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Skechers marketing boss drops $19M on waterfront Highland Beach townhome

7,300 sf townhouse includes full gym, game room and lounge with bar

Skechers’ Gary Patrick Drops $19M on Highland Beach Townhome

A photo illustration of yoga entrepreneur Ellen Patrick and 4513 South Ocean Boulevard in Highland Beach (Getty, LinkedIn/Ellen Patrick Yoga & Meditation, Google Maps)

An advertising executive for footwear giant Skechers dropped $18.8 million on a waterfront townhome in Highland Beach.

Gary Patrick and his wife, yoga entrepreneur Ellen Patrick, bought the townhouse at 4513 South Ocean Boulevard from MDM 217 FL, a Florida entity, records show. Wisconsin-based attorney Meghan Berndt signed on behalf of the seller.

Skechers’ Gary Patrick Drops $19M on Highland Beach Townhome
A street view of 4513 South Ocean Boulevard in Highland Beach (Google Maps)

Gary Pohrer and Nick Malinosky of Douglas Elliman had the listing, and Nancy Ghen of Coldwell Banker Realty brought the buyers.

Gary Patrick is a senior vice president and global advertising director at Skechers, the Manhattan Beach, California-based footwear giant. The company is one of the largest shoe brands in the country, and brought in $8 billion in revenue last year, according to published reports. Patrick’s wife, Ellen Patrick, is a yoga entrepreneur and breathing expert who also owned therapeutic salt rooms in New York City in the mid-2010s. The salt rooms have since closed.

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Records show the couple owns two other Palm Beach County properties. One is a condo in Boca Raton’s Sea Ranch Club that they bought for $1.9 million in 2016, and the other is an oceanfront house in Delray Beach that they bought for $8 million in August.

The couple’s new Highland Beach property last sold for $13.5 million in 2021, records show. It is a part of Boca Cove Highland Beach, a 42-unit waterfront condominium across the street that was developed by Steve Tebon and Seadar Builders, and designed by Randall Stofft Architects. 

Completed that year, the townhouse spans 7,300 square feet, with four bedrooms, six bathrooms and four half-bathrooms, according to property records. The townhouse includes a gym with a sauna, a game room, lounge, bar and pool, the listing shows. 

It hit the market for $21.9 million in September, according to Redfin.

Other recent luxury sales in Highland Beach include spec developer Pascal Nicolai’s $30 million sale of an oceanfront mansion in November. 

John D. Desprez III, CEO of Delray Beach-based InspereX, sold a waterfront home for $9.8 million in July. 

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