Development
that heals
place
Veridian co-creates socially healthy, ecologically regenerative, financially thriving developments across Australia — weaving together community, country, and capital to build a future worth inhabiting.
ScrollBuilding what
the world needs
Veridian is a regenerative development company co-designing property projects, investment structures, and community governance with people and place across Australia. We believe social sustainability precedes environmental and economic sustainability — and we build accordingly.
Our ethos: to co-create socially healthy, ecologically sustainable, financially thriving housing and development that allows people at all stages of life to flourish and regenerate in their local communities and ecosystems. We have formulated principles for this — and we live by them on every project.
We are an emerging company, currently bringing three projects to life across regional NSW. Each is a living proof-of-concept for a different dimension of what regenerative development can be.
Three projects.
One vision.
Veridian is at the beginning of something significant. We have no completed developments yet — these three active projects are live, raising capital, and co-designing with community right now across regional NSW.
Boambee Creek
Eco-Resort
There is a creek on the mid-north coast of NSW that has been known, cared for, and sung about for tens of thousands of years. The Gumbaynggirr people have held this country through every season, every drought, every flood — a relationship so deep it shaped the land itself. Boambee Creek Eco-Resort begins there: not with a development brief, but with a conversation about what this place asks of us.
What we are building is not an escape from the world, but a doorway into it. Sixty-two eco-suites woven into 5.6 hectares of freehold land — designed to make guests more present, not less. Every structure oriented toward the creek, the canopy, the sky. Every dollar of the capital raise flowing into a model that proves ecological tourism and ecological restoration are not trade-offs, but the same thing.
This is also a statement about what Country can teach us when we stop trying to extract from it. The Gumbaynggirr partnership at the heart of this project is not a gesture — it is a governance principle. The land has custodians. We are joining them in care.
The
Chrysalis
Somewhere in the Bellingen hinterland, something is beginning. Not a development. Not a project, in the conventional sense. A becoming.
Six people are entering a five-year journey on 1.5 hectares of some of the most quietly extraordinary land in regional NSW. They will grow food and learn to read weather. They will make decisions together and disagree and find their way through. They will hold land not as an asset to be extracted from, but as a living system to be tended — and in doing so, they will be tended in return. This is how farming worked before we forgot. This is how community works when we let it.
The chrysalis in nature is a place of complete dissolution. The caterpillar does not simply sprout wings — it liquefies, reorganises at the cellular level, and reconstitutes itself as something altogether different. We believe this is possible for people too. That given the right land, the right structure, and enough time in genuine relationship with both, people can shed the story they inherited and grow into one worth inhabiting. The Chrysalis is our smallest project. It may be our most important.
The Sun Villages
Project
For most of human history, we built our homes together. Not out of ideology — out of wisdom. The village was the original technology for human flourishing: a structure that turned proximity into care, investment into belonging, and neighbourliness into resilience. Somewhere along the way, we were persuaded to do it alone.
Living Places Queanbeyan is a quiet act of reclamation. Co-founded by Stina and Garry Kerans — who have been building toward this for over four decades — the project asks a simple question: what if the people who live somewhere also own it together? What if your neighbour’s security were bound up with yours, and the return on your investment rose with the wages of those living beside you? The Sun Villages model answers that question with a structure that is financially sound, socially rich, and designed to outlast us all.
This is not an intentional community. There are no rules about how to relate. There is just good design — a village built to enable the kind of casual, frequent, unhurried human contact that research consistently shows keeps us well. The antidote to loneliness is not a program. It is a garden path, a shared doorstep, a reason to nod.
Development
is never neutral
Every project either extracts from place or gives back to it. We have chosen, unequivocally, to give back — and to structure financial models that make giving back the most economically sensible choice.
We believe business can be a genuine force for planetary regeneration and human flourishing. Our projects prove it through working numbers, grounded design, and genuine community partnership — not ideology.
Michael McElligott · CEO, Veridian
Social sustainability precedes environmental and economic sustainability. Every project begins with deep community co-design — genuine co-creation with the people of place, not box-ticking consultation.
Regenerative outcomes must be financially viable. We structure projects so the economics actively support the mission — using development returns, shared equity, and community finance to fund the work from within.
We ask Country what it needs before imposing a design. Each project responds to the unique ecology, identity, and community of its specific bioregion — shaped by listening, not templating.
Everything we build is designed to be learned from, replicated, and improved. Our projects are living proof-of-concepts — blueprints for the regenerative economy that other communities can adopt and adapt.
From vision
to activation
Our development process is grounded in place, transparent in finance, and rigorous in design. We work alongside communities, investors, and Country — not on top of them. Every phase is open and shared.
Before any design begins, we ask Country and community what is needed. We understand the bioregion — its ecology, its people, its history — as the essential foundation for everything that follows.
Community members, traditional custodians, local experts, and investors co-design the project’s structure, governance, financial models, and physical form through genuine iterative engagement.
We structure transparent investment vehicles — SPVs, community debt, shared equity — and manage planning approvals with rigour. Investors receive clear, honest reporting at every milestone.
We build, launch, and document — turning each project into a living example and replicable model for the next community ready to regenerate its place. Graduates become founders of the next chrysalis.
“Why can’t the building itself be a centre for regeneration? This building would not just be a centre for living systems and bioregionalism — it would be a living, beating heart of the regenerative movement in the region.”
Let’s build
something that lasts
Whether you’re an investor, a future farm steward, a landowner, a community member, or simply someone who wants to understand what’s possible — we welcome the conversation. All three projects have active pathways for involvement right now.
CEO, Veridian Developments
bioregionalinstitute.com
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the Countries on which our projects are located — including the Gumbaynggirr and Ngunnawal Peoples — and their continuing custodianship and connection to culture, community, land, sea, and sky. We pay our deepest respects to Elders past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded. This always was, and always will be, their Country.