The three improvement districts that manage the area encompass the area bound by Sandton Drive, Katherine Street into Wierda Road East and West, up West Street, along Rivonia Road and including the Grayston Drive. The three improvement districts are the Sandton City and Convention Centre Improvement District (SCMD), the Sandton Business Improvement District (SBID), and the Wierda Valley Management District (WVMD).

The Sandton Central Management District is funded by the commercial property owners and was established to ensure the creation of an exceptional experience of this key node of Johannesburg. It has been established for the employee, visitor, tourist, shopper, property owner and resident of Sandton Central and thus focuses on how this area can better serve these stakeholders.

Sandton Central is the thinking, enterprising, socialising centre of Africa. It is South Africa's cosmopolitan centre of trade and ideas. It is central to finance, fashion, smart new global idea and smart new global people. It is central to Gauteng, central to South Africa and central to the southern hemisphere.