Who We Are

Bond Street is a Cleveland-based developer whose principals, Todd Leebow and Justin Strizzi, are Cleveland natives and residents. We are incredibly passionate about our City, and excited to introduce our vision for community-focused, people-centric development to Gordon Square. We look forward to continuing to engage with the neighborhood, as sincerely value your feedback!

What's in the Works

Bond Street is transforming an assemblage of lots along Detroit Avenue into an activated and energized mixed-use community development. The mid-rise Project will include retail, co-working office space, and 126 apartments situated around a central public courtyard, with a 97-space below-grade parking structure.

Bond Street is highly focused on creating an attractive, community-centric mix of uses on the street level, bringing residential density to Detroit Avenue, and filling in the "missing teeth" along Detroit Avenue created by the current surface parking lots and vacant building that sit on the site.

As a result of many conversations Bond Street has shared with local stakeholders, and civic entities, the mission for the development is to create a truly inclusive project that is a catalyst for the continued evolution of Gordon Square - and to design a building that fosters community growth, delivers a new and active street level, and introduces retail tenants that fulfill the unmet needs of the surrounding neighborhood.

The Project will include new exterior public space, and expansive sidewalks along Detroit Ave to encourage pedestrian traffic and public gathering. The central courtyard may be used for public events such as farmers markets and art walks.

What's There Now

The site is an assemblage of seven parcels - four along Detroit Ave and three fronting Tillman Ave. The three Tillman Ave parcels, and one of the Detroit Ave parcels, are currently private, underutilized surface parking lots - as they have been since 1963 - with a tall chain-link fence cutting off access from Tillman Ave to the Property.

The lone occupied building on site is a Vietnamese market and a barbershop. The market also maintains a private lawn along Detroit that is, again, separated by a tall chain link fence along Detroit Avenue. The owners of the market and barber shop are selling their properties to the Developer and closing their businesses.

The southwest corner of the site consists of the now-vacant former Club Azteca building. Bond Street and former Club Azteca stakeholders engaged in many conversations over the past many months largely focused on how the legacy and history of the Club may be honored and acknowledged in the new project. The Club Azteca stakeholders will continue to play a role and further develop those ideas. We happily welcome community feedback on the matter as well!

What's Happening Next

The project team has gone through a number of design iterations in response to their conversations with the above-mentioned stakeholders, and the design presented here represents our collective acknowledgement of their feedback.

Bond Street is excited to deliver this project to the Gordon Square community, and believes the project will be most successful with the participation of, and engagement with, the public. To that end, we encourage you to subscribe for email updates on the project, and share your feedback or ask questions in our Feedback section!

We would love to continue hearing from the community - please use the Feedback section or request a chat directly with a member of our project team!