# Istanbul Central Business District

Istanbul's Central Business District as the real estate industry refers to it, is not the historic city center, but a 7-km-long north–south corridor of modern areas mostly along Barbaros Boulevard and Büyükdere Avenue. As of late 2021, 33% of the Class A office space in the metropolitan area was located in the CBD, of which about 790,000 sqm in Maslak, 690,000 sqm in Levent, 500,000 sqm in Zincirlikuyu/Esentepe/Gayrettepe and 100,000 sqm in Etiler.
The Istanbul Metro's Line 2 serves the CBD's main north-south corridor, with Line 6 and Line 7 providing east-west service. In addition, Line 7 is to be extended southward from Şişli—Mecidiyeköy station to Beşiktaş ferry station.
The historic city center is in Fatih and contains historic sites, the Grand Bazaar and adjacent wholesale/retail districts, but is not a modern "central business district" in that it does not have modern retail formats, dense residential and hotel towers, etc.
These can be found in the following edge cities with concentrations of office space, shopping malls, residential towers, entertainment and educational facilities, hospitals, etc.
From south to north, they are:
| Symbols | hospital metro line military base | museum/monument office/ residential tower pier | planned or under construction shopping mall/area | stadium university | N neighborhood D district |
| WEST | WEST | | | | | EAST |
| N O R T H | | | | | | İstinye Park N Maslak, D Sarıyer |
| N O R T H | Skyland | Vadistanbul Vadistanbul Radisson Collection Rams Park Galatasaray FC N Ayazağa D Sarıyer | Seyrantepe | 3rd Corps/NATO Sanayi | National Defense | İtü Ayazağa Hilton Maslak Istanbul Technical |
| | Kağıthane  Merkez Kağıthane AXİS AVM | | | 4. Levent  Sheraton Levent Istanbul Sapphire N Emniyet evleri D Kağıthane (W side) N Konaklar D Beşiktaş (E side) | Le Meridien Etiler | Etiler Boğaziçi Üniv. Boğaziçi |
| | Çağlayan | | | Kanyon Özdilek Park Wyndham Grand Levent Hyatt Centric Metrocity N Esentepe D Şişli (W side) N Levent D Beşiktaş (E side) | Nispetiye Four Seasons Res. Akmerkez N Nispetiye D Beşiktaş | |
| | Taşçioğlu | Trump Towers Şişli Mecidiyeköy İstanbul Cevahir Marriott Hotels Radisson Blu N Mecidiyeköy D Şişli | Astoria Fairmount Kempinski Res. Profilo | Gayrettepe Gayrettepe Zorlu Center Mövenpick Raffles N Esentepe, Levazım, Balmumcu D Beşiktaş | | |
| | N Bomonti | N Fulya | N Otim | Fulya | | |
| | | Osmanbey Westin | N Nişantaşı American Hospital St. Regis Park Hyatt | Yıldız Technical Yıldız  Conrad N Yıldız D Beşiktaş | | Mandarin Oriental |
| | | | Congress Center Hilton Grand Hyatt Intercontinental Divan N Harbiye D Şişli | N Maçka D Şişli | | |
| S O U T H | | | Intercontinental Marmara Taksim Gezi Park Taksim Square Taksim | Four Seasons Beşiktaş Shangri-La Swissotel Dolmabahce Palace | Çırağan Palace Kempinski N Yıldız D Beşiktaş | |
| S O U T H | | | İstiklal Avenue | Kabataş | | |
| S O U T H | | Şişhane Beyoğlu (Tünel) Galata Tower N Berketzade D Beyoğlu (Pera) | Fındıklı Galataport Modern Art Tophane | | | |
| S O U T H | | Karaköy (Tünel) Karaköy Pier | Peninsula Hotel Novotel JW Marriott | | | |

## Gallery

* Trump Towers Istanbul, Mecidiyeköy
* Gayreteppe streetscape
* Etiler seen from Metrocity
* New Boğaziçi University metro station
* Above Şişli station
* Cevahir mall
* Bomonti skyline
* Zorlu Center complex
* Levent skyline seen from the Bosphorus
* Metrocity tower
* Kanyon mall
* Istanbul Sapphire
* View of Levent and beyond from Istanbul Sapphire mall
* Maslak skyline (2007)
* İstinye Park complex
* Süleyman Demirel Cultural Center at ITU
* Vadistanbul construction (2016)