Koktem Towers business centre in Almaty
Koktem Towers is a thirteen-storey Class B+ business centre at 180 Dostyk Avenue in the Medeu district. The building is compact: around 5,000 sq m of total area with a typical floor of 396 sq m, so one floor is one medium-sized tenant in its entirety. The main difficulty with this property lies not in the data but in the name: Koktem Grand stands nearby with the same management company, and the sources mix the two up regularly. Below is what applies specifically to number 180.
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Building details
- Building class: B+
- Address: проспект Достык, 180
- District: Медеуский
- City: Алматы
- Year built: 2005
- Floors: 13
- Total area: 5 148 м²
- Rentable area: 4 752 м²
- Parking: 116 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There are no open listings for this building right now: owners do not publish every block.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.
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- 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.
What is known about the building
The year of construction is 2005 and the building has thirteen floors. The number of floors is confirmed independently: it is given both by the market descriptions and by the city directories. The year comes only from one body of market data, so it has no independent second confirmation.
For a building of this height the areas are modest: 5,148 sq m of total area, 4,752 sq m lettable and 396 sq m on a typical floor. That is substantially less than at its neighbours along the avenue, and it defines the format: thirteen compact floors instead of a few large plates. For a small team this is convenient — you can take a whole floor and get your own level with a separate lift lobby. A company of seventy people will have to sit either densely or across two floors.
Of the technical characteristics the catalogues give a ceiling height of 2.8 metres and seismic resistance of 9 points. Both values come from the same linked pair of sources. Ceilings of 2.8 metres are noticeably lower than in new Class B+ buildings, where the norm is closer to three metres, and it is something you notice in an open-plan space with dense seating.
Do not confuse it with Koktem Grand
This caveat matters more than it seems, because it is easy to go wrong here even when reading specialist catalogues. Koktem Grand is a different building; it stands at 210 Dostyk Avenue, has sixteen floors and a different class. What they have in common is the management company, which is why the descriptions, photographs and characteristics of the two properties are regularly mixed up in directories. The registered address of the management company is precisely number 210, and that confuses the sources further.
There are other namesakes as well. At 176 Dostyk Avenue stands a separate nine-storey business centre, Koktem-2 — a neighbouring building, not ours. Separately there are the Koktem Grand Residential Apartments and the Koktem Grand hotel in Taldykorgan. Finally, Almaty has a microdistrict and a park of the same name, so a general search on the word “Koktem” brings up a great deal that is beside the point.
A practical piece of advice: check the house number in every listing. The city directories keep our building at 180 Dostyk under the short name “Koktem” — that is the correct entry, even though the market descriptions and the maps use the spelling Koktem Towers.
Who manages the building
The managing organisation is K-Towers Realty LLP. Here the data is more reliable than usual: the company is confirmed independently both by a business directory and by a commercial register of legal entities, and its contact email address appears in directories precisely as the leasing contact for Koktem Towers.
The company’s registered address is 210 Dostyk Avenue, that is, the neighbouring Koktem Grand building. This directly confirms an already known fact: one management structure services both properties. For a tenant the conclusion is a positive one — the building is not let directly by the owner but serviced by a specialist organisation with a portfolio of two properties, and there is someone to address operational questions to.
No website of its own could be found for the business centre. The domain that the catalogues call the official one does not resolve; the management company’s site does not open either — last time it returned a self-signed certificate, and on a repeat check the domain does not resolve at all. In other words, there is currently no primary source of data on the building in the public domain, and everything that is known comes from catalogues and directories.
Parking: what is declared and how it actually is
According to the catalogues, the building has an underground car park for 46 cars and surface parking for 70. In total 116 spaces per 4,752 sq m of lettable area — by Almaty standards a decent ratio, roughly one space per forty square metres.
In practice the picture is different, and it is worth knowing in advance. The parking problem is a persistent one: it is chargeable, the rate is around 300 tenge an hour, payment is accepted only through a single app with no alternatives, and the capacity does not match the number of people working in the building. Separately, security blocks off the free street spaces along the avenue, which closes down the option of leaving the car outside as well.
This is exactly the case where the catalogue figure and the tenant’s experience diverge not because the figure is wrong but because there are fewer spaces than cars. The question of how many spaces are allocated to the unit and how payment works should be asked before signing, not afterwards.
The restaurant on the thirteenth floor
The top floor of the building houses the Primavera restaurant, with a panoramic view over Kok-Tobe and the city. Its presence is confirmed independently — by a separate entry in the city directories.
For a tenant this is not decoration in a description but a working tool. Negotiations and meetings that are awkward to hold in your own meeting room can be moved a floor up without leaving the building. The lunch question for staff is covered too, though not in the most economical way.
The other side is worth bearing in mind: a restaurant on the top floor means a guest flow through the same lifts as the office one, especially at lunchtime and in the evening. For a building of thirteen floors with a limited number of lifts that is noticeable.
Who sits here
The tenant mix according to the available data is varied and broadly businesslike. Independently confirmed is the representative office of the airline Uzbekistan Airways on the fourth floor, office 43: its location is confirmed both by the directory and by the airline’s own page.
Among the rest the sources name the law firm Sayat Zholshy & Partners, the pharmaceutical company Octapharma, the telecoms company RETN, the Association of Professional Accountants and Auditors of Kazakhstan, the consultancies Komek Consulting and Tabys Consulting, the retailers reStore.kz and HOLZ HOUSE, and several educational and certification organisations.
The profile reads clearly: legal and accounting services, consulting, industry associations, representative offices. This is an address for companies to which a business environment and a meeting function matter, rather than a large open-plan floor. The usual caveat applies: leases end and are renewed, and the mix given here reflects the open data at the time of collection.
The main weak point — the windows do not open
The general feel of the building is a rather good one. But behind it sits a specific and persistent problem, and one that deserves to be examined separately.
The main weak point is the ventilation. The windows in the building are fixed and cannot be opened, which leaves the rooms stuffy in summer and cold in winter for lack of any fresh air supply. The problem is a persistent one and shows up in different seasons, so it is not a one-off. Second are the lavatories: one lavatory per floor cannot cope with thirty to fifty people working there, and consumables are replenished irregularly. Third is the awkward pedestrian entrance along a narrow path between the trees. The manner of the security and the reception desk is inconsistent: brusque in places, perfectly polite in others.
Among the strengths are the cleanliness and comfort of the common areas, the well-considered layout, the view from the windows of the upper floors and the Primavera restaurant. The ventilation is simple to check and worth checking before the lease: come to the specific unit on a warm day after lunch and spend twenty minutes there.
Location and what to clarify
The building fronts directly onto Dostyk Avenue, one of the main transport axes of the city. The nearest stop is 122 metres away, at the junction of Dostyk and Zholdasbekov Street. The metro, however, is far off: Abai station is some 1.7–1.9 km away, about twenty-two minutes on foot. In other words, the “arrive by metro and walk” scenario works poorly here, and the transport accessibility for staff deserves a separate look.
Of the engineering, the sources state central air conditioning and supply and exhaust ventilation, with internet from four operators. Not found at all: the developer and the architect, the number of lifts, the presence of a backup power supply, any environmental certificates. The list of amenities that the catalogues give for this address includes a swimming pool, a cinema and a hotel — for a building of 5,000 sq m that is clearly a list of the surrounding infrastructure of the district rather than of what is inside, and we do not reproduce it in that form.
Before signing the lease it makes sense to find out: how many parking spaces are allocated to the unit and how parking is paid for, how the fresh air supply is arranged in the specific room given the fixed windows, whether there is backup power, how many lifts are in service and what the access regime is in the evening and at weekends.
Questions and answers
How does Koktem Towers differ from Koktem Grand?
They are different buildings. Koktem Towers stands at 180 Dostyk Avenue, has thirteen floors and around 5,000 sq m of total area. Koktem Grand is at 210 Dostyk Avenue and is noticeably larger. The properties share a management company, which is why directories regularly mix their data. Separately there are the Koktem-2 business centre at 176 Dostyk, the Koktem Grand Residential Apartments and the Koktem Grand hotel in Taldykorgan.
In what year was Koktem Towers built and what class is it?
The year of construction is 2005 and the class is B+. Both characteristics come from one body of market data, so they have no independent second confirmation. The thirteen floors are confirmed independently by the market descriptions and by the city directories.
Who manages the building?
K-Towers Realty LLP. The company is confirmed independently by a business directory and by a commercial register of legal entities, and its contact is given in directories as the leasing contact for the building. The company’s registered address is 210 Dostyk Avenue, that is, the neighbouring Koktem Grand building: one structure services both properties.
How many parking spaces does the building have?
According to the available data, an underground car park for 46 cars and surface parking for 70. At the same time spaces are persistently short, entry is chargeable at a rate of around 300 tenge an hour, and security blocks off the free street spaces along the avenue.
What are the weak points of the building?
The main one is the ventilation: the windows in the building are fixed, in summer it is stuffy and in winter cold for lack of any fresh air supply. The problem holds up persistently. Next are the shortage of lavatories per floor and the irregular replenishment of consumables, the awkward pedestrian entrance and the chargeable parking. Among the strengths are the cleanliness of the common areas, the view from the windows of the upper floors and the Primavera restaurant on the thirteenth floor.
How can I find out available space and rents?
The building has no working website of its own — the domains of the business centre and of the management company do not open, so an up-to-date list of vacant units is not published in the public domain. Send a request: we will ask the management company for options and put together comparable offers on Dostyk Avenue.
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.