Green Tower business centre in Almaty
Green Tower is a twelve-storey building completed in 2018 at 192/2 Dostyk Avenue, near the junction with Al-Farabi Avenue. It has the greatest ceiling height among the business centres of this part of the city and a tenant mix unusual for a commercial property: the city maslikhat, an international flexible office operator and a panoramic restaurant on the top floor. Below is what the sources confirm and what is worth checking.
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Building details
- Building class: A
- Address: проспект Достык, 192/2
- District: Медеуский
- City: Алматы
- Year built: 2018
- Floors: 12
- Total area: 11 000 м²
- Rentable area: 8 000 м²
- Parking: 123 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There are no open listings for this building right now: owners do not publish every block.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 115 кв.м. — 115 м², Алматы, 1 050 000 ₸
- Офис 660 кв.м. — 660 м², Алматы, 9 900 000 ₸
- Офис на Аренду — 90 м², Алматы, 750 000 ₸
- Офис на аренду в самом престижном блоке Нурлы-Тау — 116 м², Алматы, 1 740 000 ₸
- Презентабельный офис в Аренду — 423 м², Алматы, 3 500 000 ₸
- Офис 107 м² в БЦ Nurly Tau: статус на проспекте Аль-Фараби — 107 м², Алматы, 1 100 000 ₸
Other business centres nearby
See also: the Almaty business centre directory, Nurly Tau business centre, office rent in Almaty.
The building and its parameters
The total area is 11,000 sq m, the lettable area 8,000 sq m and the typical floor plate 750 sq m. Seismic resistance is stated at 9 points. The building has central and local air conditioning and natural and supply-and-exhaust ventilation. Internet is provided by KazakhTelecom, NLS and SmartNet. The car park has 88 underground and 35 surface spaces, which for 8,000 sq m of lettable area is one of the best figures in the area.
Class A has been assigned on the basis of market assessments. The website of the property does not state a class at all and calls the property an administrative building. The developer, the architect and a professional management company are confirmed nowhere — when moving in this is worth bearing in mind in questions about operations.
A floor of 750 sq m is compact by the standards of new buildings, and this determines the type of tenant. A company of 40 to 60 people takes a whole floor and gets its own lift lobby and its own perimeter — something available only to a large tenant in a building with floors of fifteen hundred metres. For representative offices and legal and consulting practices, such privacy is often more important than the total area of the building.
Ceilings of 4.8 metres — and what to do with them
The declared ceiling height is 4.8 metres. That is substantially more not only than the typical three metres, but also than the 4.2 metres that count as high by Almaty standards in new Class A buildings. The parameter is stated in market descriptions; no separate confirmation from the owner could be found, so the level in a specific unit is worth checking with a tape measure at the viewing.
If the height is confirmed, it opens up scenarios unavailable in an ordinary office. A mezzanine level inside the unit — meeting rooms or a break-out zone above the working floor without increasing the leased area. Exposed services as an element of the interior instead of a suspended ceiling. A genuine double-height space in the common area. For studios, design practices, showrooms and representative offices with an exhibition function this is a rare opportunity.
The height also has a price that is worth calculating in advance: the volume of air that has to be heated and cooled grows proportionally. Clarify how the service charges are calculated — by area or by volume — and what capacity of climate equipment is allowed for the unit.
- underground parking for 88 cars and surface parking for 35
- central and local air conditioning
- natural and supply-and-exhaust ventilation
- ceiling height of 4.8 metres, a typical floor of 750 sq m
- seismic resistance of 9 points
- telecom operators: KazakhTelecom, NLS, SmartNet
A mixed tenant line-up
The eleventh floor of the building houses the maslikhat of the city of Almaty — the representative body of the city government. For a commercial business centre this is unusual and adds a representative status to the address, while also meaning heightened requirements for the access regime and a predictable flow of visitors on certain days.
The eighth and ninth floors are occupied by the international flexible office operator Regus; its space includes a kitchen, a shower, a summer terrace and a salt room. On the twelfth floor is The Monkey resto-bar with a panoramic view of the mountains and of part of Al-Farabi Avenue. Among the office tenants listed at the address are Front Base (seventh floor), Longevity, Redfern Partners, Universal Energy Qazaqstan, Hexonic, SWG, Inditex, Weir Minerals Kazakhstan, Vitis Advisors Group and Nord Minerals. In total there are around thirteen organisations in the building.
The practical benefit of such neighbours is simple. The presence of Regus means a growing team can be expanded month by month without renegotiating the lease for the whole unit; the restaurant on the top floor covers business lunches and meetings without leaving the address.
About the name and the green certification
The name of the building raises a natural question about environmental certification, and it has to be answered directly: there is no confirmation of LEED or BREEAM certification for this building in open sources. The mentions of such certificates that a search for “Green Tower” returns relate to another property of the same name in Astana — a separate building with a different address and different parameters.
Data on the type of glazing, energy-efficient solutions and backup power supply for the Almaty Green Tower could not be found either; there are, meanwhile, mentions of power interruptions. If continuity of supply is critical for you — a server room, round-the-clock support, trading operations — the question of a backup source has to be asked before signing and answered in writing.
The name of a building is marketing, not a certificate. The real economics of operation are shown by the utility bills and the structure of the service charges: request them for the last twelve months for a comparable unit.
The Dostyk cluster and what to compare with what
Green Tower stands inside a dense cluster of business addresses on Dostyk Avenue at the junction with Al-Farabi. The neighbours are Koktem Grand at 210 Dostyk, a complex of several blocks of the same class, and Koktem Towers at 180 Dostyk. At the same house number without an index is the Triumph business centre. Such a concentration means that an enquiry about one building should almost always be turned into a comparison of three or four neighbouring ones.
The nearest surface transport stop is Dostyk Avenue / Al-Farabi Avenue, 96 metres away, that is, literally at the entrance. With metro stations it is more complicated: for Abai different estimates give between 1.5 and 2.1 km and about twenty-four minutes on foot. The discrepancy is noticeable, but the conclusion does not change with it: the daily scenario here is the car or the bus, not the metro.
When comparing neighbouring buildings, look at three figures at once: the rent, the service charges and the number of allocated parking spaces. In this cluster the car park of Green Tower looks like a strong point, and all else being equal it may be what determines the final cost per workplace.
Questions and answers
What class are the offices in Green Tower?
Class A according to market descriptions. The website of the property does not state a class and calls the building administrative. The total area is 11,000 sq m, the lettable area 8,000 sq m, there are twelve floors and the year of completion is 2018.
Is it true that the building has 4.8-metre ceilings?
That height is stated in market descriptions; confirmation from the owner could not be found. It is noticeably more than typical values even for new Class A buildings, so the level in a specific unit is worth checking at the viewing.
Does the building have a LEED or BREEAM certificate?
No, no confirmation of environmental certification for the Almaty Green Tower was found in open sources. The mentions of LEED and BREEAM in search results relate to another building of the same name in Astana.
Who rents offices in Green Tower?
The eleventh floor houses the maslikhat of the city of Almaty, the eighth and ninth floors are occupied by the flexible office operator Regus, and on the twelfth floor is The Monkey resto-bar. Among the office tenants are Front Base, Redfern Partners, Weir Minerals Kazakhstan, Nord Minerals and other companies.
How do I get to Green Tower and is there parking?
The nearest surface transport stop is Dostyk Avenue / Al-Farabi Avenue, 96 metres away. Abai metro station is between 1.5 and 2.1 km away depending on the source. The car park has 88 underground and 35 surface spaces.
How can I find out available space and rents?
Owners do not publish some units openly. Send a request and we will collect the current options in the building and in the neighbouring business centres on Dostyk Avenue. The search is free for tenants.
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