Moskva business centre in Astana
Moskva at 18 Dostyk Street in the Yesil district is a retail and business complex in which the office part coexists with a large retail gallery. The gross area is 21,500 sq m, the lettable area 19,000 sq m, the typical floor 1,680 sq m and the underground car park holds 245 spaces. Below are the make-up of the complex, the engineering, the district and what an office tenant should check in a building with a constant retail flow.
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Building details
- Address: улица Достык, 18
- District: Есиль
- City: Астана
- Rent rate: 7 500 ₸/м²/мес
- Total area: 21 500 м²
- Rentable area: 19 000 м²
- Parking: 245 мест
On-site amenities
- торговая галерея
- 9 ресторанов
- 7 фитнес-клубов
- конференц-центр (конференц-зал на 7-м этаже)
- выставочное пространство
- супермаркет
- визовые центры
- панорамный лифт
- подземный паркинг
Similarly named building: Название совпадает с городом и встречается в объявлениях как «БЦ Москва» и «ТРЦ Москва» — это один и тот же объект на Достык, 18: торговая галерея и офисная часть в одном здании.
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There are no open listings for this building right now: owners do not publish every block.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 the Almaty business centre directory.
Other business centres nearby
See also: the Almaty business centre directory, Nurly Tau business centre, office rent in Almaty.
What the building is
The main difference between Moskva and its neighbours on the street is its mixed function. Both Talan Towers at 16 Dostyk Street and Sankt-Peterburg at 20 Dostyk Street are pure office buildings, whereas here a tenant sits above shops, restaurants and fitness clubs. This is not a trifle: a mixed complex lives to a different timetable, distributes flows of people differently and calculates service charges differently. Before comparing rents, it is worth deciding whether you need this format at all.
The set of internal infrastructure is described in detail: nine restaurants, seven fitness clubs, a conference centre with a hall on the seventh floor, an exhibition space, a supermarket, visa centres and a panoramic lift. For a company this means that lunch, the gym, a meeting for a large group and an event for clients are all handled inside the building, without renting venues elsewhere. The conference centre and the exhibition space are particularly useful to those who regularly run training, presentations or industry gatherings.
The visa centres are a detail that explains the character of the flow. People with no connection to the building's tenants come in every day, and for some companies that is traffic, while for others it is a queue in the lift lobby. If your business lives on walk-in flow, the neighbourhood works for you; if you need a quiet perimeter with predictable access, this is the first thing to check at a viewing.
The gross area is 21,500 sq m, the lettable area 19,000 sq m, the typical floor 1,680 sq m, the ceilings 2.8 metres and the car park underground with 245 spaces. The owner, meanwhile, is named as the Cypriot Abalake Limited, and the area in that description is given as 70,000 sq m — a figure three times larger that apparently describes the whole retail and business complex rather than the office part. Both numbers are worth keeping in mind as different quantities: one relates to the offices, the other to the entire property.
The number of floors diverges sharply in the descriptions: some sources give 27 floors, some 25, while separate descriptions speak of offices 'from the 6th to the 22nd floor'. The last, however, does not contradict the rest: it may be the range of office levels within a taller building. The name adds to the confusion too — the property appears in listings both as 'BC Moskva' and as 'Moskva shopping and entertainment centre', although it is one and the same complex at 18 Dostyk Street: a retail gallery and an office part in one building.
Building services and engineering
In engineering terms the building belongs to the previous generation: natural ventilation and local air conditioning instead of a supply-and-exhaust system and central cooling, ceilings of 2.8 metres. It is this, rather than the location, that explains why market reviews put the property in Class B+ where the owner claims Class A. The practical conclusion for a tenant: look not at the letter in the description but at how the space behaves at your density of occupancy.
Ceilings of 2.8 metres are a figure to verify in a specific unit. That is the height to the slab, and after a suspended ceiling, ventilation ducting and lighting distribution the clear height comes out lower. In a space with dense occupancy and a large depth this is felt, so at a viewing ask to be shown a unit with completed fit-out rather than only one before refurbishment. While there, check how the windows open and what happens to the air in a meeting room without a window by the middle of a meeting: with natural ventilation this is the main constraint.
Parking provision is the weak point of the complex: 245 spaces across 19,000 sq m of lettable area give roughly one space per 78 sq m, whereas at Emerald Tower on Kunayev the ratio is one space per 35 sq m. For a building with a retail gallery, which attracts shoppers in itself, this means competition for parking between tenants' staff and visitors to the shops. Establish not the total number of spaces but how many are allocated to your unit, how that is recorded and whether the allocation holds during peak retail hours.
- natural ventilation
- local air conditioning
- ceilings of 2.8 metres
- underground car park with 245 spaces
- panoramic lift
- conference centre with a hall on the 7th floor
- exhibition space
- retail gallery and supermarket in the building
- 9 restaurants and 7 fitness clubs
- visa centres
Location and transport
The address is 18 Dostyk Street, Yesil district. The neighbours speak for themselves: Talan Towers stands at 16 Dostyk Street, Sankt-Peterburg at 20 Dostyk Street. This is a business street, and from the point of view of the address as an element of reputation there are no questions about Moskva; the questions are about the format of the building, not its location.
Transport accessibility here should be assessed in two modes. The first is an ordinary working day: travel time from the districts where the team lives at the morning and evening peak, not by the map in quiet hours. The second is the retail peak: evenings and weekends, when the gallery is running at full capacity. In the second mode the approach and the parking are loaded differently, and if you work shifts, receive clients after six or work on Saturdays, it is precisely this scenario that has to be checked.
Parking in a building like this is not a technical detail but a hiring factor. At one space per 78 sq m, staff who drive inevitably compete with shoppers from the gallery, and this is only resolved by spaces fixed in the lease or by renting parking nearby. Build that cost into the calculation of the cost per workplace in advance: it does not shrink over time and is not included in the rent by default.
The advantage of the location lies elsewhere. Everything to do with daily life is covered inside the building: the supermarket, nine restaurants, seven fitness clubs, the retail gallery. An employee does not have to travel for lunch or after work, and a client finds it convenient to arrange a meeting — there is somewhere nearby to wait and somewhere to talk. For companies with frequent external meetings this saves more time than it seems.
Who it suits and what to check when choosing a unit
82 organisations work in the building, and a noticeable share of them are shops, restaurants and services of the gallery rather than office tenants. The profile of the neighbours also sets the profile of a suitable resident: the complex suits companies with a walk-in client flow — service, consulting, travel and educational businesses — as well as those to which infrastructure a step from the workplace matters. At the same time a large plate of 1,680 sq m makes it possible to house a whole division on one level, which is unusual for buildings with a retail function.
Who the building suits less well follows from the same logic. A company that needs a closed perimeter, a quiet floor and a predictable lift at nine in the morning should check all of that in person: the constant flow of visitors to the gallery and the visa centres is part of the property's daily life. That is not a defect of the building but its format, and the decision depends on whether it matches your way of working.
At a viewing the main thing is the flows. Look at how visitors to the gallery and office staff are separated: does the office part have its own entrance and its own lifts, how is access control arranged, where does the boundary between the retail and office zones run, what happens at the weekend when the gallery is open and the offices are closed, and how access is organised then for those who come in to work. Check the lift lobby separately at the morning peak and at lunchtime — that is when the load from the gallery and from the offices coincides.
The second set of checks is commercial. Ask what is included in the rent and what counts as extra, how the service charge is calculated, how many parking spaces are allocated to the unit and on what terms, who is responsible for servicing the air conditioners. Then the terms of the lease: the term and renewal, the step of indexation, the security deposit, the procedure for an early exit, the fate of the non-removable improvements. In a building of mixed format it is worth additionally establishing the rules for noisy works and the delivery schedule: they are usually built around the gallery's timetable.
What to compare before deciding
The first thing to do with the rent is not to take it as current. The quoted price of 7,500 ₸ per sq m per month is given without a publication date, and the property is absent from the market analysis of 03.10.2025, so the figure is not confirmed as up to date. Against 10,000–15,000 ₸ at buildings of comparable size it looks outdated and apparently relates to an earlier state of the market. The practical conclusion is simple: treat it as a guide to the lower bound, and request the real price, the step of indexation and the make-up of the service charges from the owner before negotiations.
A separate note on the service charge. In a building with a retail gallery it depends noticeably on how the costs of the common areas are split between the offices and the retail: the gallery consumes more energy on lighting and climate control, wears the finishes of the common areas faster and requires more cleaning. Before comparing Moskva with a pure office building on rent, request the structure of the charge and, if possible, the actual bills for the past year.
The second direction of comparison is engineering. Natural ventilation, local air conditioning and ceilings of 2.8 metres put the property in a different category from buildings with a supply-and-exhaust system and central cooling. If you have dense occupancy, a server room or meeting rooms without windows, the difference will be felt in the first hot month, and for that case it is worth taking at least one building with central climate control into the shortlist — to understand what that difference costs in money.
The third is parking and flows. The ratio of one space per 78 sq m against one space per 35 sq m at Emerald Tower is a specific sum that you either pay out for spaces elsewhere or pass on to your staff. Compare the pure office buildings on the same street — 16 Dostyk Street and 20 Dostyk Street — on this parameter and calculate the full cost per workplace rather than the price per metre. It is this calculation, not the rent, that usually decides the choice between a mixed complex and a classic business centre.
Questions and answers
Is Moskva a business centre or a shopping centre?
Both: it is one property at 18 Dostyk Street where a retail gallery and an office part sit in one building. In listings it appears both as 'BC Moskva' and as 'Moskva shopping and entertainment centre' — this is one and the same complex.
What is the area of the building and what is the typical floor?
The gross area is 21,500 sq m, the lettable area 19,000 sq m, the typical floor 1,680 sq m and the ceilings 2.8 metres. In the description that names the owner — the Cypriot Abalake Limited — the area is given as 70,000 sq m, but that figure apparently relates to the whole retail and business complex rather than to the office part.
How many floors does the building have?
The data diverge: some descriptions give 27 floors, some 25, and separate sources speak of offices from the 6th to the 22nd floor. The last does not contradict the rest — it may be the range of office levels within a taller building. Verify the exact number of floors and the number of your level against the documents.
Is there parking?
An underground car park with 245 spaces. Across 19,000 sq m of lettable area that is roughly one space per 78 sq m, whereas at Emerald Tower the ratio is one space per 35 sq m. Since the retail gallery attracts visitors, the number of spaces allocated to the unit should be fixed in the lease.
What is in the building besides offices?
A retail gallery, a supermarket, 9 restaurants, 7 fitness clubs, a conference centre with a hall on the 7th floor, an exhibition space, visa centres and a panoramic lift. In all, 82 organisations work in the building, a significant part of which belong to the gallery rather than to the office part.
How can I find out current availability and rents?
Owners do not publish some units openly, and the quoted rent of 7,500 ₸ per sq m per month is given without a date and is not confirmed as current. Send a request and we will collect the current options in the building and comparable offers on Dostyk and nearby.
See also
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