About
Casey Bond.
Owner, general contractor, and real-estate developer - a world traveler and, by all accounts, one hell of a cook. Meet Casey ↓
The woman behind the warehouse.
Casey Bond is a hands-on real estate developer, owner, and operator dedicated to restoring and reimagining overlooked properties in Kansas City's historic Strawberry Hill neighborhood - the community she proudly calls home.
From a side hustle to a full-time calling
What began as a side hustle has grown into a full-time business built on hard work, curiosity, and a willingness to take on projects others often pass by. Casey has a knack for recognizing good bones and a lot of potential - transforming neglected buildings and vacant lots into places where people can live, work, create, and grow.
Owner, operator - and general contractor
As the owner of Strawberry Hilltop, a historic 68,000-square-foot warehouse built in 1910, Casey personally manages every aspect of the property. She also serves as the general contractor on many of her development projects, believing the best way to understand a project is to be deeply involved in bringing it to life. Every investment is backed by extensive research and careful planning before the work begins.
Beyond the buildings
Outside of real estate, Casey enjoys traveling the world, gardening, cooking, and taking on projects that challenge her to learn something new. Whether she's restoring a century-old building or perfecting a new recipe, she finds joy in creating something better than what was there before.
What success looks like
For Casey, success isn't measured by the number of properties she owns, but by the positive impact they have on the people who use them - and the neighborhood they strengthen. Her goal is simple: preserve the character that makes Strawberry Hill special while creating places future generations will be proud to call home.
Preserve the past. Build for the future.
A century of work. A second life.
When Casey Bond purchased the warehouse at the corner of 5th and Barnett, it had already stood for more than a hundred years - and it was tired. Decades as a working building had given way to years of neglect. Tenants had come and gone, the space, misused and worn down, had become somewhat of a neighborhood eyesore. What was left was a proud old building that had simply been let go.
Where others saw a liability, Casey saw bones worth saving - heavy-timber framing, solid masonry, and the kind of character you can't build new. The work since has been restoration, not reinvention: a sound roof, new windows and lighting, updated electrical, heat restored, and room by room, a building brought back to life. This is stewardship for the long term - not a quick flip, but a commitment to keep a piece of Kansas City history working for another hundred years.
More than square footage.
Strawberry Hilltop is being restored as a community - a home for makers, entrepreneurs, artists, and small operators who want more than four walls and a lease. The plan honors the neighborhood's immigrant roots: generations of families who arrived with little and built something lasting through hard, honest work.
That's the spirit Casey wants to fill the building with - tenants who bring vision and a willingness to build something together. As the warehouse comes back, so does a community around it: people who make, create, restore, and grow side by side, helping shape what this place becomes next.
Strawberry Hilltop.
The warehouse sits on the edge of Strawberry Hill - a historic Croatian, Slovenian, and Slovak immigrant neighborhood on the bluffs northwest of I-70, one of Kansas City's genuine hidden gems and a community now finding new life. The names are close, but not the same: Strawberry Hill is the neighborhood and its century of history; Strawberry Hilltop is the warehouse standing on the rise above it, carrying that name and that spirit forward.
The work happening here today.
The building is already home to a growing mix of tenants - Brothers Granite, a roofing operation, classic-car restoration, screen printing, an IT firm, and more. As space opens up, Casey is looking for the right neighbors: businesses whose work fits the building, and whose owners want to be part of something bigger than a rental.
"This building is almost seventy thousand square feet, so it's going to take a little time to get it to the level of where she wants it to be. But I can assure you it will be worth the wait."
- Dom Paille, ZenGroup, LLC
If that sounds like you, get in touch.
A building run by someone who believes in the work.
Casey is steadily restoring Strawberry Hilltop - wing by wing, tenant by tenant. If your work fits the building, let's talk.
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