Premier Alatau business centre in Almaty
Premier Alatau is the office part of a complex at 105 Dostyk Avenue in which a hotel, a restaurant and a business centre operate at the same time. That combination defines everything: the tenant mix, the character of the descriptions available and the main difficulty with the data on the property. The year of construction of the office building itself is not found in open sources, and almost everything that turns up easily under the name relates to the hotel. Below is what we managed to separate out and confirm.
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Building details
- Building class: B+
- Address: проспект Достык, 105
- District: Медеуский
- City: Алматы
- Floors: 8
- Total area: 19 200 м²
- Parking: 110 мест
Available space
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Other business centres nearby
See also: the Almaty business centre directory, Nurly Tau business centre, office rent in Almaty.
An office building inside a hotel complex
Specialist sources describe the business centre as an eight-storey building with a total area of 19,200 sq m, of which the office area is 11,000 sq m, and surface parking for 110 cars. The class is stated as B+ on the property’s website; the market descriptions give Class B. The discrepancy is on the record and there is no single view.
The complex works as a single site: besides the offices there are a hotel, a restaurant, a conference hall and a bank branch. Among the confirmed banking residents the directories name a bank branch and the representative office of the National Bank of Pakistan — the latter is untypical for a Class B+ building in Almaty and suggests that the address is also used for representative functions.
Of the engineering, seismic resistance of 9 points, natural and supply-and-exhaust ventilation, layouts in two variants — open-plan and cellular — and floor finishes in laminate, tile and carpet are confirmed. The ceiling height, the typical floor plate area, the number and type of lifts and the presence of a backup power supply are not named in the sources at all.
Why the year of construction is a difficult question
The year the office building was commissioned is given neither on the property’s website, nor in the market descriptions, nor on the hotel’s site. The history of the neighbouring hotel block, by contrast, is well documented, and that is precisely why it is so easy to go wrong at this address.
The hotel building was constructed in 1974 according to encyclopaedic sources, or in 1975 according to the city architectural register. Since 1979 it has held the status of an architectural monument of local significance, and refurbishments were carried out in 1997, 2001 and 2014. The general contractor was the Alma-Atazhilstroy trust of the Ministry of Heavy Construction of the Kazakh SSR, the client was Kazsovprof and the design was produced by the KazNIIPIAT institute. The authorship diverges: the encyclopaedia names the architect V. V. Nerovnaya and the chief engineer I. M. Kushnaryov, while the architectural register names the architects I. Kushnaryov, S. Temirgaliev and A. Petrov.
Then the real contradiction begins. The encyclopaedic description speaks of a single nine-storey building of 1974 with a total area of 12,561 sq m, most of whose premises are let as offices and operate as a business centre. The specialist sources, on the other hand, describe a separate eight-storey building of 19,200 sq m. Two explanations are possible: either there are physically two different blocks on the site — the old hotel one and a newer office one — or the sources count the areas of one and the same complex differently. This cannot be resolved from the open data, so we give both versions and do not choose between them.
Where the sources contradict themselves
For this property the contradictions occur not only between different sources but within a single one. The structured data of the property’s website and of the market descriptions give surface parking for 110 cars and local air conditioning. The marketing text on the same site, in the section about the complex, mentions underground parking and central air conditioning.
We go by the structured data: surface parking and local air conditioning. The reason is simple — a table of characteristics is usually filled in from the facts, while an advertising paragraph is written for effect. But a tenant should know about this difference and check both points at the viewing: the presence of underground parking and the type of climate system can be verified in five minutes.
There is a third discrepancy as well — over the class: B+ on the property’s website against B in the market descriptions. For a building of this age and format the difference between B and B+ is determined in practice not by the letter but by the condition of the specific unit, the lifts and the common areas.
Who works here
According to the city directory, some seventy organisations are registered at the address, and their profile is telling. Medical and dental practices, beauty salons, language and dance courses, gyms, travel agencies, a notary, printing houses, a security firm, estate agencies, engineering and IT companies, a bank branch and the representative office of a foreign bank, a restaurant and a canteen.
This is the profile of a building with a high share of consumer services rather than of a classic office building with corporate tenants. For some scenarios that is an advantage: a steady flow of visitors, a recognisable address, ready-made infrastructure next to the workplace. For others it is a drawback: there are many outsiders in the lifts and corridors, and the business environment is diluted.
If you are choosing an office for receiving clients — a salon, courses, a medical or consulting practice — such a setting works in your favour. If you need a closed corporate office with controlled access, this point is worth discussing with the management service separately.
Why descriptions of this address are not about the offices
This is a separate and important feature of the property. A hotel and a business centre operate under one address, and almost everything written about Premier Alatau in open sources describes the hotel part: the rooms, the breakfast vouchers, the state of the carpet and how the televisions work.
For an office tenant that means one thing: the general feel of the address and the quality of the office part are different matters, and the first says nothing about the second. The functions here are kept apart, and they are maintained differently.
On the office part there is almost nothing specific. Of what relates to the shared grounds of the complex: the barrier does not always open on the way out, the condition of the roads on the site is middling, and visitor parking is chargeable at a rate of around 300 tenge an hour. Among the strengths is the location — the panoramic view towards Kok-Tobe and the proximity of cafés and shops. The conclusion for a tenant: the quality of the office part cannot be judged by the general impression of the address, and a personal viewing is needed here.
Location and transport
The building fronts onto Dostyk Avenue in its upper section, closer to the foothills. The nearest surface transport stop, Alatau Hotel, is 137 metres from the entrance. The metro, however, is far off: Abai station is some 2.4–2.5 km away, and on foot that scenario does not work.
This is the classic profile of the upper Dostyk: excellent accessibility by car and by surface public transport, weak accessibility by metro. If a significant part of your staff travel by metro, it is worth honestly calculating the journey time with a change to a bus rather than stopping at the distance on the map.
The surroundings are the residential blocks of the upper part of the city, the hotel and restaurant infrastructure of the complex itself and the view towards Kok-Tobe. The district is quiet and the evening traffic here is easier than in the centre, but the morning descent towards the city at peak hour is dense.
What to clarify before signing the lease
For this building the list of questions is longer than average simply because the open sources either contradict one another or say nothing on half the technical parameters.
- which car park is available to tenants — surface, underground or both, and how many spaces are allocated to the unit
- what air conditioning the specific room has — local split systems or a central system
- the year of construction of the block your unit is in and whether it has been refurbished
- the ceiling height and the area of the unit by measurement
- the number and condition of the lifts, and whether there is a separate lift for the office part
- whether there is a backup power supply
- how the flows of office tenants and hotel guests are separated
- the procedure for driving through the barrier for staff and for guests
Questions and answers
In what year was the Premier Alatau business centre built?
The year the office building was commissioned has not been found — it is given neither by the property’s website, nor by the market descriptions, nor by the hotel’s site. The year of construction of the hotel block is known: 1974 according to encyclopaedic data or 1975 according to the city architectural register, with refurbishments in 1997, 2001 and 2014. This date cannot be transferred to the business centre: the hotel building has a different number of floors and a different status.
How many floors and what area does the building have?
Specialist sources describe an eight-storey building with a total area of 19,200 sq m, of which 11,000 sq m is office space. The encyclopaedic description of the complex, meanwhile, speaks of a single nine-storey building of 12,561 sq m. The contradiction cannot be resolved from the open data — possibly two different blocks on one site are meant.
What class is the building?
The property’s website states Class B+, the market descriptions Class B. The discrepancy is on the record. For a building of this format the practical difference is determined by the condition of the specific unit, the lifts and the common areas rather than by the letter in the description.
What parking does the business centre have?
The structured data of the property’s website and of the market descriptions give surface parking for 110 cars. The marketing text on the same site mentions underground parking — that is not confirmed, and we go by the structured data. Visitor parking on the grounds of the complex is chargeable at a rate of around 300 tenge an hour; a separate known shortcoming is the working of the barrier.
Who rents offices in the complex?
According to the city directory, some seventy organisations are registered at the address: medical and dental practices, beauty salons, language and dance courses, gyms, travel agencies, a notary, printing houses, a security firm, estate agencies, engineering and IT companies, a bank branch and the representative office of a foreign bank, a restaurant and a canteen.
Can descriptions of this address be relied on?
With caution. A hotel and a business centre operate under one address, and most of the descriptions relate to the hotel part — to the rooms, the breakfasts and the state of the furniture rather than to the working of the offices. On the business centre proper there is almost nothing specific, so the quality of the offices here can only be assessed by a personal viewing.
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.