$25 million for an office fitout!

The Herald reports:

National is crying “waste” after Waka Kotahi – NZ Transport Agency spent $25 million on a fit-out for its new Wellington offices.

Questions to National transport spokesman Simeon Brown show the fit-out of 8700sq m of Wellington office space will cost $25m, or about $2870. That’s significantly higher than the roughly $1600 a square metre fit-out costs that got Kainga Ora in trouble earlier this year.

That’s an insane amount of money just for a fitout. Hell you can almost do a new build for less than that, and this is just a fitout.