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Scott Sartiano inside Zero Bond.

Photographer: Laurel Golio for Bloomberg Businessweek.

“Don’t mention the elephant in the room,” Scott Sartiano says on a Friday in March, standing on the carpentry-littered main floor of Zero Bond, his new private members’ club.

The pachyderm in question is a large, stainless-steel statue, which an artist friend just dropped off. Its future seems uncertain. Although not without panache, it’s maybe at odds with the muted grays and greens of the space taking shape around it.