Gordon McLeod joined The McEnery Company in 2019 and is focused primarily on commercial real estate brokerage, development, consulting, and project management opportunities. Gordon is primarily engaged in the sale and acquisition of opportunity zone and historic tax credit eligible assets. Gordon was the top producing agent for The McEnery Company in 2020 with over $16 million in closed transactions along with several notable project management and consulting engagements, including the Campus Development Plan for Trinity School and Church.
Gordon has personally acquired and developed a healthy multi-family and mixed-use property portfolio, having recently completed overseeing a mixed-use redevelopment of the former McDonogh 30 SchoolWYLD Radio Station building in the bio-medical district near downtown New Orleans. For the Schoolhouse project, Gordon received a 2019 Excellence in Construction and Real Estate Award by New Orleans City Business Magazine, and a 2020 Award for excellence in historic preservation from the Louisiana Landmarks Society. The project is also featured by National Park Service as one of 20 Select Projects for the 2020 Annual Report for Federal Historic Tax Credits, along with Wrigley Field and the TWA Flight Center, among others Press.
Gordon previously served as the Chief of Staff to two New Orleans City Councilmembers. He has been certified in the International Building Code, and is an expert in land use and planning policy, holding both a Masters Degree in historic preservation from the Tulane University School of Architecture and a bachelors degree in historic preservation and city planning from the College of Charleston. He is additionally a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at Loyola University New Orleans.
Gordon is the current President of the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans Board of Directors. He is also on the Board of the New Orleans Chapter of YPO NextGen YNG. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute ULI, and he and his wife, Kathryn, are also charter members of the Historic New Orleans Collections Caillot Circle. Gordon and Kathryn serve on several other local nonprofit boards and enjoy being socially and civically active. Gordon and Kathryn have two children and live Uptown.