Promenade business park in Almaty
Promenade is a business park at 44a Abai Avenue that opened on 20 March 2025 in the building of a former shopping and entertainment centre. For Almaty this is a rare case: a retail property was neither demolished nor rebuilt into yet another mall, but turned into an office space with a coworking area and serviced offices. Below is how the format works, who it suits and what to clarify when moving in.
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Building details
- Building class: A
- Address: проспект Абая, 44а
- District: Бостандыкский
- City: Алматы
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There are no open listings for this building right now: owners do not publish every block.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 catalogue listings in the same district, not units in this building.
- 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 ₸
- Офис 90 м2 , 650 000 — 90 м², Бостандыкский, 650 000 ₸
- Офис 90 м2 , 850 000 — 90 м², Бостандыкский, 850 000 ₸
- Офис 165 кв.м. — 165 м², Бостандыкский, 1 500 000 ₸
Other business centres nearby
- Rams Center — Бостандыкский district
- SAT — Бостандыкский district, class B
- Q — Бостандыкский district, class A
- Q — Нура district, class A
See also: the Almaty business centre directory, Nurly Tau business centre, office rent in Almaty.
From shopping centre to business park
The Promenade shopping and entertainment centre opened in 2004. In January 2022 the ground floor of the building partly burned down, the property was looted and closed. Reconstruction began in February 2024: it had to start almost from the steel frame, with repeated checks of the load-bearing structures after the fire. The business park opened on 20 March 2025.
The reconstruction was carried out by the construction holding Mercury Properties; the chief executive of the company is Altynai Konysbayeva. The architectural practice that produced the reconstruction design and the budget of the works are not named in open sources.
The building is three storeys high — a fundamental difference from the towers. In a horizontal property there is no lift bottleneck at the morning peak, the escape routes are shorter, and people walk between floors. The other side of it: the planning grid was inherited from a shopping centre, and not every unit within it fits the familiar office scheme with a corridor and rooms on both sides.
Lease formats
The business park has 46 serviced offices with a capacity of roughly 6 to 40–45 people — ready spaces with furniture and included services, where a team moves in without a refurbishment and without buying equipment. Separately there is a coworking area of 6,942 sq m designed for around 1,600 workstations: by area this is one of the largest flexible office formats in the city.
The meeting infrastructure consists of six meeting rooms and two conference halls. The sources disagree on the capacity of the halls: the publication Ratel states 25 and 50 people, while the English-language version of the property website says up to 70 people. High-speed unlimited internet is, according to the website, included in the rental package, and access to the building and security are declared to be round-the-clock.
The published coworking tariffs differ several times over between catalogues, so we do not quote them here — it makes sense to request the current price directly for a specific number of desks and term.
- 46 serviced offices with a capacity of roughly 6 to 45 people
- a coworking area of 6,942 sq m with around 1,600 workstations
- six meeting rooms and two conference halls
- round-the-clock access and building security
- unlimited internet in the rental package
- parking for 70 cars
Services on site and the surroundings
Inside are Costa Coffee, Popeyes, Del Cappuccino, the Giginova restaurant and a Magnum supermarket, as well as a gym, a dry cleaner, a barbershop and a beauty salon. As of 6 March 2025 the entire retail zone of the property was fully let — that is, the service layer started at the same time as the office one rather than “some day later”, as usually happens in new properties.
Around the building is a dense urban environment: the Central Stadium, the circus and the Mukhtar Auezov Theatre are within walking distance. According to Tengrinews and Informburo there are around ten universities and twenty educational centres in the vicinity, and in total some 175 thousand people live, work or study nearby. For a business that needs a flow of young staff and interns this is a rare combination.
The interior is zoned around motifs of Kazakhstan cultural heritage — this fact was found in only one source, so treat it as a pointer rather than as a description of specific zones.
Three minutes to the metro
The transport position is the strongest feature of the property. Baikonur metro station is 280 metres away, about three minutes on foot; Mukhtar Auezov Theatre station is 740 metres away, about eight minutes. The property website itself states “150 metres to the metro” without naming the station, but even by the conservative estimate of the catalogues the metro is a three-minute walk from Promenade.
According to Tengrinews, seventeen bus routes and six trolleybus routes run along Abai Avenue. For a company where a significant share of staff are students, interns and young professionals without a car, this is the decisive factor: parking for 70 cars against fifteen hundred workstations does not on its own solve the problem of moving people, and cannot solve it.
Around 43 organisations are registered in the business park. For a three-storey property of 14,000 sq m that is a dense occupancy: vacant units come up infrequently, and space here is worth looking for in advance rather than against a specific moving date.
Who it suits and what to clarify
The business park format with serviced offices and a coworking area is aimed at teams for which speed of move-in and a predictable monthly payment matter more than their own fit-out and capital investment. A startup, a project team for the duration of a contract, a regional representative office, a growing sales department — here moving in takes days rather than months and requires no refurbishment budget.
What to clarify first. The class of the building is stated differently in different places: the property website gives Class A, while market assessments give B+. There is no data on the type of air conditioning, the backup power supply or the access control system — ask the leasing department about these points directly, especially if you have server equipment.
And the main thing for this format: what exactly is included in the rate. In serviced offices and coworking spaces the rate usually covers furniture, internet, cleaning and meeting-room hours, but the set differs from tariff to tariff. Ask for a written list of what is included and what is paid for separately: this is exactly where the difference arises between an attractive price in a listing and the final invoice.
Questions and answers
Is Promenade a shopping centre or a business park?
The building opened in 2004 as a shopping and entertainment centre, partly burned down in January 2022 and was closed. After a reconstruction that began in February 2024, the property opened on 20 March 2025 as a business park with offices and a coworking area.
What lease formats are available?
46 serviced offices with a capacity of roughly 6 to 45 people, a coworking area of 6,942 sq m with around 1,600 workstations, six meeting rooms and two conference halls. Internet is, according to the website, included in the rental package.
How far is the metro from Promenade?
Baikonur metro station is 280 metres away, about three minutes on foot. Mukhtar Auezov Theatre station is 740 metres away, about eight minutes. Seventeen bus routes and six trolleybus routes run along Abai Avenue.
What class is the building?
The class is stated differently in different places: the property website gives Class A, while market assessments give Class B+. The total area of the business park is around 14,000 sq m and the building has three storeys.
Is there parking?
According to the property website the car park holds 70 spaces. With around 1,600 workstations this is a limited resource, so parking arrangements for a team are worth discussing separately.
How can I find out the current lease terms?
The published tariffs differ several times over between catalogues, so the price has to be requested for a specific number of desks and term. Send a request and we will collect the current terms for Promenade and comparable offers near Baikonur metro station.
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.