Mark McGuinness of developer Willis Bond. Photo / Dean Purcell
He lives part of each week in Wellington, but works with his builder brothers and nephews to head a development business which has become a $1 billion-plus force in Auckland.
Mark McGuinness is part of a family-owned and managed, Wellington-headquartered builder and developer which took on Auckland and scored arguably
the city's best waterfront opportunities.
It's a surprising story, and the things McGuinness has to say about the difficulty of building on the waterfront, given climate change and rising sea levels, adds more interest.
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"I've got a place at Clyde Quay Wharf [in Wellington]," says McGuinness from his offices on level four of 12 Viaduct Harbour Ave, from where one of his family company's tower cranes can be seen on the horizon. The family home was in Khandallah, but it's little surprise that McGuinness' main residence is on the capital's waterfront, in a scheme his company developed.