Property developers Mike Sullivan, Darren Ellis target $1b in projects by 2028, including Christchurch’s tallest new office block
Property developers Mike Sullivan and Darren Ellis, through their firm Countrywide Properties, have announced a $1 billion development pipeline by 2028. The projects include a significant 14-level office block in Christchurch, leveraging their combined experience in construction and large-scale commercial development.
Why it matters
This represents a major investment in New Zealand's commercial infrastructure, signaling confidence in the post-pandemic construction and office space market.
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Darren Ellis and Mike Sullivan outside the offices of Clearwater Construction, Mapua St, Greenlane, Auckland. Photo / Clearwater
The legacies of New Zealand’s great Wilkins & Davies and ASX-listed Scentre Group brought Mike Sullivan and Darren Ellis together.
Standing outside their newly developed $90 million seven-level Greenlane office project, a month off completion, the construction and development chiefs tell of how they met.
Sullivan’s steel business was putting product into Ellis’ Westfield jobs, hence the confluence.
But they’re casting their minds forward more than back, including plans to build Christchurch’s tallest new office block of 14 levels.
They have a target that their privately owned Countrywide Properties will complete $1 billion of development work by 2028, having been founded in 2012.
The two met via the property and construction industry.
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