Work, live and eat at one address
Shumuk House stands on Colville Street, off Kampala Road, in the middle of the commercial district.
Shops, food and a salon at street level. Offices in the middle of the building. Springs Apartments on the floors above them. The banks, Parliament Avenue and City Hall are all a few minutes on foot, the block has three ways off it, and there is tenant parking on site. Office suites are available now, from one room up to a whole floor.
- Address
- Plot 2 Colville Street, off Kampala Road
- Available
- Office suites, shops and apartments, up to a whole floor
- Banking
- Stanbic, Absa and the ATMs, three minutes on foot
- Parking
- Tenant parking on site, off the Colville Street frontage
One building, three lives
The building is stacked the way a day is. Trade and food at the pavement, offices in the middle, apartments on top. You can take space on more than one of them. Office and residential are separate leases, with the same landlord and the same phone.
Ground, level 1 and level 2
Street level
The trading floor of the building, reached straight off the pavement. South Supreme Airlines and African Express Airways keep their Kampala counters here. Oskan foods and Cafe Ola do breakfast through dinner, and PAX Insurance, a forex bureau, a courier desk, a photo studio and a salon are on the same levels, so staff and visitors can eat, change money and get an errand done without leaving the block. Street-front units carry signage rights over the pavement.
- Restaurants
- Salon
- Forex
- Airline counters
- Insurance
- Courier
- Shops
Levels 3, 4 and 7
The working floors
Offices in the middle of town, three minutes from the banks and five from City Hall. Suites come glass partitioned and can be taken as they stand or stripped back to open plate. Start with one suite and take the next one when you need it. Level seven is the top office floor and the only one that can be handed over as a single contiguous plate.
- One suite
- Professional practices
- Agencies
- Back office teams
- Head offices
- A whole floor
Levels 5 and 6
Springs Apartments
The residential floors sit directly above the offices, so the commute is a lift ride. Let furnished or unfurnished. Level six has the widest availability in the building and can be taken as a whole floor, which suits a serviced apartment operator or a company housing staff in the centre of town.
- Long stay residential
- Corporate housing
- Serviced apartments
What is free right now
Pick a floor to see what it is and what is available on it. Availability is confirmed floor by floor when you call, and terms are quoted on enquiry.
Street level Offices Apartments Space available now
Level seven
Offices available
- Every floor
- Lift access, standby power on the common areas, manned security day and night, and tenant parking on site.
- Fit out
- Take a suite as it stands or strip it back. Partitions, power and data are a conversation, not a fixed spec.
- Terms
- Quoted on enquiry, in writing, after you have seen the space.
What the building runs on
The things nobody asks about until the day they stop working.
- Lifts
- Passenger lifts serving every floor, maintained under contract by Kone Uganda.
- Parking
- Tenant parking on site, off the Colville Street frontage.
- Security
- Manned guarding day and night, with CCTV on the entrances and the lobbies.
- Standby power
- Mains supply with a generator behind the common areas and the lifts. Power into a suite is a fit out conversation, not a promise made here.
- Water
- NWSC mains with a tank reserve, so the taps stay on when the mains do not.
- Fibre
- Fibre into the building. The tenant picks the provider.
- Cleaning
- Common areas cleaned every day, waste collection under contract.
- Reception
- Manned reception and lift lobby at ground level, off the Colville Street entrance.
Where it is
Plot 2 Colville Street, off Kampala Road, in the commercial core. The banks are close enough that nobody has to drive to one.
- Kampala Road
- 2 min walk
- Stanbic, Absa and the ATMs
- 3 min walk
- Parliament Avenue
- 4 min walk
- City Hall
- 5 min walk
- Sheraton Kampala Hotel
- 6 min walk
- Bank of Uganda
- 7 min walk
- Kampala Serena Hotel
- 9 min walk
- Entebbe Airport
- 45 min to 2 hr drive
Walking times are measured from the Colville Street entrance. The drive to Entebbe is 45 minutes at six in the morning and closer to two hours in the afternoon, which anyone who uses the road already knows.
Three ways off the block
Most buildings in the centre of town have one entrance and one queue to get out of it. This one sits on a block you can leave in three directions, which is the difference between five o'clock taking ten minutes and taking forty. The parking is on site, so nobody starts the day looking for a space on Kampala Road.
- 1Colville StreetMain entrance and tenant parking
- 2Portal AvenueNorth side of the block
- 3DTB LaneWest side, through to Kampala Road
Enquire
Tell us what you need and roughly how much space. Someone calls you back the same working day to arrange a viewing.
What happens next
Your enquiry goes to the phone of the person who decides, not into a shared inbox. Expect a call back the same working day and a viewing at a time that suits you. Bring nothing. The lease conversation comes after you have seen the space.
- Address
- Plot 2 Colville Street
- Viewings
- Mon to Fri, 9 to 5
- Saturday
- 9 to 3