The center of the town, by the bazaar and municipal buildings, highlights a late Soviet-era style of structural design and color.

Large concrete structures painted in bright colors outline central avenues and plazas.

East of the central plaza past the Soviet-era concrete housing complexes, lie the mainstay of the Kochkor-Ata population.

It is one of the local stops along the Bishkek-Osh route, and thus maintains a daily flow of inter-and-intra related trade and small commerce.

The local marshrutka, public transport van, runs from the Kochkor-Ata avto-vaksal to other towns along the route, most notably: Massy, Bazar-Korgon, and Jalal-Abad.