On the total area: the same catalogues state 89,250 sq m, while Mercury Properties, which claims the property in its portfolio, gives 34,032 sq m with 15,058 sq m leased. The office area is 18,000 sq m and the lettable office area is 15,000 sq m.
Who rents offices in Globus?
The head office of Halyk-Life occupies the sixth and seventh floors, the head office of Altyn Bank is on the ground floor, and PepsiCo Central Asia is on the fourth, in office 401. The building also houses the IT company Inova Tech.
Is there parking and how much does it cost?
Surface parking for 90 cars and underground parking for 17, with entry from Abai Avenue and from Auezov Street. Parking is chargeable: 100 tenge an hour, the first five minutes free, free at weekends and on public holidays. Given the shopper flow of the complex, parking for staff should be planned conservatively.
Why do descriptions of this address diverge so much from one another?
The reason does not lie with the building: practically everything written about this address relates to the shopping centre and the cinema — to the shops, the tills and the auditoriums — rather than to the office component. There are no substantive descriptions of the offices at all, so the offices cannot be judged by them.
How can I find out available space and rents in Globus?
Rents for the office component are not published in open sources, and the complex currently has no website of its own — the former domain redirects to unrelated resources. Send a request and we will collect the current options in the building and comparable offers in the Almaly district.
See also
ТОО «Nurly Tau Realty (Нурлы Тау Реалти)», БИН 171040029589, 050000, г. Алматы, Бостандыкский район, пр. Аль-Фараби, дом 15, н.п. 21г. Тел. +7 702 444 89 98, info@nurlytau.kz.